Robert Pattinson Had To Explain To ‘Twilight’ Fan That He’s Still Acting: “I’m Batman”

[ad_1] With a DC franchise and movies from Christopher Nolan, Robert Eggers and the Safdie brothers beneath his belt, some individuals will nonetheless at all times know Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.

The actor, who made his breakout efficiency within the 2008 function adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, had a latest fan encounter with somebody who thought he’d gone into early retirement after the five-film franchise concluded in 2012.

In an interview with The New York Occasions, Pattinson recalled an airport worker not too long ago asking him, “Hey, you’re the man from Twilight. Why’d you cease performing?”

“I used to be like … ‘I’m Batman?'” he recounted. “She simply laughed.”

Pattinson and Kristen Stewart starred as 104-year-old vampire Edward and his teen girlfriend Bella Swan within the book-to-film saga, which included New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Daybreak — Half 1 (2011) and Breaking Daybreak — Half 2 (2012).

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After making his DC debut as Bruce Wayne in The Batman (2022), Pattinson is about to reunite with writer-director Matt Reeves on the sequel, which they intend to shoot in 2025.

Reeves beforehand gave an replace on his plans to show The Batman right into a trilogy. “Sure, that's nonetheless the plan. I imply, it’s sticking very carefully to the trail we envisioned,” he advised Collider in September.

“Issues form of shifted. So, once we got here up with the thought to do The Penguin, that was one thing the place I had at all times supposed to proceed Penguin’s story, and wished to inform this story of his starting of rise to energy,” stated Reeves of the Max spin-off collection. “As a result of we all know that he’s launched in The Batman as a form of mid-level, type of missed, mocked determine, who’s not but in anybody’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as within the lore.”

Reeves added, “And so, that was deliberate as a result of I wished— whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wished the origin tales of those different characters, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was initially going to be the entrée into the following film.”