14 DAY TRIAL // Robert Pattinson never made a secret of how much he hated being a part of the “Twilight” universe for how famous it made him. On one hand, he stopped having a personal life for about 6 years because of media intrusion, while on the other, he was always forced to attend events he didn’t like.
Speaking to NME to promote the indie film “Life,” in which he plays a photographer who gets James Dean to allow him access into his home and life, Pattinson muses on that old topic once more. This time, though, he’s being even more brutally honest than before.
No privacy
Pattinson never spoke against the “Twilight” films and he never came across as ungrateful for the chance that was given to him. After all, he said once, because of this franchise, he was now rich and famous enough to be able to pursue whatever project he liked, even if it wasn’t a paying job.
Plus, one gets the impression that he is simply too polite to say something that makes him sound like an ungrateful brat.
However, he’s cutting when it comes to everything else that came with “Twilight,” namely the media attention, the online hate he became a target of, being hounded by the paparazzi, having screaming fans chase him down the street, or having to do media rounds and attend events he didn’t like.
“I was watching the MTV VMAs the other day and thinking how bizarre it was that I ever did that [stuff],” Pattinson tells the publication. “I remember doing those awards and saying the dumbest stuff. And I was hungover for most of it.”
That is clearly not an experience he thinks fondly of.
The same goes for not being able to step out in public on his own without all hell breaking loose: Pattinson recalls he wasn’t able to go to the supermarket for about 6 years because of his association with “Twilight.”
Today, he can do this, and what’s more important, he can chat with regular folk about trivial stuff and not worry that they will end up selling the story to the tabloids.
Online criticism still gets to him
One thing that hasn’t changed for Pattinson all these years that “Twilight” has been out of his life is how much online criticism affects him.
He was never good at dealing with hate, and he will probably never be. Even today, he admits, he occasionally goes online, “to reinforce my negative opinion of myself,” and read reviews of his movies or comments to posts about his personal life.
Pattinson knows that the most hateful things he reads come from some “moron sitting on a comment board,” but they still get to him, he says.