From his hilarious interviews to his unexpected career turns, Robert Pattinson has captured our hearts in ways we never expected. Join us as we explore the moments that transformed our perception of the actor from a sparkling vampire to a versatile Hollywood star.
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00:00But I know what I want. And so the only thing I can really do is try and make a movie which I think I would go and see.
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today, we're counting down our picks for the most endearing, charming, and finest moments Robert Pattinson has blessed us with throughout his career.
00:18Hey, watch it fellas. You got the prince of the city there.
00:24Number 10. His 24 hours interview with Vogue.
00:29Bonjour.
00:30Action.
00:32Bonjour.
00:34Spending a whole day with your favorite celebrity sounds like a dream.
00:37But while most of us may never get that chance in real life, Vogue's 24 hour series offers the next best thing.
00:44In 2020, the magazine shadowed Robert Pattinson for a day while he was in Paris to attend Dior's Fall 2020 menswear show.
00:51The six minute clip captured Pattinson chatting with Dior's in-house perfumer, trying out fragrances and sitting front row at the fashion event.
01:05It also gave us a glimpse into the actor's goofy side, which is equal parts awkward and endearing.
01:11We have just one complaint. Six minutes was not nearly enough time.
01:15Okay, have a delicious dinner. Meet some interesting people. I mean, it's not exactly a job. I should be paying to do this.
01:25Cut that bit out.
01:26Number 9. I am better than you seem from Good Time.
01:30Look, losers like you are incapable of taking care of themselves. You're either leeching off mommy, or leeching off welfare, or living off the government in jail. That's you!
01:38You don't know the first thing about me.
01:40Robert Pattinson shot to fame as Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga film series.
01:44While the role made him a household name, it also subjected him to a lot of ridicule, as many mocked his apparently stilted acting.
01:51Do you think I regret saving you?
01:53I can see that you do. I just... I don't know why.
01:57You don't know anything.
02:00However, a few years after the franchise ended, Pattinson silenced his detractors with a gripping performance in Good Time, where he played Connie,
02:08a desperate bank robber trying to bail out his brother.
02:11One standout scene features a tense argument between Connie and his criminal partner Ray,
02:16who challenges Connie's sense of superiority, only to be immediately shut down.
02:21I think you're better than me.
02:22I am better than you.
02:24You're an ignorant f***, bro. No one's better than any next man, alright? You don't know me from Adam.
02:30The scene spawned memes after the film's release, and showed how effortlessly Pattinson could shed his Twilight reputation and embody a complex character.
02:42To promote his film Good Time, Robert Pattinson joined Reddit for an Ask Me Anything session with fans.
02:47If you know anything about Pattinson, you know he's a goldmine in Q&A settings, and this one was no exception.
02:53After a bunch of disastrous press all day as well.
02:56Disastrous press? What do you mean, disastrous press?
02:59Banging out bad one, bad interview after bad interview.
03:01Well, that ends right here. This is gonna be a great interview.
03:04Pattinson gave a variety of humorous and candid answers, proving again that he's not afraid to give fans a peek into his personal life.
03:12He shared that rosé is his go-to drink, admitted his life outside of acting sucks,
03:17and joked that he only thinks about joining social media, quote, in dark moments.
03:21He always says, you're not playing me, stop telling people you're playing me,
03:26because you're playing a psychopath.
03:31If you hadn't noticed.
03:32In one of his more hilarious responses, Pattinson claimed that he doesn't get bitten by mosquitoes because his blood is toxic,
03:38a particularly ironic statement from a former on-screen vampire.
03:42And now you know everything, so get on with it.
03:50You are quite a soul reader yourself, Edward.
03:56Recounting his near-dismissal from Twilight.
03:58Twilight changed Robert Pattinson's life, but it turns out the actor was nearly kicked off the film before the saga even began.
04:05I mean, you got on set and you made a lot of, not demands, but a lot of thoughts about how the character should be.
04:10Always one to fully commit to every role.
04:13Pattinson initially took the part a bit too seriously, cranking up Edward Cullen's brooding nature to the extreme.
04:19Every single instance where my character smiled and stuff, it highlighted everything.
04:24So you put your foot down, you said, hey, listen, man, I don't see the character that way.
04:27I'm not going to be smiling.
04:28I got the same, I got a different color highlighter and highlighted all the time when he frowned.
04:31The actor revealed in an interview with Howard Stern that his approach clashed with the producers' vision,
04:36and his insistence to portray the character the way he wanted made them actually consider firing him.
04:41It wasn't until his agents flew over to the set to give him a much-needed wake-up call that he switched gears and brought a bit more range to his performance.
04:49You have to do the opposite of what you're doing now or you're going to get fired today.
04:53So how did you hold your ground?
04:54I mean, how did you know what to do?
04:55I didn't.
04:56I literally came back after lunch and was like, hi!
04:59I'm a smiling vampire.
05:00Literally, 100%.
05:05For all the charisma Robert Pattinson exudes on screen, he swears he can bore anyone in just two minutes.
05:11You must be flattered when they say you're the most beautiful.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Yeah, I guess.
05:16Yeah.
05:17I mean, but I didn't realize it was in order of importance.
05:20Like many other famous faces, Pattinson has dealt with a stalker.
05:23In his case, a woman who would wait outside his apartment for weeks while he was filming a movie in Spain.
05:28While other celebrities might call the authorities or file a restraining order, Pattinson had a uniquely different approach.
05:36He invited her on a date.
05:37Literally, I was, yeah, I really wanted to do something funny.
05:40I mean, there's something about trying to be funny that's absolutely terrifying.
05:45Whatever romantic fantasy she had in mind quickly crumbled, though, as Pattinson reportedly bombarded her with the most mundane details of his life,
05:53which successfully drove her away.
05:55We're not saying this is a foolproof strategy, but boredom might just be the ultimate repellent.
06:00It's a really weird story.
06:01But I think once it becomes mainstream, it's difficult for people to see how strange the story is.
06:07Number five, his Actors on Actors interview with Jennifer Lopez.
06:11Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lopez aren't names you'd typically associate with each other.
06:16Yet in 2019, Variety brought them together for their Actors on Actors series in one of their most unexpected pairings.
06:23If I was just going off to parts which seemed somehow relatable to my real life self,
06:28it would just be consistently playing just chronically insecure losers.
06:34He's not exactly the best career in the world.
06:37Surprisingly, the unlikely match worked in the audience's favor, offering insights into both actors as they discovered new things about each other.
06:45Pattinson in particular showed a deep appreciation for Lopez's work, even naming a lesser known film from 2000 as his favorite of hers.
06:53You know what I love of yours, which I think is such an amazing movie, is The Cell.
06:56Oh, thank you.
06:57The Cell is such a dope movie.
06:59Yeah, I mean, Tarsem is a real visionary.
07:02He also revealed his dream of featuring in a ballet movie.
07:05Not because he has any talent for it, but because he thinks there is a ballerina inside of him.
07:10Why, Bobby? Tell us why.
07:12I think there's just, I don't know, maybe there's just a ballerina.
07:15There's something fascinating to you about the world or being a male ballerina?
07:19I think there's just a ballerina inside of me.
07:21We eagerly await the Black Swan sequel starring Robert Pattinson.
07:25Number four, when he accepted the Best Kiss award.
07:29Oh, man.
07:31I feel bad, because I don't feel like kissing you.
07:36Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart dominated the Best Kiss category at the MTV Movie and TV Awards,
07:41winning a record four times for their performances in The Twilight Saga.
07:45By their third win in 2011, Pattinson seemed to be getting tired of their usual acceptance speech routine.
07:51Well, I mean, it's been a long time, and I think maybe we should finally go for it.
07:58So he decided to shake things up a bit.
08:00The actor joked that he and Stewart, who was his girlfriend at the time,
08:03were both fed up with kissing each other and wanted something new.
08:07There's someone else in the audience who I just think will appreciate it a little more.
08:11And I just want to do it.
08:14I think I know you will.
08:16Go get him. Go get him.
08:17He then bolted into the audience and locked lips with their Twilight co-star Taylor Lautner instead.
08:22The move caught everyone off guard, apparently even Lautner,
08:26a testament to the fact that Pattinson is anything but predictable.
08:34Robert Pattinson has gained quite the reputation for spinning tall tales during movie press tours.
08:39Perhaps his most infamous lie occurred in 2011,
08:42when he appeared on The Today Show with Matt Lauer to promote the film Water for Elephants.
08:46He can't finance his way through college anymore, and he has no practice to go to.
08:52He basically jumps on a train to be a hobo, and by accident it's a circus train.
08:57When Lauer asked if he had ever considered joining the circus as a child,
09:01Pattinson immediately responded with a dramatic tale.
09:04He claimed that his first circus experience was traumatizing because he witnessed the death of a clown.
09:09All right, I'm not letting that go.
09:11How did the clown die?
09:12His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him.
09:16You're being serious about this? Yeah?
09:18Though the story sounded suspicious, he insisted it was true.
09:22That is, until he casually confessed days later that he made it up.
09:26We adore the guy, but at this point, can we really believe anything he says?
09:30But how do you parlay that into longevity in this business?
09:35Who knows?
09:40When Twilight hit theaters in 2008, critics weren't exactly kind to it.
09:45But even their harshest reviews paled in comparison to the opinions of the film's star, Robert Pattinson.
10:00Over the years, Pattinson has openly criticized various aspects of the movie,
10:04but his most unfiltered remarks came during the DVD commentary.
10:08The actor mocked everything, from his own acting and the film's direction,
10:12to minor details like the unrealistic physics of a hurtling van,
10:16all while next to director Catherine Hardwicke.
10:19There wasn't many. I think people don't really want to watch either.
10:22Oh, no, Robert, I think that they do.
10:24They're all, like, pointing and laughing.
10:27He also admitted that one scene made him cringe so hard
10:30that he had to walk out of the theater during the premiere.
10:33If that isn't the most relatable reaction to watching yourself on screen,
10:37we don't know what is.
10:38You know everybody's staring.
10:43Not that guy, huh?
10:46No, he just looked.
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11:08Due to his association with the Twilight saga,
11:10Robert Pattinson's casting as Batman sparked outrage from fans of The Caped Crusader.
11:15Many doubted he had the grit to pull it off,
11:17but it didn't take long for Pattinson to prove them all wrong.
11:21What I'm doing is my family's legacy.
11:24If I can't change things here, if I can't have an effect,
11:29I don't care what happens to me.
11:31In the film's first major action sequence,
11:33Batman is given a powerful introduction
11:36as he emerges from the shadows to confront a gang at a train station.
11:40From his menacing footsteps to the aggressive punches and gritty cinematography,
11:44every element is designed to establish him as a terrifying presence.
11:48I'm vengeance.
11:58The scene is neither flashy nor prolonged,
12:01but it sets the right tone for the entire film.
12:04By the end, one thing is clear.
12:06There is no role Robert Pattinson can't master.
12:10Please don't hurt me.
12:22What is your favorite Robert Pattinson moment?
12:24Let us know in the comments below.
12:27It was very fun.
12:29I probably really embarrassed myself.
12:31But, I mean, it's nothing out of the ordinary.
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