Robert Pattinson Has Always Been Into 'Weird' Movies

Robert Pattinson has habitually been a little bit of a risk-taker whenever it comes to selecting the film roles he excels in.


Speaking to Jennifer Lopez as piece of Variety's Actors on Actors series, Pattinson talked some of the ways he's previously gravitated toward the more oddball roles in his career, including the somewhat "weird" story of Twilight, the outlandish vampire love story.


"It’s a weird story, Twilight," Pattinson said."It’s not just like – it’s peculiar how people responded a lot to it. I guess the books are very romantic, nevertheless at the same time, it’s not like The Notebook romantic. The Notebook is very sweet and heartbreaking, however ‘Twilight’ is about this guy, and he finds the one girl he wants to be with, and he also wants to eat her. I mean, not eat her, nevertheless drink her blood or whichever. It’s not that other folks are telling them they can’t be with each other, it’s his own body telling him that."


The Twilight series ended up becoming massively popular, and Pattinson's biggest role nevertheless, save for him taking on the cape and cowl as Batman soon enough. The actor looked back throughout the interview on some of the more "out there" movies throughout his career, claiming it's not piece of his "skill set" to know what a big audience wants.


That's why we continue to be able to see him in films like the "cool, hardcore movies" he referenced like Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke's films, like Lords of Dogtown and Thirteen. He noted that Kristen Stewart had also been in "very indie' films like Into the Wild.


One of Pattinson's latest films, The Lighthouse, follows this pattern as well, a monochromatic psychological horror film that follows two sailors as they start to slip slowly into madness.


"I have no idea," he insisted of his inability to gauge what crowds will like. However I know what I want, and thus the only thing I can really do is attempt to create a movie that I’d go and visualize, and there's a good chance there’s going to be at least one other person who’ll desire to be able to see it."