
Ultimately, though, his scenes vanished from the final cut of the movie – a decision he remained unaware of until attending its screening. He acted alongside the star of the historical drama, Reese Witherspoon, playing her teenage son. While Goblet of Fire is his first movie credit, the first part he landed was in an earlier film – 2004’s Vanity Fair. “At the end, I got so cocky that I would take the entire rack.” Naughty, naughty. I was in my school uniform when I was doing it, and it was kind of risky,” he recalls sheepishly. “I used to go in and take, like, one or two, and then put them in my bag. Pattinson was soon expelled, however, for a rather shocking misdemeanour he was caught stealing pornographic magazines and then selling them to his schoolmates. The family was wealthy enough to send their only son to the prestigious Tower House School, an independent prep school whose alumni include fellow thespian Tom Hardy, comedian Jack Whitehall and journalist Louis Theroux.

His mother, Clare, was a booker at a modelling agency, and his father, Richard, a vintage car dealer. Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson – to give the actor his full name – was born in London on as the youngest of three children. To celebrate Pattinson’s coup in landing the role, we delve into some of the lesser-known facts about the latest Dark Knight… Yet, the soon-to-air movie has already garnered much anticipation from DC Comics fans and is intended as the opening salvo in a new Batman trilogy. And it is precisely this ability to switch mindsets and mannerisms with apparent ease that has won him such favour in Tinseltown and beyond.Īlthough the 35-year-old has gracefully transitioned from child actor to teen heartthrob to full-fledged leading man, given his slender frame and almost feminine features, few could have guessed that he would replace Ben Affleck as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming The Batman film, beating out such other Hollywood heavy-hitters as Nicholas Hoult and Armie Hammer. Such is the chameleonic, ever-changing face of Robert Pattinson in a wide range of genres. Whatever your first exposure to the talented British thespian, chances are – barring role reprisals – you’ll never see the like from him again. Or perhaps you latterly stumbled over him in the most recent film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished horror novel The Lighthouse alongside Willem Dafoe. Maybe you swooned over his portrayal of brooding vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight series (2008-2013). Rowling’s Harry Potter anthology as budding wizard Cedric Diggory. Perhaps you discovered him in the 2005 fourth cinematic instalment of J.K. Robert Pattinson has been around for a while.
