Robert Pattinson’s Intense Moment From Bel Ami Makes us Glad He Didn’t Quit Acting After Twilight Effect

From making the whole world cry with Remember Me to terrifying the audience with The Lighthouse to earning fans’ sympathies with Good Time, there is no stopping the phenomenon that is Robert Pattinson. The Hollywood A-lister is a gift that keeps on giving and the world is all the better for it.

After rising from the dregs of the movie industry and breaking out with his Achillean role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the actor finally earned total global infamy and a cult-like obsessive following with the supernatural fantasy romance Twilight in 2008. And despite the movie being a stepping stone to his eventual A-list success, Robert Pattinson never got rid of the embarrassment that the widely ridiculed film earned him, even 16 years later.

Robert Pattinson Scrubs Away His Twilight Reputation

Twilight is not an extraordinarily thought-provoking film with a plot that can show off an actor’s substantial skills. For some of Robert Pattinson‘s caliber, the film can only do more harm than good due to its cringe-worthy moments that make the audience question their own sanity. But given what we know now about the British actor, it is surprising how long it took for Hollywood to recognize his innate ability to rise as the next big movie star of the 21st century.

4 years after Twilight, Pattinson appeared in a historical romance crime drama adapted from the esteemed French author Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel Ami. As its lead, the actor not only delivered a spectacularly charming performance but also reveled in his shocking turn to the manipulative and destructive man by the end of the film. This results in a bone-chilling and harrowing moment in a scene commanded entirely by Robert Pattinson and a monologue eerie enough to make the viewer forget about his blood-thirsty role in Twilight.

Despite suffering from a depressive episode after Twilight, losing faith in his skills as an actor, and being afraid of going broke after being semi-exiled by the film industry, Pattinson stuck to his passion and worked his way up from small indie dramas like Map to the Stars to $772 million blockbusters like The Batman. Now, the actor has directors stumbling over one another’s feet trying to get him as their leading man in their next visionary project.

Robert Pattinson Earns Back His Reputation

Not many actors have had the pleasure of rising from perdition and reaching the uppermost echelons that society has to provide for them. Hollywood is an unforgiving industry and it rarely ever forgets its past transgressions and the two qualities combined can be dangerous for someone like Robert Pattinson.

The actor’s mortifying contribution to cinema with his (literally) sparkling role in Twilight has been burned into an entire generation’s retina – for better or worse. Now, the movie only exists as a cautionary tale for the new generation of actors and moviegoers alike. But despite the cringe-worthy past, Pattinson has done something unbelievable with his career – he turned it around so hard that fans wound up feeling the burn of a whiplash even 2 decades down the line.

Robert Pattinson’s acting career has been on the rise ever since his spider-monkey-teen-vampire part in the Stephanie Meyer YA adaptation. With each role since 2008, Pattinson delivered a haunting and unrecognizable performance, and the audience soon uncovered his chameleonic ability to change appearances, alter his accent, and completely modulate his personality to fit into a new role.

As expected, no two films have ever seen even an iota of similarity between their versions of Pattinson. Be it the psychologically tormented lighthouse keeper or the billionaire recluse dishing out vengeance on the streets, a disgustingly unholy and malevolent Reverend or a desperate brother with an unyielding love for his handicapped sibling, the Dauphin of French, or an evil colonel of the Empire, Robert Pattinson has never played the same role twice.

With Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 coming up, a sci-fi thriller with a comically high-pitched accent from Pattinson that will make the fans do a double take, one can only imagine what wonders lie if only one can attempt to look beyond Pattinson’s premature “mistake” with the Twilight franchise.

Twilight is currently streaming on Disney+.