Robert Pattinson met a ‘Twilight’ fan who thought he was quitting acting

With a DC franchise and films from Christopher Nolan, Robert Eggers and the Safdie brothers under his belt, some people will still always know Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.

The actor who made his breakout performance in the 2008 film adaptation of Stephenie Meyers Twilighthad a recent fan meeting with someone who thought he had taken early retirement after the five-film franchise ended in 2012.

In an interview with New York TimesPattinson recalled that an airport worker recently asked him, “Hey, you’re from him Twilight. Why did you stop performing?”

“I was like … ‘I’m Batman?'” he recounted. “She just laughed.”

Pattinson and Kristen Stewart starred as the 104-year-old vampire Edward and his teenage girlfriend Bella Swan in the book-to-film saga, which, among other things, New moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and Breaking Dawn — Part 2 (2012).

After making his DC debut as Bruce Wayne in Batman (2022), Pattinson is set to reunite with writer-director Matt Reeves for the sequel, which they intend to shoot in 2025.

Reeves previously gave an update on his plans to turn around Batman into a trilogy. “Yes, that is still the plan. I think it’s very close to the path we envisioned,” he told Collider in September.

“Things have changed. So when we came up with the idea to do The penguinit was something where I always intended to continue Penguin’s story and I wanted to tell this story of his rise to power,” said Reeves of the Max spin-off series. “Because we know he’s introduced Batman as a kind of mid-level, a kind of overlooked, mocked figure who is not yet in anyone’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as in the teachings.”

Reeves added, “And it was intentional because I wanted—while it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wanted the origin stories of these other characters, from the Rogues Gallery, and that story was originally going to be the entrance to the next movie.”