Robert Pattinson on Twilight: It's about a guy who finds a girl he wants to be with and also wants to eat her

Robert Pattinson became more than just a household name when he starred as the sparkling vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight (2008) along with Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as Bella Swan and Jacob Black, respectively. The trio was immediately thrust into the spotlight as the movies became an important part of popular culture and life was never the same again for the young stars. A decade and more later, Robert and Kristen are happy doing indie movies and are slowly shifting back to doing big-ticket films as well with The Batman and Charlie's Angels.

While speaking to Jennifer Lopez for Variety's Actor on Actor session, Pattinson got candid about how the film to him was like a "weird" saga. Talking about how Twilight is a weird story and that it's strange how people responded to the movie, the 33-year-old actor shared, "I guess the books are very romantic, but at the same time, it’s not like The Notebook romantic. The Notebook is very sweet and heartbreaking, but 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, but drink her blood or whatever."

Furthermore, Robert quipped that it's not other people who are telling them that they can't be together, it's Edward's own body telling him that he shouldn't be with Bella.

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Pattinson also recalled that Twilight was a big risk before it attained cult status as it wasn't an "established thing."

"To me, Catherine Hardwicke who directed it had done this movie called Thirteen and this other movie called Lords of Dogtown, and they were like little movies. Kind of cool, hardcore movies. And Kristen [Stewart] was in stuff as well, like she’d been in Into the Wild, and it was kind of very indie," Pattinson confessed.