{"id":2346855,"date":"2026-03-26T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2346855"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:20:30","slug":"robert-pattinson-jokes-no-ones-team-jacob-20-years-after-twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robert-pattinson-jokes-no-ones-team-jacob-20-years-after-twilight\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Pattinson jokes &#8216;no one&#8217;s Team Jacob&#8217; 20 years after &#8216;Twilight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/03\/USAT\/86506219007-edward-cullen.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Catherine Hardwicke on Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart&#8217;s chemistry<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the book&#8217;s 20th anniversary, &#8220;Twilight&#8221; director Catherine Hardwicke recalls the chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/01\/26\/robert-pattinson-twilight-criticism-vampires\/77959295007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/01\/26\/robert-pattinson-twilight-criticism-vampires\/77959295007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Pattinson,<\/a> there is no &#8220;Team Jacob.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2025\/10\/05\/twilight-movies-oral-history\/86338788007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2025\/10\/05\/twilight-movies-oral-history\/86338788007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">onetime &#8220;Twilight&#8221; leading man<\/a>, who played vampiric heartthrob Edward Cullen in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/10\/31\/twilight-anniversary-screening-review\/87006355007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/10\/31\/twilight-anniversary-screening-review\/87006355007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephenie Meyer adaptation<\/a>, said in a recent interview that a debate over who was better, his character or Taylor Lautner&#8217;s werewolf Jacob, was contrived.<\/p>\n<p>In the film series, Jacob was also vying for the heart of leading lady Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). The Team Jacob vs. Team Edward debate animated an army of teens (and some adults) during <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/entertainthis\/2019\/04\/03\/robert-pattinson-no-longer-hates-twilight-has-warm-memories\/3349101002\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/entertainthis\/2019\/04\/03\/robert-pattinson-no-longer-hates-twilight-has-warm-memories\/3349101002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the film franchise&#8217;s heyday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">&#8216;Twilight&#8217; star Robert Pattinson <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/01\/26\/robert-pattinson-twilight-criticism-vampires\/77959295007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bites back at criticism movies &#8216;ruined the vampire genre&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During a press tour promoting his new film &#8220;The Drama,&#8221; Pattinson and his costar, Zendaya, were asked which team they were on. &#8220;I&#8217;m Team Edward all day, let&#8217;s go,&#8221; Zendaya, 29, told an interviewer for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/canalplus\/status\/2036712096570732814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2036712096570732814%7Ctwgr%5E03c86335761eac74666b632ecfa6184046bb0b4f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Fx.com2Fcanalplus2Fstatus2F20367120965707328143Fref_src3Dtwsrc255Etfw257Ctwcamp5B25E2258025A65Dnson-jokes-there-is-no-team-jacob-says-it-was-a-marketing-thing252Fid%3Dmntl-sc-block_14-0-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D11934692\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/canalplus\/status\/2036712096570732814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2036712096570732814%7Ctwgr%5E03c86335761eac74666b632ecfa6184046bb0b4f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Fx.com2Fcanalplus2Fstatus2F20367120965707328143Fref_src3Dtwsrc255Etfw257Ctwcamp5B25E2258025A65Dnson-jokes-there-is-no-team-jacob-says-it-was-a-marketing-thing252Fid%3Dmntl-sc-block_14-0-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D11934692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">French outlet Canal +<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one&#8217;s Team Jacob,&#8221; Pattinson quipped. &#8220;That was just a marketing thing.&#8221; When the interviewer shot back that she, in fact, was Team Jacob, the &#8220;Die My Love&#8221; actor, 39, laughingly responded &#8220;sorry&#8221; and &#8220;that&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I need to get, you know, the merch,&#8221; Zendaya added. &#8220;I need to get the whole thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">&#8216;Twilight&#8217; oral history: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2025\/10\/05\/twilight-movies-oral-history\/86338788007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Behind-the-scenes movie secrets from the saga&#8217;s actors, crew<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Pattinson has had a complicated emotional relationship with the role that made him famous, once joking <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/news\/robert-pattinson-twilight-reunion-1202934191\/\">to\u00a0Variety<\/a>\u00a0that he &#8220;stopped mentally progressing around the time when I started doing those movies,&#8221; he has since developed a soft spot for the films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a fascinating second wave of people appreciating it, which is kind of cool,&#8221; he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/entertainthis\/2019\/04\/03\/robert-pattinson-no-longer-hates-twilight-has-warm-memories\/3349101002\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/entertainthis\/2019\/04\/03\/robert-pattinson-no-longer-hates-twilight-has-warm-memories\/3349101002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told USA TODAY<\/a> in 2019. &#8220;I think when anything becomes a massive phenomenon, there&#8217;s always people who get annoyed because it&#8217;s just everywhere. But now it seems like a retro thing: the soundtrack, the fashion. It&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s so late 2000s.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the only scary part was right in the thick of it all, when it was very, very intense. Now the intensity has died down and it&#8217;s just very warm memories,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Hardwicke on Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart&#8217;s chemistry In honor of the book&#8217;s 20th anniversary, &#8220;Twilight&#8221; director Catherine Hardwicke recalls the chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. 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