robert pattinson kristen stewart both starred in the corny big budget hollywood franchise that
made them famous and smaller more artistically respectable films now they've made their way
back into mainstream grace as two larger than life characters with legacies in both fiction
and real life that feel nearly impossible to fully honor batman princess diana
one cape and one crown pattinson and stewart have truly come full circle back in 2008 no one would
have expected their careers to turn out the way that they did because their introductions into
pop culture were overshadowed by consumerism and an audience of romance obsessed teenage
how long girls you guys all been out here waiting 28 hours
since like four o'clock since yesterday like around 9 a.m 11 a.m yesterday yesterday so
you slept so you've been here 48 hours yeah well how did you sleep on the floor
shallow source material further materialized into even more shallow films plus the production
values of performances were just not anything indicative of something that anyone involved can
claim as their best work it was uniformly mocked by everyone who was not swept up in the thrill of
author stephanie create a vision of sparkling vampires and socially awkward high schoolers
now i will give the films at least some credit for creating its own mythology and attempting a
historically inspired period piece in the form of the english colonials first encounters with native
americans and how that informed the long-standing feud between the vampires and werewolves
other than that i think this is the only thing i genuinely enjoyed in the films
moving forward creatively stewart found praise and her role as m lewin in 2009's adventureland
the overwhelming critical and commercial response was wow she can actually act and quite well at
that pattinson totally transformed himself to portray salvador dali in 2009's little ashes
this unique position that they're in at this stage of their careers will make
sense much later on when you factor in the fact that passion project after passion project
eventually it led them to the middle ground where their respective filmographies proved
two things one they can actually perform outside of box office smashes and two they can actually
deliver as actors with dedicated fan bases who clearly have not let up in their support but also
that box office part is pretty important their most recent roles have done quite well in theaters
their history of course doesn't just start and end at being former co-stars but also former
lovers and unlike their now cemented positions in hollywood as acting elite
it did not end up very well for them a romance that thrived narratively on screen and burst into
flames in real life only made fans relationship to their characters even more complicated
the younger the fan base the less separation between character and actor oh man
i feel bad because i don't feel like kissing you
get them
stars and real life lovers kristen stewart and robert pattinson all smiles there on
the red carpet but will their relationship survive a fling with a much older director
stewart now out with a stunning apology yesterday and pattinson so far silent shockingly it had
nothing to do with kristin's presumably unexplored sexuality as a now public and out lesbian it all
had to do with infidelity it was a tough hit for rob and several big names stepped in to help him
through the public embarrassment several critiques of stork came naturally as one would expect
but also critiques of director rupert sanders who worked with stewart on snow white and the huntsman
she was young and he was married it was a weird time for very public and intense
introspection to celebrities lives because it was at a time where stars were just starting
to use their public platforms to shut down such intrusion i gotta get the elephant in the room
out of the way what do you want your fans to know about what's going on in your personal life i i
like them i like my fans to know that cinnamon toast crunch only has 30 calories a bowl in it
scandal came during the incipients of the era of super fans who rallied online and support numbers
to choose teams it was like the real-life version of team jacob versus team edward only
fans did not expect that their on-screen bella would ever oppose rob in any way
young impressionable and quick to group think they only made things worse i think fans online
highlighting the abuse of power and age difference really saved stort's career
stewart has been candid in recent years about that tumultuous time in her life
and rob of course has since moved on and forgiven her not only were you falling in love with rob on
the set which by the way i think is the biggest mistake an actor can make there was nothing i
could do yeah it was just there was immediate chemistry between the two of you yeah like no
i've actually never been allowed to just say what happened right because i was so self-conscious
about seeming like an attention seeker like i was super aware that we were doing like a teen
movie and i had never done that before i'd done like very over serious kind of like dramas pretty
much my whole life and then then this i was like are we talking about what is that like it is a
so you did the huge commercial hit movies the twilight movies and now you have like six movies
coming out this year i think right six this year is that what i read yeah something like that wow
and they're all kind of smaller more independent movies that you've chosen
to kind of go to smaller films why is that just for the for the script itself um i've always been
really uh like the least tactful person and um so yeah no i i i've been rarely let down
by following my gut and sort of being drawn to creative endeavors that just feel right without
any explanation and they've been small and big like you know this movie that we're talking about
now or whatever um it was huge it's like a huge angley picture and uh yeah so i'm just kind of
all over the map moving forward by the end of the franchise both had a bevy of great performances
their roles now were a lot more publicized as they were praised
and they were now entering an era where they were not only nearing twilight levels
of fame again but displaying a level of talent that justified why the two
should have ever continued their careers after such trash performances in the first place
the playing field was now leveled we now can see roles that felt like a robber patents in film or
a kristen stewart film each project just made sense and they were brilliant in them this is
something that twilight had previously robbed them of now enter the era of a vampire playing a bat
pattinson as batman was overall ill-received and divisive for the same reason as batfleck
people were unsure if they could even act yes pattinson was gaining steam as one of hollywood's
favorite actors but the general mainstream audiences still only knew him from twilight
come 2020 at dc's fandom this was about to change once that first preview of him and the batsuit
dropped they could have all the ideas in the world about how you want to play something and you put
on the suit and you're like whoa i just it's just straight back to the drawing board immediately
now back to stort and spencer when you think of princess diana and an actress to portray her
you would not think of kristen stewart which is why she worked so well in this role
to feel so muzzled that you have to rip off your pearls and eat them at the dinner table in front
of your husband that's like not listening to you that is what it feels like sometimes if you're
going to transform transform like that her own brand image and accent was totally reinvented
when playing this role to the point where she looked like she had faded into the character
of something from a fictional universe and not just another great look-alike playing a person
it took a lot of introspection and imagination to really paint an accurate picture of princess diana
and kristen stewart's performance nailed it she brought her to life
and dignified her in the most human performance of the princess that we've seen to date patton
since batman was no different he is one of those several british actors that can nail a standard
american english accent no different than kristen store was able to nail a perceived english accent
they also agreed that pattinson played the best batman and uses bruce as an actual farce
bruce is more recluse socially awkward batman is always hanging on by a thread on the edge
he's not as inexperienced as year one but year two was still clearly rough for the dark knight
on top of that his portrayal is the first time you really get to see why he is called the world's
greatest detective both roles are reinventions for their characters and their careers newfound glory
the first real human being behind the crown and the first complete batman behind the cowl
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