So maybe their skin doesn't sparkle anymore, and they seem to have lost their yellow eyes
- but a lot of time has passed since we last saw the cast of Twilight in full vampire mode.
Here's what they look like today, and what they've been up to since hanging up their
fangs.
Once upon a time, Kristen Stewart was absolutely despised by critics, with people clamouring
to declare she was little more than a one-dimensional actress - all thanks to the Twilight saga.
As it turns out, the Twilight star is having the last laugh, since she hasn't stopped working
since the franchise came to a close.
Riding the coattails of her success as Bella Swan, Stewart went on to star as Snow White
in 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman.
Her personal life then took a hit when she was caught cheating on Robert Pattinson with
the director of Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders.
In a move that shattered the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere, Stewart then found herself
gravitating towards indie roles, out of the limelight of Hollywood.
She was the first American to win the coveted French César Award for her role in Clouds
of Sils Maria - the equivalent to an American Oscar.
As she gushed to The Hollywood Reporter:
Besides her work as an actress, Stewart has also made her mark in the fashion world as
well, becoming the face of Chanel perfume.
Stewart's also currently working on her directorial feature debut, an adaptation of a 2011 memoir
called The Chronology of Water.
Much like Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson had some trouble shaking off his Twilight
image, even as he set his sights on indie projects that ought to have given him some
cred.
David Michôd, director of 2014 Aussie dystopian drama The Rover, ended up casting Pattinson
in a major role for the film, but even he admitted he didn't know what to expect.
"I thought he was gonna be some kinda teen heartthrob franchise guy, and he was not what
I was expecting.
I didn’t even know that he was English."
Pattinson's next successful venture was 2017's Good Time, directed by the Safdie brothers.
And that indie flick fared so well, it even got some famous names gushing about it.
"It's the best movie ever made, yes.
I am here to promote Good Time.”
“His movie that’s already out?”
“Yeah, no, it's so good!”
So, did the Twilight alum manage to rid himself of his brooding vampire image?
As Benny Safdie told The Guardian:
Unfortunately for Pattinson, some critics just can't seem to get past his early work.
With news that the actor is set to star as the next Batman, some fans have made a point
of displaying their disappointment, even going as far as to launch a petition against his
casting.
It would have made sense for Taylor Lautner to have enjoyed the same successes as his
two Twilight co-stars.
Lautner, who once famously committed to gaining 30 pounds of muscle to reprise his role as
Jacob Black in the Twilight sequel, New Moon, had teen girls everywhere wanting a piece
of the buff werewolf.
As it turns out, however, he didn't quite have the same luck with the next few characters
he chose.
His immediate follow-up role to the blockbuster franchise was 2011's Abduction, which turned
out to be a total bust.
After that, things in Tinseltown turned a little sour.
As one producer told The Hollywood Reporter:
What Lautner did next was unthinkable: he ditched his ever-declining Hollywood wolfpack
and swam across the pond - into the dry land of English comedy.
Taking over for Andy Samberg in the BBC Three comedy series Cuckoo, the world finally found
out that Lautner is, in fact, a pretty funny guy.
After sticking around on the show from 2014 until the end of 2018, Lautner finally left
the series, although admitted in a statement:
Peter Facinelli saw steady work as an actor after the Twilight saga ended.
In fact, he took one role that did wonders for his career - his guest part on Fox's musical
comedy show, Glee.
The actor revealed to Hollywood Life that the fanbase was pretty similar to that of
the vampire series.
He said:
Learning how to appeal to his younger fanbase with Twilight and Glee, Facinelli played to
type in 2015, when he found work on CW's Supergirl, but only remained on that show for a year.
His next move was stepping behind the camera for 2018's Breaking & Exiting.
The actor-turned-director admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that the directing experience
was "nerve-wracking."
He explained:
Ever since playing vampire Esme Cullen in Twilight, Elizabeth Reaser has refused to
give up all things macabre.
The star appeared in 2017's Discovery Channel miniseries Manhunt: Unabomber, based on the
disturbing true story of convicted domestic terrorist, Ted Kaczynski.
Speaking to Moviefone, Reaser gushed about her love of darker projects, admitting:
Reaser also admitted she might be slightly typecast for darker roles - because of her
face.
She explained:
Lucky for the Twilight alum, her brooding face books her plenty of gigs.
In 2018, she joined Netflix's creepy hit The Haunting of Hill House, playing mortician,
Shirley Crain.
Reaser called her character "unapologetically angry" in an interview with Syfy.
She said:
Much like Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene headed across the pond for some UK-based fun away
from Hollywood.
The actress landed a lead role alongside Scott Adkins in the English action-crime flick Accident
Man, based on a character from a British '90s comic called Toxic!.
Greene then returned to America to join the cast of the YouTube web series Step Up: High
Water.
Her role on that show is definitely a far cry from the loveable Alice Cullen.
Speaking to Access Hollywood about her character, Nine, she revealed:
Jackson Rathbone dabbled in a number of different ventures after playing Jasper Hale in the
Twilight saga, but he has no delusions about where all that good career fortune is rooted.
Opening up to Newsweek, the actor said:
While some actors from the franchise have openly expressed their dislike of the Twilight
movies, Rathbone has shown no hard feelings.
He explained:
Since the saga ended, Rathbone has picked some more meaningful roles, such as starring
in 2017's true story Heart, Baby.
The actor played Doc, a fellow prisoner to George Lee Martin, the boxer who is offered
the opportunity at freedom in exchange for fighting at the 1984 Olympic Games.
Like his character in Heart, Baby, Rathbone himself is also a musician, and debuted his
solo album, American Spirit Blues, in 2018.
After playing the most intimidating member of the Cullen clan Emmett Cullen, Kellan Lutz
landed a bunch of other burly Hollywood roles.
2013 saw him flexing his cartoon muscles in a 3D rendition of Tarzan, with the actor revealing
that he enjoyed taking a part which didn't require some of the preparation needed for
live action roles.
"And there's no hair and makeup, which is amazing, because I’ve done years of that.
Doing motion capture is just a blessing."
After hanging up his animated loincloth, Lutz took on another heroic character: the titular
role in 2014's The Legend of Hercules.
Although there's clearly a bit of typecasting going on here, the hunky star doesn't mind
at all.
Speaking to Reuters, Lutz explained:
The actor did go on to mention, however, that he'd love to have a career like Matt Damon
- who's taken dramatic and comedic roles as well as action ones.
Not all of the Twilight alums continued with a streak of successful Hollywood flicks.
Nikki Reed, who played the alluring Rosalie Hale, found herself in a string of flops - forcing
her to get crafty with her success.
In the end, she found her calling recycling computer motherboards.
The actress-turned-designer started her own sustainable lifestyle brand, Bayou With Love,
which extracts precious metals such as gold from old computer equipment, recycling them
into jewelry in collaboration with Dell.
Reed explained to People magazine that more than 60 million dollars' worth of gold and
silver gets disposed of in landfills every year, with much of it being thrown out as
part of old computer motherboards.
Instead of letting all that go to waste, her company retrieves it, recycles it, and makes
something beautiful out of it.
Besides making trash look fab, the actress has also become an ambassador for the plant-based
baby food delivery service, Raised Real.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reed was inspired to work with the brand thanks
to her baby daughter, Bodhi.
So, how does she and her actor husband, Ian Somerhalder, balance their busy life?
Reed told Us Weekly:
In terms of sheer success since the end of the Twilight days, Anna Kendrick sits right
up there with co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
She's done so well for herself that she once even jokingly tweeted that she forgot she
was ever in the series.
The bubbly star has certainly kept busy since the franchise, landing a slew of film credits,
the most notable of which include the Pitch Perfect movies and Into the Woods.
Both films rely heavily on music and singing, and as Kendrick once discussed in an interview
with Collider, she actually has a background in music theatre.
She said:
Although Kendrick took on a far more traditional role as Cinderella in Disney's Into The Woods,
the star stands behind the notion that it's a feminist interpretation of the classic tale.
She explained to Vulture:
Another notch on her hugely successful belt?
Kendrick also wrote Scrappy Little Nobody, a memoir and collection of autobiographical
essays about her own life.
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