“Then I sent it over to Summit, and then he went over to meet them,” Catherine Hardwicke revealed. “They called me back and go, ‘Do you think you can make this guy look good?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I do. Did you see his cheekbone? Here’s a photograph. We’re doing a makeover on the hair. … He’s gonna start working out, and he’s gonna be gorgeous.’ But they didn’t believe it at first. He walked over there, I think, with a stained shirt.”
Knowing what we all know about Robert Pattinson’s very specific eccentricities, this isn’t totally surprising. As the latest actor to pick up the Caped Crusader’s black cowl, Pattinson did a totally bizarre interview in the lead-up to “The Batman,” where he was clearly suffering from COVID quarantine-related frustrations. In that interview, he made upsetting pasta, told the outlet that he’d stopped working out in advance of filming, and was just generally a weird, weird man. The fact that he didn’t take his “Twilight” audition seriously — especially considering the disdain he’d gain for Edward Cullen later on — isn’t exactly a huge shocker.
