“I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, ‘Twilight’ ruined the vampire genre,’” Pattinson told GQ Spain in a translated interview published this week. “Are you still stuck on that s–t? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy.”

Twilight star Robert Pattinson has a response for anyone who still wants to tell him that the franchise "ruined the vampire genre." In an interview with GQ Spain, the soon-to-be Mickey-17 star shared how he deals with this opinion almost two decades after the first film arrived.

Robert Pattinson has had it with the Twilight haters. In 2022, Pattinson told GQ he wanted to make Edward “as arty as possible,” which resulted in studio execs telling him he was being “too emo.” “We had this strange tension where the studio was scared to make things a little bit too emo and stuff.