It’s wild to think that in a few years, we’re coming up on the twentieth anniversary of the first Twilight movie. While Robert Pattinson had been a semi-working actor for years at that point, 2008’s Twilight turned him into an international heartthrob. He became Sparkles, the sparkly vampire Edward Cullen, the pin-up of every sexually confused teen girl at the time. Rob hated almost all of it, but he tried to be cool about it and I always remember how gentle and polite he was with the teen girls who screamed and cried as soon as they saw him. That Oprah bit where he went to Twilight fans’ homes lives rent-free in my mind, because he genuinely wanted to stay and hang out. When the sequels started coming out, Rob often joked that Taylor Lautner would hopefully take some of the heat off of him. The studio really tried to make that happen too. Well now, all of these years later, Rob is breaking Team Jacob’s hearts all over again.

Robert Pattinson still can’t believe how anyone could be Team Jacob. In an interview with French outlet Canal+ ahead of Pattinson and Zendaya’s upcoming film The Drama, a reporter brought up the age-old question surrounding the hit Twilight franchise that launched Pattinson, 39, to stardom. In the movies, Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, a vampire, competed with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, for the affections of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).

“I’m Team Edward all day, let’s go,” Zendaya, 29, answered.

After hilariously questioning if he himself was Team Jacob, Pattinson offered a witty response to the “Team Edward or Team Jacob” question.

“No one’s Team Jacob,” Pattinson said with a laugh. “That was just a marketing thing.”

“I was,” the reporter tells Pattinson in the clip, who jokingly replies “sorry” as Zendaya is heard laughing. “That’s crazy,” Pattinson adds.

“Yeah, I need to get, you know, the merch,” Zendaya chimed in. “I need to get the whole thing.”

“There’s a revival of Twilight at the moment,” the reporter tells the pair, to which Pattinson replies, “I know, it’s crazy.”

Pattinson’s other recent co-star, Jennifer Lawrence, echoed Zendaya’s Team Edward opinion in an interview with Esquire in 2025 ahead of the release of their film Die My Love.

“Team Edward or Team Jacob?” Pattinson asked her. “In the books, Jacob,” Lawrence, 35, answered. “In the movie, Edward.”

[From People]

“No one’s Team Jacob. That was just a marketing thing…” is crazy work!! I mean, sure, all of the adults clocked it at the time and we went along with it too, because we knew that Rob needed a break from all of the Sparkle-fans. But yeah, no one was Team Jacob. Especially because Taylor Lautner was simply too baby-faced, too eager to be loved. Can I just say? I love that Rob still gets Twilight questions and he tries to answer them with as much grace as possible. He’s trying not to say the thing: “All of you are crazy, please stop talking about those movies!”

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