Robert Pattinson has proven he’s a seriously talented actor and is so much more than the vampire from Twilight, but if it hadn’t been for his role as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, we might never have known just how great he is.
The soon-to-be Batman star spoke to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and revealed he credits Goblet of Fire as a significant chapter in his career.
Speaking about the movie’s world press tour, he said, “I remember going to Tokyo for the first time and sitting in my room, looking out over the city and being like ‘How has this happened?’ It was really special and I really like that movie … I wouldn’t be acting if it wasn’t for that.”
Almost 15 years later, Pattinson is still acting and it’s all thanks to the role he landed when we was just 18 years old.
Cedric might have only appeared in the one Harry Potter movie, but it clearly gave Pattinson a taste for what his career could be and he stuck at it.
He also spoke about the environment on the set, saying it felt like they were at school, “It was a really nice environment on Harry Potter. Even compared to movies I’ve done since, it was very protected, the way the kids were treated. I’ve watched movies where you see a kid who’s got their tutor and it doesn’t exactly seem like they’re really going to school.
“I mean, it’s just kind of [like] they are fulfilling a legal requirement. But in Harry Potter, it was like they were at school and they were kind of doing work at the same time.”
Now, after years straying from mainstream movies, Pattinson will appear in two of the most highly anticipated films coming to cinemas – Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, and of course, The Batman.
Before the release of those films, Pattinson appears in The Lighthouse with Willem Dafoe, who apparently inspired the actor’s Batman voice.
Speaking with Access Hollywood, Pattinson revealed he was inspired by Dafoe’s drunken lighthouse keeper character when it came down to nailing his voice for the role as the Caped Crusader.
When asked if he’d been practising his Batman voice, Pattinson said, “Willem’s voice in [The Lighthouse] was quite inspiring for it, to be honest… It is pretty similar, the voice I’m gonna do, to Willem’s.”
He then offered a small playful growl as an example, before adding, “I think Batman has a sort of pirate-y kind of voice. I think they’re really suited.”
So, that should be interesting!