The Batman star Robert Pattinson is tired of people criticizing Twilight, the franchise that kicked off his Hollywood career.

Robert Pattinson has had it with the Twilight haters. “I love that people keep telling me, ‘Man, Twilight ruined the vampire genre,'” Pattinson said in an interview with GQ Spain, as translated by The Hollywood Reporter. “Are you still stuck on that shit? How can you be sad about something that happened almost 20 years ago? It’s crazy.”

Robert Pattinson laughed off any continued hatred against the “Twilight” franchise in a translated interview for GQ Spain. The actor debuted as the vampire Edward Cullen in 2008’s “Twilight,” which launched a $3.

The first Twilight movie was released in 2008, if you can believe it. That’s nearly twenty years ago. But it seems like the Twilight haters have still not given up the ghost, or the undead sparkle vampire,

Robert Pattinson has reacted to the long-held criticism that the Twilight franchise had ruined the vampire genre for everyone. He is shocked that people are still talking about it nearly two decades later.

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