Robert Pattinsonapparently doesn’t think he’s interesting enough for Instagram.
The famously private actor, who has stayed away from all social media platforms, gave anin-depth interview to theNew York Timeswhere he talked about his career and the overwhelming fame that followed his breakout role in theTwilightseries.
But now that he’s back to making big movies — including a starring role in the upcomingThe Batman— Pattinson, 33, said he’s not worried about returning to that level of public attention.
“People don’t really mess with me in the same way now that I’m older,” he said. “When I was younger, the paparazzi would be crazy to me — I’d be leaving a place, and people would be screaming abuse — but I can’t imagine it going back to that. Do people really care anymore? The gossip magazines have all kind of gone away, and everyone just puts their stuff on Instagram anyway.”
But when the interviewer pointed out that he doesn’t have an Instagram, Pattinson had a hilarious response.
“I’m old and boring. And I only have abs, like, two weeks a year,” he joked.
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“I completely forgot, but the soundtracks were quite ahead of their time,” he said.
He and hisTwilightcostar Kristen Stewart faced massive media attention over their on-screen and off-screen relationship at the time.
“It’s lovely now that the mania is not so intense,” he said. “People come up [to me] and just have very fond memories of it. It’s a really sweet thing. I think the only scary part was right in the thick of it all when it was very, very intense.”
He added, “Now the intensity has died down and it’s just very warm memories.”
Pattinson also shared his surprise as to how the film has withstood the test of time, saying, “It seems like with younger people in their late teens, early 20s, it’s sort of become quite a hip thing to like.”
“It’s a fascinating second wave of people appreciating it, which is kind of cool,” he continued. “I think when anything becomes a massive phenomenon, there’s always people who get annoyed it’s just everywhere. But now it seems like a retro thing: the soundtrack, the fashion. It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s so late 2000s.’”
source: people.com
