Robert Pattinson Reveals He ‘Ran Out’ of ‘Harry Potter’ Money Before Starring in ‘Twilight’

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A star is born! Robert Pattinson landed his first major role in the Harry Potter franchise, but by the time he got involved in the Twilight saga, which would catapult him to superstardom, money was tight.“I spent a lot of time living off the Harry Potter money,” the Batman star, 35, explained in a GQ YouTube video published on Tuesday, February 8. “I moved to an apartment in Soho in London.”The England native thought his next role would be on the stage. “I really thought I was gonna do music at that point,” he added. “I don’t know where I had the kind of belief in that ‘cause there was absolutely no one saying that there’s a kind of music career on the table, but I was doing a lot of gigs all the time.

I was constantly doing open mics all the time, and then I ran out of money basically. It was definitely going the wrong direction in terms of a career up until Twilight.”Pattinson played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth film in the franchise, which was released in November 2005.

The new thespian was quickly introduced to an entirely new world that required special preparations on his part.“I remember the first scene I ever shot on that was in the magical maze at the end, and I’d never done anything with special effects and stunts, and it was a big deal at the time.

It felt very, very intimidating,” he recalled.Pattinson prepared by reading a book on method acting that advised actors to get physical before a scene.