Robert Pattinson Jokes He Likes Taking Jobs from Younger Actors: 'I Want to Play 17 Again'
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Tommy McArdleNovember 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Robert Pattinson on Nov. 1, 2025; Robert Pattinson circa 2005 -
Robert Pattinson quipped in a new interview that he wants to "play 17 again" and would happily take a role from a younger actor to do so
"It would be great! I like taking jobs of younger actors," he jested
Pattinson's new movie with Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love, is in theaters now
Robert Pattinson quipped in a new interview that he would be happy to take a younger actor's job.
Pattinson, 39, and his Die My Love costar Jennifer Lawrence sat down for a video interview with Vanity Fair in which both actors were hooked up to a polygraph. During the sit-down, Pattinson discussed his Gen Z credentials when Lawrence, 35, asked if he would reprise his Twilight role as Edward Cullen if Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, whom Pattinson made the 2017 thriller Good Time with, directed a new sequel.
"Oh yeah, for sure," Pattinson said.
When Lawrence told him, "I don't think you should," Pattinson responded, "It would be great! I like taking jobs of younger actors. I do. I want to play 17 again."
"There's a movie — Zac's movie," he jested, referencing Zac Efron's 2009 comedy 17 Again.
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Robert Pattinson on Nov. 1, 2025
Pattinson began acting as a teenager and made some of his first film appearances before turning 20 in movies like 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The actor gained increasing fame in his early 20s for playing Twilight's Edward Cullen, an immortal vampire who appears to be a teenager throughout the film series.
During their discussion, Pattinson and Lawrence briefly debated whether Pattinson could be considered part of Gen Z. "I did think it was insane when you cold FaceTimed me and I was like 'it's crazy to cold FaceTime somebody,' and you were like 'No, it's Gen Z,' " she told him.
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Suki Waterhouse and Robert Pattinson on Nov. 1, 2025
"As in, I'm Gen Z," Pattinson responded. "Do you wish you were Gen Z?" Lawrence asked, to which Pattinson simply said, "I am." "You're not Gen Z, you're a millennial... I believe that you believe that you're Gen Z," Lawrence added. When she asked Pattinson what year he was born, he simply joked, "It doesn't matter."
The pair costar in Die My Love, a movie where they play a couple named Grace and Jackson who move "into an old country house," per an official synopsis.
"She pursues her dream of writing, and the couple welcome a baby soon after," the synopsis reads. "However, with Jackson frequently absent, and the pressures of domestic life weighing on her, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a path of destruction in her wake."
Die My Love is in theaters now.
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