Kristen Stewart crashed Robert Pattinson’s 37th birthday party, the ‘Twilight’ director revealed.Photo:Charles Sykes/Bravo; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
Charles Sykes/Bravo; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
Robert Pattinsonturned 37 in May, and his birthday party became a surpriseTwilightreunion.
The 2008 film’s director,Catherine Hardwicke, revealed on Josh Horowitz’sHappy Sad Confusedpodcastthat she,Toni ColletteandKristen Stewartall “crashed” Pattinson’s birthday party earlier this year.
“Strangely enough, I ended up, I went to Rob’s birthday party recently. I kinda crashed with my friend Toni Collette, who had just done a movie with him,” Hardwicke, 68, said.
“We had a fun thing, and then Kristen crashed it too. That was just a few months ago, and it was just like, ‘Oh my God!’ We all hugged each other — like, this is so crazy and cool.”
Hardwicke said when Stewart, 33, walked in, she was shocked to see theTwilightdirector there.
“When Kristen walked into Rob’s birthday she’s like ‘Catherine? Rob’s birthday? What’s going on?’ I go, ‘I kinda crashed it with Toni.’ And she goes, ‘Well I crashed it too.’ ”
Stewart “rang the bell at the gate” and checked if it was “cool” for her to come, Hardwicke said, to which Pattinson “of course” welcomed her. “He’s such a lovely person,” Hardwicke said of theBatmanactor.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart at the ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1’ premiere in London in 2011.Ian Gavan/Getty
Now, Pattinson is currentlyexpecting his first child with girlfriendSuki Waterhouse, and Stewart isengagedto fiancéeDylan Meyer.
In 2019, Stewart said she and Pattinsonchose to keep things between them out of the spotlightbecause “so much was taken from us.”
“In trying to control one aspect, we were just like, ‘No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it’s ours,’ ” she toldHarper’s Bazaar UK.
Thinking back on the casting process, Hardwicke told Horowitz that the pair’s chemistry was “instant.”
“I could tell whenthey were doing the chemistry read— the biology scene — at my kitchen table. I saw the sparks were flying so much,” she recalled.
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and ‘Twilight’ director Catherine Hardwicke at the film’s premiere at the Rome International Film Festival in Oct. 2008.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
The director added of Pattinson’s performance during the chemistry read, “Right when Rob came in there was pretty much no contest because the two of them felt that connection so strong. I don’t think she felt it so strong with the others.”
It wasn’t all that surprising to her, though. “It totally makes sense because they’re both, like, so indie — indie music, indie authors, writers, films. I mean they had all that stuff together.”
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2’.Summit Entertainment
Summit Entertainment
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She also shared that Pattinson paid for a flight to the U.S. on his “own dime” and slept on his agent’s couch in order to audition for the role — and she said she thinks Stewart being cast as the lead was “why” he put so much effort in.
Hardwicke wasn’t shocked either when the costars took their romance off-screen and into real life, she told Horowitz: “You look at them, you feel it.”
source: people.com
