Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but few would quibble with Robert Pattinson’s heartthrob status, the likes of which he’s more or less cast off over the last several years. The Twilight alum’s dressed himself down in a lot of his more recent roles, looking a touch grungier in indies like Good Time, The Rover, and the upcoming The Lighthouse, which finds him sporting a fierce, unwashed mustache. That changed yesterday, though, as Netflix dropped a trailer for The King that featured Pattinson in a luscious blonde wig that had fans thirsting over him all over again. Is it funny it’s happening in a bit of stony, straight-faced medieval fare? Sure, but we’re not complaining. Neither is the internet.
Others, meanwhile, are already resurrecting his Twilight years, calling out just how much his new look evokes Jasper or James, the villain hellbent on stalking the life out of Bella better than Edward can.
Is he gearing up for what will no doubt be a smoldering turn as Bruce Wayne? Undoubtedly. In the meantime, cross your fingers that Pattinson’s new mane delivers on everyone’s thirsting. No worries about his acting though; he’s got that covered.
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It was a popular look in the period.
I’ll admit that I enjoyed that movie even if it got a little too pretentious and Mila wasn’t great. That said, we’re over do for another Joan flick.
him and Kristen Stewart always look simultaneously both hot and the most exhausted. Twilight 5ever.
This is very true
Hot again? Rob has always been gorgeous. It doesn’t matter what his hair looks like, or what he’s wearing.
Does this generation of whippersnappers ever smile? They look like they haven’t had a decent shit in days. Vaping does thatHarrumph!
Hey there, AJ. What’s happenin’?
:::::Tips hat:::::Howdy! (BTW get on Succession and join the party)
That looks like a show that might make me mad.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and be totally entertained!
What reason is there to smile when the news is just what nobodies online reacted to a thing. But seriously, fuck off with your copy+paste list of tweets article submissions Alani Vargas. Everything you contribute is garbage.
I’m perfectly happy just reading about how much he hates Twilight and its fans.
Re: that first tweet calling Pattinson, as the Dauphin of France, a “villain”Tell that to the French.(In the plays the movie is based on they are very much the villains, yes)
i mean…. is he the bad guy? france didn’t really start the 100 year war, and they were just defending their homeland. Yeah, i get that the english king had a solid claim to the throne (although by the time henry came around, it was significantly weaker than it had been originally) but from a french perspective the english were vicious invaders who rolled in and spent over a century fostering war within their borders.
on the other hand, i’m hoping to see a solid battle of agincourt, which is one of the more fascinating great battles of history but is rarely shown because nobody wants to give piles of money to movie adaptations of shakespeare to show massive battles when the audience isn’t there for that. on the other, other hand, no Billy S. st. crispins day speech, so that sucks
I’m no historian, but I believe France started some war because of those tennis balls, so they’re the bad guys and Henry gets the French girl in the end. What an emasculating end. Yes, I slept through high school.
Henry V: “Hey France, check out THESE tennis balls.”
I think even that is layering too much modern nationalism over what was essentially a load of rich blokes fighting over bits of land that had little to do with our modern concepts of countries, and much more to do with what their family personally owned (or thought they owned)The King of France personally ruled very little of modern France, and to the Burgundians or the Bretons it didn’t make much difference which of the two Royal houses they paid their taxes to. It wasn’t until Shakespeare was sucking up to the Tudors that the idea of England vs France came into it.Plus, if Henry had overthrown the French king he’d probably have moved to Paris and ruled England from from the middle of his Empire as a cash-cow colony – so it’s a good job he didn’t!
Yeah, that whole period is not really good or bad guys. It’s a whole bunch of “divnely” ordained people playing empire games against each other. As you point out France at the time wasn’t even really France as we know it.
It’s hard for us to imagine in the post-Westphalia world of flags and anthems and such, I guess.
I always enjoy pictures like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia#/media/File:Holy_Roman_Empire_1648.svg
Really demonstrates the absolute fragmentation of territories, even in a nominally cohesive unit, in this case,d the “Holy Roman Empire”.
Well this millenial is ready for him to be hot for the first time
Trump is definitely watching this just to spite that cheating Kristen Stewart!
He’s a knight wearing a dark armor. A dark knight?
No. It isn’t. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
Screw Pattinson, I’m going to watch this because it’s got Joel Edgerton in it.
Jasper himself, Jackson Rathbone, made this observation:
Hot Again? Robert Pattinson has always been hot!
Seriously? That pasty little emo twit with his weird eyes?
He just looks like he wants to be punched in the face.