Zendaya revealed she was Team Edward in support of her The Drama co-star
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Robert Pattinson quipped that Team Jacob "was a marketing thing" for Twilight in a recent interview with a French media outlet
Pattinson played vampire Edward Cullen in the hit vampire romance franchise
Robert Pattinsonstill can't believe how anyone could be Team Jacob.
In an interview with French outletCanal+ahead of Pattinson andZendaya'supcoming filmThe Drama, a reporter brought up the age-old question surrounding the hitTwilightfranchise that launched Pattinson, 39, to stardom. In the movies, Pattinson's Edward Cullen, a vampire, competed with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, for the affections of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).
"I'm Team Edward all day, let's go," Zendaya, 29, answered.
After hilariously questioning if he himself was Team Jacob, Pattinson offered a witty response to the "Team Edward or Team Jacob" question.
"No one's Team Jacob," Pattinson said with a laugh. "That was just a marketing thing."
"I was," the reporter tells Pattinson in the clip, who jokingly replies "sorry" as Zendaya is heard laughing. "That's crazy," Pattinson adds.
"Yeah, I need to get, you know, the merch," Zendaya chimed in. "I need to get the whole thing."
"There's a revival ofTwilightat the moment," the reporter tells the pair, to which Pattinson replies, "I know, it's crazy."
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Pattinson's other recent co-star,Jennifer Lawrence, echoed Zendaya's Team Edward opinion in an interview withEsquirein 2025 ahead of the release of their filmDie My Love.
"Team Edward or Team Jacob?" Pattinson asked her. "In the books, Jacob," Lawrence, 35, answered. "In the movie, Edward."
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As he continues to build his resumé of eclectic roles, Pattinson said several years ago that he was still surprised at theTwilightfranchise's popularity.
"I mean, it's a weird story,Twilight. It's strange how people responded," Pattinson told Jennifer Lopez forVariety'sActors on Actors series in 2019. "They are very romantic, but at the same time, it's not likeThe Notebookromantic.The Notebookis very, very sweet and heartbreaking and stuff.Twilightis about this guy who finds the one girl he wants to be with, and also wants to eat her. Well not eat her, drink her blood, whatever."
"I thought there were definitely bits that were very romantic," he continued at the time. "But to me, I thought it was a pretty weird story. and even when I was promoting it, I was pretty open about how strange I thought it was when I was doing it."
The Dramahits theaters on April 3. Pattinson and Zendaya also have roles inThe Odyssey, out on July 17, andDune: Part Three, out on Dec. 18.
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