Now that we’re years removed from the Twilight franchise, I have to admit I have surprisingly similar feelings about both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Like, I enjoy them both. I want both of them to do well. I want both of them to find their place in the Hollywood ecosystem. And I am happy to see that both of them play around with Oscar campaigns. For Kristen, she did some hustling for The Clouds of Sils Maria – she didn’t get nominated for much of anything in America, but she did win a Cesar Award. For Sparkles, he’s gone deep into offbeat indie films, and he seems happy there. His work in Good Time was widely praised by critics, and Sparkles has been playing the game, doing press and showing up to some events in the hopes of helping out his Oscar chances (these photos are from the GQ Men of the Year event last week). While he didn’t get nominated for a Golden Globe, Rob and the film were nominated for multiple Independent Spirit Awards, and a handful of critics’ awards too.
Part of the sparkly hustle? This actor-on-actor Variety interview he did with Jamie Bell. So many of these one-on-one videos have been terrible and very “your farts smell like roses” actor-on-actor bullsh-t. While there’s a little bit of that between Jamie and Rob, you can also tell that they are actually friends and they both seem relaxed with each other.
Meanwhile, Rob has been flying single and solo for a few months following his split with FKA Twigs. Or has he been single?? Us Weekly says that he was holding hands with a mystery blonde:
Moving on? Robert Pattinson was spotted with a mystery blonde woman after his split from FKA twigs, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. The Twilight actor, 31, attended Seth MacFarlane’s annual holiday party in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 9, with the unidentified woman. “They were together all night,” the source tells Us. “I saw them holding hands.”
The party’s other attendees included Ansel Elgort, Kate Hudson, Chord Overstreet, Glen Powell, Nick Viall and Lea Michele and her boyfriend, Zandy Reich.
I want to know the identity of the mystery blonde!! Who is she? Why is he going for a blonde now? Hm…
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Jennifer Lawrence? Katy Perry? Kristen Stewart herself? I can’t remember what color her hair is now, lol. I doubt it’s any of those people but I’m interested to see who he dates, whenever he decides to date. I like him.
If she’s a mystery blonde, chances are she isn’t someone immediately recognizable like Perry. Perhaps a model or indie actress type. Weren’t there rumors about him and Mia W. once? Although I think Mia would be recognizable. I tend to find the over the top self-deprecation thing that a couple of the British actors do a bit annoying (prefer Alicia Vikander and her ambition over Eddie R. for example) but he seems to a low key, decent guy.
If Kate Hudson and Lea Michele had been identified, no way Kristen Stewart or Katy Perry had managed to go unnoticed… Most likely he’s quietly seeing someone not very famous.
I find this guy very enjoyable… He had so much pressure on him during and post-Twilight but he seems to have paved his way into a decent indie career. I remember all “his fifteen minutes are over” remarks when twilight ended and all the derision he had to endure over his personal life, and see – he’s a respectable actor with many projects lined-up, he’s a Dior muse and he dated a cool mixed girl. I wish him all the best professionally and personally, onward and upward…
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Aren’t we all ‘mixed girls?’ 😉
I meant it as he’s not dull with his choices in his personal life as well as in professional. But if gossip is to be believed he can be with some generic blonde now, lol
I’m bummed Rob isn’t getting more attention this awards season. He started out with some buzz, but sadly it didn’t go very far. Regardless, I hope he is enjoying life at the moment (with or without mystery blondes, lol). He’s had a great year with two acclaimed roles and it’s great to see him finally be more widely accepted as more than “that Twilight guy”.
Agreed.
And since, he is so far removed from Twilight, I’m over the Sparkles moniker, even though I know it’s used affectionately here.
His movie was too small and genre-y for major awards anyway, and it did well with indie awards, I mean, The Big Sick, major critics and box office hit, was snubbed not only by Globes but by Indie Spirits and Gothams as well! The only thing I’m really petty about is that Rob didn’t get Best Actor at Cannes, he was so close…
I like him and I really like seeing him at all these award events and roundtables. His performance is definitely worthy of the awards he’s been nominated for and I think that is giving him a confidence he didn’t have before. He looks great, happy and relaxed.
If this US Mag story is true (big if) I am super curious to know who the blonde is.
Is Rob looking hot these days or I’m I seeing things ?? 😂😂
He’s always been hot, imo! Along with funny and humble. I’m glad he’s doing well…and also curious about the mystery blond!
I really liked Good Time, thought he was great in the role, but never thought it would rate an Oscar nom. Indie Spirit award is its home, and hope it’ll get some love there.
I agree- he’s navigated some minefields and come out the other side fairly unscathed. Hope Damsel gets a good reception at Sundance.
If Rob wants awards he needs to go for higher profile projects, doing quirky movies with talented but unknown directors can be a cool experience, but he’ll be forever doomed to be overshadowed by the likes of Ansel Elgort who’s two expressions, “sitting face” and “driving face”- but in a big studio movie – got him the Globe nom.
He looks so handsome. That’s all I’m here to say lol 😝
RPatz is such a babe these days
I knew Rob and Twigs would never last. They just seemed too different. That might seem exciting at first but it gets old fast. I must say he seems much happier since he broke up with her. Maybe its the bit of recognition he got for his film. He seems focused on his career for the first time in a long time. He will have to hustle hard for the good roles because his competition is very stiff – Garfield, Redmayne, Hardy, Murphy etc
By the way Kristen won a number of top critics awards for Clouds and was runner up in another couple like the LAFCC so its not just France that is recognising her.
As for the maybe blonde.. i hope his next gf is not famous and stays low key. He seems to really stress out about public relationships. It must make it impossible to enjoy it. Kristen seems much happier since she decided to just live her life and not hide who she is with.
I was just re-watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and he was actually quite good in the role of Cedric. It could have been flat Ken Doll stuff, but he put some humanity into it and made some interesting choices. I am glad he’s enjoying doing indies and growing as an actor when he could be blowing stuff up and wearing spandex undies and muscle padding in some pro-government Marvel crapola.