This is it. The week the reviews come out. The week that finds the rest of Hollywood opening its eyes to the magic of Robert Pattinson, the movie star.
No matter how the film is received, Pattinson is bound to emerge from this experience as a bona fide movie star.
Sitting through hundreds of recent interviews while promoting this week's potential blockbuster Twilight, Pattinson never lost his charm, wit or grace and now the qualities that have attracted his long time fans are cemented for jaded industry people to absorb.
The same for all those promotional photo shoots - not only did they capture his obvious good looks, they also captured the chameleon like quality he possesses when photographed. One moment he looks like a boy; then a boy on the verge of manhood; then he looks like a mature adult male. These looks will allow him to accept any variety of film roles, and not be locked into any one genre. He will have his pick of scripts.
Robert Pattinson is not just another pretty faced 22 year old actor. There is much more to him than that. He is a true artist, a student of the world and well grounded; he will not be just the "it boy" of the year.
Long time fans will probably feel the same way I do - vindicated. My daughter reminded me the other day about when, after seeing him in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I went to his IMDb page to see who he was and what his previous works were. At the time, GOF was his only film credit and I told her then "watch out, this young man is going to make it."
I believe he made it in 2008.
