Robert Pattinson's Net Worth In 2024 Is More Dazzling Than the Vampires in 'Twilight'
Robert Pattinson's net worth in 2024 is as sky-high as his hair often gets.
The British actor went from starring in Harry Potter to an absurdly self-serious teen romance drama franchise to a bunch of "freak" roles (as he'd dubbed them himself). He moved on to blockbusters like Christopher Nolan's Tenet and an emo-inspired Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves' The Batman.
Pattinson explained to GQ of his post-Twilight career, "I'm constantly doing risk assessments, which drives everybody crazy, trying to predict every single element that could possibly happen. And then, at the end of it, just being like: 'Ah, f**k it! I’ll just play a lighthouse keeper who f***s a mermaid! I think this is the right move!'"
If you ask Pattinson himself, his success comes as a surprise, because, well, he doesn't think he can actually act.
"I only know how to play scenes, like, three ways," he insisted to The Guardian. "I'm nervous on, like, every single movie." His methods are, one could say, pretty unique: He said that part of his preparation before filming scenes for The Lighthouse included things like punching himself in the face, spinning until he was dizzy, or even drinking mud. "Because I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought makes that a little bit easier is if you shake up your physical state just before action," he explained. "You end up walking into a scene having a different feeling."
Whatever the heck he's doing (or not doing, as he's admitted to lying and making up stories in interviews), it's lucrative. Find out Robert Pattinson's net worth in 2024 and how The Batman star made his moolah.
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How did Robert Pattinson get famous?
Pattinson had somewhat of a leg up in terms of getting famous: His mother, Clare, was a booker at a modeling agency. He took up piano and guitar as a child, and as a teen began acting in local theater productions in his hometown of Barnes, England, and worked briefly as a model.
Pattinson had a series of false starts that almost landed him stardom: He was cast and filmed scenes for movies including Vanity Fair, but his appearances landed on the cutting room floor. It wasn't until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005 that he broke out as a star with his role of Cedric Diggory.
Starring as vampire Robert Cullen in Twilight in 2008 made him a household name, for better or worse—and for him, the spotlight often was for worse, as obsessive fans and the press swarmed with speculation about his relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart. Pattinson starred in all four of the franchise's blockbusters, all the while planning his next career moves: With The Twilight Saga setting him up for life financially, he was able to branch out artistically and explore quirky, eclectic, indie and at times outright weird roles—then came somewhat full circle when he was cast as the titular brooding dark knight in The Batman.
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What is Robert Pattinson's net worth in 2024?
Robert Pattinson's net worth in 2024 is estimated at $100 million. While the bulk of his fortune comes from The Twilight Saga films (more on that later), he also netted a cool $12 million endorsement deal for Dior men's fragrances, according to E! News. The initial contract was reportedly for three years.
Who is the richest actor in Twilight?
Pattinson is the wealthiest star to come from the Twilight Saga franchise. He is followed by Stewart (estimated net worth of $70 million), Taylor Lautner (estimated net worth of $40 million) and Anna Kendrick (estimated net worth of $20 million). At the time of the first Twilight movie's release, he and Stewart were on relatively equal footing in terms of their earnings, though Stewart may have edged him out slightly thanks to her previous lead roles in movies like Panic Room and Speak.
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Who is richer, Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart?
With an estimated net worth of a whopping $100 million, Pattinson is $30 million wealthier than Stewart as of this writing. Like Pattinson, Stewart was a lead in the Twilight movies and went on to have high-fashion deals, including Balenciaga's Florabotanica fragrance, Chanel and more. However, while she has an Oscar nod for Spencer under her belt and starred in big-budget films like Snow White and the Huntsman and Charlie's Angels, she's still a bit behind her most famous ex in terms of earnings.
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How much did Robert Pattinson make in Harry Potter?
Pattinson's salary for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire isn't known, but seeing as he was a complete unknown and wasn't a lead at the time, it likely wasn't a huge payday. However, it paid off in spades in giving R-Patz the motivation to keep pursuing acting.
He told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of his work on the film, "It was a really nice environment on Harry Potter. Even compared to movies I've done since, it was very protected, the way the kids were treated. I've watched movies where you see a kid who's got their tutor and it doesn't exactly seem like they're really going to school." He added. "I mean, it's just kind of [like] they are fulfilling a legal requirement. But in Harry Potter, it was like they were at school and they were kind of doing work at the same time."
He also said of the experience, "I remember going to Tokyo for the first time and sitting in my room, looking out over the city and being like, 'How has this happened?' It was really special and I really like that movie… I wouldn't be acting if it wasn’t for that."
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How much did Robert Pattinson get paid for the Twilight series?
Pattinson reportedly took home a cool $2.5 million for the first Twilight film in salary and bonuses. He reportedly got a big pay bump for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, giving him a salary plus box office bonuses for a total of about $12 million. While his payday for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse isn't known, we can make a conservative estimate that he made the same as New Moon for another $12 million. We doknow how much he and fellow leads Stewart and Lautner likely made for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2. According to Vulture, Pattinson (and his co-stars) likely took home $25 million in salary, plus box office bonuses, totaling a whopping $41 million apiece.
By those calculations—which, again, are based on conservative estimates and don't include home video and merchandise sales—he likely made about $67.5 million from The Twilight Saga.
It's a good thing he made bank, because, well, he didn't have much other incentive to make these five movies—Pattinson clowned the franchise regularly in the press. He flat out told Vanity Fair of the Twilight craze in 2011, "There's nothing you can do about it. That's the way it is. But it is weird being part of that, kind of representing something you don't particularly like."
He told E! News of Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer in particular, "When I read [Twilight], it seemed like I was convinced Stephenie was convinced she was Bella. And it was like, it was a book that wasn't supposed to be published. It was like reading her sexual fantasy, especially when she said it was based on a dream and it was like, 'Oh I've had this dream about this really sexy guy,' and she just writes this book about it. Some things about Edward are so specific, I was just convinced—I was like, 'This woman is mad. She's completely mad and she's in love with her own fictional creation.'"
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How much is Robert Pattinson getting paid for The Batman?
Pattinson's salary for The Batman seems paltry, but don't be deceived! While he is reportedly taking home $3 million to play Bruce Wayne, that is likely just what Pattinson is making upfront and doesn't include box office points and bonuses he'd make on the backend after the film's release. Additionally, Pattinson will likely make a healthy chunk of change from The Batman merchandise, home video sales and streams.
Regardless of the payday, Pattinson said he pursued the role "obsessively."
"I was aiming for quite different stuff," he told Total Film. "Obviously it's basically the jewel in the crown, of the parts you can really get as an actor. But I'd never really thought I was anywhere close to doing it, and especially with the other parts I was attracted to at the time." He said his team was also surprised at the turn, recalling, "Even my agents were like, 'Oh, interesting. I thought you only wanted to play total freaks?' And I was like, 'He is a freak!'"
As Pattinson put it, his Bruce Wayne is a freak created by the heartbreak of losing his parents—though the film won't focus on the death of Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne, but rather the aftermath of the loss.
"He's got this enormous trauma inside him, and he's built this intricate, psychological mechanism to handle it," he said, adding jokingly, "It's like a really, really, really bad self-therapy, which has ended up with him being Batman at the end, as self-help."
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How much did Robert Pattinson make for Twilight 1?
According to documents obtained by E! News, Pattinson (and Stewart) each made $2.5 million in salary and box office bonuses from the first Twilight film. This doesn't include any potential royalties and bonuses he may have made from home video, DVD sales and merchandise from the first movie. (And they sold a lot of DVDs—a cool 11.5 million, in fact!)
Pattinson revealed to GQ that he actually was almost fired from the first Twilight film because he played Edward Cullen as, well, Edward Sullen.
"I was 21 and kind of wanted to make it as arty as possible. We had this strange tension where the studio was a little bit scared to make things a little bit too emo and stuff, and I thought that was the only way to play it," he said. "It just seems so ridiculous talking about it now because I was literally enraged… I spent so much time just infuriated. There's definitely something about being 21 as well, because I can't believe the way I was acting half the time when I think back on it."