Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | March 26, 2026
Bless Robert Pattinson, our feral goblin patron saint of the off-the-rails press tour. You do not hire this man to be hinged in your movie or its promotional cycle, and I respect that. RPattz is currently doing the circuit for The Drama, his new A24 movie with Zendaya. They play an engaged couple whose seemingly perfect relationship goes haywire when one of them makes an unexpected confession. It’s great fun to see the cool, calm and super charming Zendaya, who is very good at being famous, be paired with a man who always seems on the edge of telling a bananas story about, like, exploding clowns or something.
While talking to the French channel Canal+, the pair were asked if they were Team Edward or Team Jacob. Twilight is having a minor revival right now, because nostalgia is a wild drug and people are latching onto the author of their teen years who isn’t a mould-ridden transphobe. Both Pattinson and Zendaya, of course, said Team Edward. ‘Nobody was Team Jacob,’ joked Pattinson. That was all ‘marketing’, apparently. Here’s the thing: he’s not actually wrong.
Okay, I’m sure some Twi-hards were Jacob fans. The interviewer here says she was, which Pattinson calls ‘crazy.’ You can hardly blame some fans for wanting Bella to end up with a guy her own age who wasn’t constantly thinking about killing her. But let’s be honest: there was never a real love triangle in this series. Stephenie Meyer never planned one. She had Bella/Edward as endgame from page one. Indeed, the only reason the series is four books long is because she got a three book deal then thought to write the happy ending she desired in Breaking Dawn, a.k.a. one of the most inexplicable trainwrecks in modern publishing. The team stuff was marketing, and Meyer leaned into it a bit in the books but not so much that it was ever a real competition. The Hunger Games tried a similar thing with Peeta and Gale, even though Suzanne Collins was open about how the romance of those books was basically trauma bonding.
I do feel for those Team Jacob people. We all knew it was never going to happen, but it must have sucked to read Breaking Dawn and get to the part where he imprints on a baby, then we’re told they’ll live happily ever after once she matures, meaning when she gets to seven years old but looks like a teenager. See, totally normal stuff! Again, that book is bananas. It’s like if Clive Barker was Mormon.
Sorry, Jacob. I hope you and Renesmee are happy? She looks 18, so it’s fiiiiiine!
