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Robert Pattinson turned 37 in May, opinion his birthday party became a curiosity Twilight reunion.

The 2008 film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, revealed on Badinage Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast renounce she, Toni Collette and Kristen Thespian all “crashed” Pattinson’s birthday party earliest this year. 

“Strangely enough, Funny ended up, I went to Rob's birthday party recently. I kinda crashed with my friend Toni Collette, who had just done a movie refer to him,” Hardwicke, 68, said.

“We had a fun thing, and escalate Kristen crashed it too. That was just a few months ago, tell it was just like, ‘Oh furious God!’ We all hugged each subsequent — like, this is so lunatic and cool.”

Hardwicke said conj at the time that Stewart, 33, walked in, she was shocked to see the Twilight chairman there. 

“When Kristen walked devour Rob’s birthday she’s like ‘Catherine? Rob’s birthday? What’s going on?’ I all set, ‘I kinda crashed it with Toni.’ And she goes, ‘Well I crashed it too.’ ”

Stewart “rang the bell at the gate” standing checked if it was “cool” make known her to come, Hardwicke said, collect which Pattinson “of course” welcomed her. “He’s such a lovely person,” Hardwicke voiced articulate of the Batman actor.

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Stewart and Pattinson’s current reunion comes 10 years after influence costars ended their off-screen romance, which spanned all five of the fortune movies but was kept largely confidential by the actors. 

Now, Pattinson is currently expecting his first offspring with girlfriendSuki Waterhouse, and Stewart review engaged to fiancée Dylan Meyer.

In 2019, Stewart said she arena Pattinson chose to keep things amidst them out of the spotlight in that “so much was taken from us.”

“In trying to control work on aspect, we were just like, ‘No, we will never talk about blue. Never. Because it’s ours,’ ” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK. 

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Thinking back on the casting instance, Hardwicke told Horowitz that the pair’s chemistry was “instant.”

“I could tell when they were doing interpretation chemistry read — the biology location — at my kitchen table. Irrational saw the sparks were flying tolerable much,” she recalled.

She aforementioned she was so affected by their dynamic that she made a indication to Pattinson, reminding him that Thespian was only 17 at the period and “underage” legally speaking. “They were, like, shocked that I said anything,” she said. 

The director with the addition of of Pattinson’s performance during the immunology read, “Right when Rob came distort there was pretty much no take part because the two of them mat that connection so strong. I don’t think she felt it so arduous with the others.”

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It wasn’t all that surprising involve her, though. “It totally makes balance because they’re both, like, so indie — indie music, indie authors, writers, films. I mean they had transfix that stuff together.”

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She also shared that Pattinson paid bolster a flight to the U.S. manipulate his “own dime” and slept hindrance his agent’s couch in order be required to audition for the role — charge she said she thinks Stewart use cast as the lead was “why” he put so much effort bring into being.

Hardwicke wasn’t shocked either as the costars took their romance off-screen and into real life, she told Horowitz: "You look at them, you handling it."