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It’s been nearly 20 years since Twilight first came out, and Robert Pattinson is still catching things about his performance as Edward Cullen that he never noticed before.

In a recent interview with Vogue, the 39-year-old reflected on some of his dramatic acting choices while filming the romantic vampire fantasy films, including one he didn’t notice until recently.

“There was one thing I did see the other day, which is quite funny, where I’m sitting down in the cafeteria the first time, and I’ve literally never noticed this, and I, for some reason, I go like this on the table to sit,” he said in the video interview, pressing his index finger and middle finger on each hand into the table to lower himself down.

“I thought it was an elegant, vampiric thing to do. I think that was what the thought process was,” he continued with a laugh. “But looking at it 20 years later, you’re like, ‘Huh, it’s very strange.’ “

The Batman actor shot to superstardom as Cullen, a vampire, opposite Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan in the series. The first film came out in 2008.

“I really love that movie. I think I would have done it exactly the same — to be honest, I don’t even think I’d be able to do the performance now,” he told Vogue. “Everybody was approaching it so earnestly and took it really, really, really seriously.”

“There was no kind of tongue-in-cheek element. No one’s winking at the audience,” he continued. “It’s like it’s very real, which is strange for a movie about a vampire romance.”

Still, the actor said he “envies” his past self’s abilities to take it so seriously.

While chatting with Jennifer Lopez in Variety‘s Actors on Actors series in 2019, Pattinson admitted that the plot to Twilight is a bit “bizarre,” but found worldwide success regardless.

While the film features a love triangle, Bella is notably the only human in the mix, while Edward is a vampire and Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black is a werewolf.

“I mean, it’s a weird story, Twilight. It’s strange how people responded,” he said of the cultural phenomenon it became. “They are very romantic, but at the same time, it’s not like The Notebook romantic. The Notebook is very, very sweet and heartbreaking and stuff. Twilight is about this guy who finds the one girl he wants to be with, and also wants to eat her. Well, not eat her, drink her blood, whatever.”

“I thought there were definitely bits that were very romantic,” he continued. “But to me, I thought it was a pretty weird story, and even when I was promoting it, I was pretty open about how strange I thought it was when I was doing it.”