Robert Pattinson said that the money he earned from his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire lasted him a long while.
The actor, 35, played Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory from the Hufflepuff house in the fourth Harry Potter film installment, released in 2005.
Goblet of Fire marked his theatrical film debut, after his role in the movie Vanity Fair had been scrapped.
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"I spent a lot of time living off the Harry Potter money," Pattinson said while discussing his most iconic roles in a new video for GQ. "I moved to an apartment in Soho in London."
The actor told the magazine that after Harry Potter, he was convinced he was going to leave acting behind and instead pursue a career in music.
"I don't know where I had the kind of belief in that, because there was absolutely no one saying that there's any kind of music career on the table," Pattinson said.
"But I was doing a lot of gigs all the time. I was just constantly doing open mics all the time, and then I ran out of money, basically. I was definitely going in the wrong direction in terms of a career, up until Twilight," he added.
Following his breakthrough role in Harry Potter, Pattinson made a name for himself after starring in a series of successful movies, as well as some independent ones.
He appeared in movies like Little Ashes and How to Be, which were both released in 2008, the same year that Pattinson starred as a vampire named Edward Cullen in Twilight, a big-screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's fantasy novel.
What's more, Pattinson even performed two songs 'Never Think' and 'Let Me Sign' for the Twilight soundtrack.
The success of the first Twilight movie resulted in four sequels released between 2009 and 2012, based on Meyer's novels: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn: Part 1, and Breaking Dawn: Part 2.
After the final installment was released, Pattinson steered away from blockbuster or franchise movies and focused on smaller films helmed by directors he was a fan of.
The actor's latest project sees him star as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Matt Reeves' The Batman, set for release in March.