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- 'Twilight' Heartthrob Shares the Real Story Behind His Character's Surprising Evolution</p>
<p>Jacqueline Burt CoteJuly 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM</p>
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<p>'Twilight' Heartthrob Shares the Real Story Behind His Character's Surprising Evolution originally appeared on Parade.</p>
<p>As brooding vampire Jasper Hale in the blockbuster Twilight film series, Jackson Rathbone won the hearts of countless fans who remain completely in love with the character years later...and many are still wondering about one of the traits that set Jasper apart from the other sparkly-skinned immortals in Forks, Washington.</p>
<p>In a video shared to TikTok recently from a panel appearance, Rathbone, 40, responded to a fan's question about why Jasper's accent changed as the movies went on, becoming more Southern in the later installments.</p>
<p>"I'm from a small town in west Texas," Rathbone explained, "and for the first film, they thought it would be too much, you know — we're teenagers hiding in the Pacific Northwest, so they just said, we'll do a Texas accent in the way that Rob sits down," he quipped before poking fun at the infamous way Robert Pattinson sat down in Twilight, resting his fingertips on a table as he lowered himself to a seated position.</p>
<p>As Rathbone continued, it was David Slade, the British director of Eclipse, who suggested that Jasper should have an accent.</p>
<p>"We were having dinner and he said 'Jackson, your accent is amazing, why don't we put it in the film?'" Rathbone recalled, before his former co-star Peter Facinelli (who played Carlisle) interjected.</p>
<p>"Jackson said, 'Your accent's actually amazing too,'" Facinelli added.</p>
<p>"I said, 'Stop talking, I don't like your accent. My people threw your people's tea in the ocean. Get on outta here,'" Rathbone joked, adding, "But that's honestly why."</p>
<p>Of course, as many fans have noted over the years, it did make sense for Jasper to have an accent like Rathbone, since the character was born in Texas. As Movieweb reported, Rathbone recently expressed his interest in a potential prequel series about former Confederate Army major Jasper, noting, "There was a darkness in his past."</p>
<p>"He's seen literal horror of war at 17 years old, and there's a lot of darkness there. So what I'd love to explore is the idea of when he meets Alice, that she's there to not only send him forward about what happened in life, but to remind him that he's loved and that he actually is worth something," Rathbone explained.</p>
<p>Related: Fan-Favorite 'Twilight' Star, 58, Is 'Still So Fine' in Recent Appearance</p>
<p>'Twilight' Heartthrob Shares the Real Story Behind His Character's Surprising Evolution first appeared on Parade on Jul 7, 2025</p>
<p>This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 7, 2025, where it first appeared.</p>
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