For a while, no one seemed to hate "Twilight" more than "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson.

The "High Life" actor has never held back about his repugnance to the blockbuster young-adult franchise, which made breakout stars of him and Kristen Stewart as vampire Edward Cullen and mortal Bella Swan. Just last year, the British actor joked to Variety that he “stopped mentally progressing around the time when I started doing those movies.”

But Pattinson, 32, has since changed his tune on the romance series, which he once said he would “mindlessly hate” if he were an average moviegoer. The first “Twilight” celebrated its 10-year anniversary last October, leading many to reevaluate its significant pop-culture impact – including Pattinson.

"It seems like with younger people in their late teens, early 20s, it's sort of become quite a hip thing to like," Pattinson says. "It's a fascinating second wave of people appreciating it, which is kind of cool. I think when anything becomes a massive phenomenon, there's always people who get annoyed because it's just everywhere. But now it seems like a retro thing: the soundtrack, the fashion. It's like, 'Oh, that's so late 2000s.' "

Pattinson says he watched part of the second movie, 2009’s “New Moon,” on TV “just the other day, and it genuinely does have an incredibly good soundtrack. I completely forgot, but the soundtracks were quite ahead of their time.”

Pattinson and Stewart have previously spoken about the anxiety they faced during the height of series’ popularity, with a rabid obsession from fans and the media over their off-screen relationship. But since the five-film franchise came to an end in 2012, both actors have gone on to successful careers in low-budget, critically acclaimed fare, helping them to better appreciate their time on “Twilight.”

"It's lovely now that the mania is not so intense," Pattinson says. "People come up (to me) and just have very fond memories of it. It's a really sweet thing. I think the only scary part was right in the thick of it all, when it was very, very intense. Now the intensity has died down and it's just very warm memories."