Shia LaBeouf, Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson: Top hunks.

Shia LaBeouf, Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson have been named among the top 10 hunks of 2008.
The ‘Indiana Jones’ actor has made the list compiled by website ETonline to find the best looking men of the year.
Other stars to be recognized for their handsome features include American football quarterback Tony Romo, the boyfriend of Jessica Simpson, actor Adam Rodriguez and ‘Pineapple Express’ star James Franco. Reduce Expenses and Save up to $800 on Auto Insurance How to View Your Credit Report and Scores for Free $2 Million in Scholarships for Working Parents Going Back to School
‘Twilight’ star Robert admits he is finding it hard to come to terms with his new sex symbol status, especially as he still has difficulties finding women who are willing to date him.
The 22-year-old actor said: “I am single at the moment but I read stories in the magazines and papers that I am dating so and so or I am dating so and so. But it's not true. But they are very good guesses because I always fancy the girl they pair me up with.
“I'm hoping it's the girl herself who has made it up - then I'm in with a real chance. Maybe I should start getting in contact with them.”
ET’s Top 10 hunks of 2008:

1. Robert Pattinson


2. Zac Efron


3. Tony Romo


4. Reggie Bush


5. Shia LaBeouf


6. Adam Rodriguez


7. Chris Pine


8. James Franco


9. Jay Hernandez


10. Simon Baker
    

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Bradley in the Twilight zone.

Twilight has turned a spotlight on North Vancouver singer-songwriter Sam Bradley, thanks in part to his boyhood friendship with actor Robert Pattinson, who plays the hit movie's lead vampire.North Vancouver's Sam Bradley, a childhood friend of star Robert Pattinson, has a tune on the movie Twilight's soundtrack.Bradley and Pattinson wrote the song "Never Think" together, and Bradley is now reaping the benefits after Pattinson's recording of the song was included on the movie's mega-selling soundtrack CD."What it does for me is, I'm going to be able to get a publishing deal," says the 22-year-old Bradley, who moved with his mother and sister from Britain to North Van when he was 17. "I'm going to be able to fund my own album. It's a big deal, the fact that the soundtrack went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, that really works in my favour."Pattinson and Bradley became friends as 12-year-old schoolboys in London's Hammersmith area, staying in touch as Pattinson's acting career took off and Bradley moved to Canada. Bradley joined his friend in Los Angeles earlier this month for Twilight's premiere screening."It was pretty crazy, late-night car chases, paparazzi. Robert is just huge there, it's ridiculous," Bradley says.The movie, based on Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular novel about a small-town high school girl who falls in love with a vampire classmate, stars Kristen Stewart alongside Pattinson. Word that the novel was being made into a movie drew feverish attention from Twilight fans long before the movie was even finished, and police have been called out to control the fan hysteria at some of Pattinson's public appearances.Bradley, who stayed with Pattinson at the actor's London apartment for six months last year, has had a front-row seat at his pal's career rise. Bradley was in England four years ago when Pattinson was cast as doomed wizard Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a small sample of what was to come, as it turned out."I'd never heard of Twilight and neither had he," says Bradley. "He told me as soon as he got it. He was just concentrating on making it as good as he could. What he said mostly was that he was going to be closer to Vancouver."Twilight filmed in rural Oregon earlier this year and Pattinson visited his friend in Vancouver during filming breaks. The two wrote the song together a year ago, and Bradley has 25 other songs he plans to record at North Vancouver's Baker Street studios. But first he'll head to London for 10 days next month to visit old friends and to attend Twilight's U.K. premiere."It's bizarre, but we kind of all planned it, this was our idea," says Bradley of the small group of school friends that also includes rising British actor Tom Sturridge. "It was our idea that they would be making movies and I would be making music. So when Twilight happened, it was kind of like, oh, it's starting."Bradley has put together a band with some Canadian musicians -- they're playing a New Year's Eve gig at Sailor Hagar's pub in North Vancouver.



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Robert Pattinson's fan shock.

Robert Pattinson is amazed by his new fan base.
The British actor has regularly been mobbed by fans in America as he promotes his new movie 'Twilight' - based on the cult books by Stephanie Meyer - and admits he was unprepared for the near-hysterical response he gets almost everywhere he goes.
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He said: "I went into it as a normal job - I mean it was just an audition and then it became this thing incrementally over the last few months.
"And every day that goes past it seems to get a hundred times bigger. Nothing surprises me to do with 'Twilight' any more.
"It's the most distracting thing in the world."
Although the books are cult favourites in the US, they are not as popular in the 'Harry Potter' star's native UK and he admits he is interested to see the response he gets when he returns home for the film's British premiere next month.
He added to BBC Newsbeat: "I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off."

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Twilight zone of screaming adulation.

LOS ANGELES, California—This is the hot young actor that girls are screaming their tonsils out for?
Some reporters couldn’t reconcile Robert Pattinson who looked like he just got out of bed, his hair a thick mess, with the buzz—screaming hysteria, to be more specific—proclaiming him as Hollywood’s new It Guy. But when we first interviewed him on the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the UK several years ago, we knew it was only a matter of time before Robert graduated from small roles like Cedric Diggory to a star-launching gig like Twilight. Tall, blessed with patrician good looks, Robert stood out among the Harry Potter cast.
Kristen Stewart offered the most astute observation about her Twilight co-star: Rob is very organic. He’s in the moment and he lets it happen which is brave ... He’s a courageous actor.
As predicted, Twilight, where Robert and Kristen play Edward and Bella, respectively in the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s hit novel of the same name, topped the box-office last weekend. The movie about a high school girl who falls in love with a vampire grossed over $70 million.
Below are excerpts of our separate interviews with Robert and Kristen.

Robert Pattinson:

How would you describe your life now?
I’ve been involved in Twilight all year now. I’ve been doing press for several weeks so I haven’t really had time to reflect on what my life actually is. It would be very strange being locked in a thing where I go into lots of different rooms and lots of little girls scream at me all the time (laughter). I would probably get old after a while. I think 32 is going to be my year. That’s the year I’ve always been looking forward to. I don’t know why (laughter).

How old are you now?

Twenty-two.

This movie is about obsessive love. Have you ever experienced it?
Yeah, sort of. I remember there was a girl I was totally obsessed with for about 10 years.

Ten years is a long time.
Yeah, but it’s like I never ever spoke to her. I think that’s the best type of love (laughter). I remember when reading my diaries from the time—whenever anything else would mess up with a girl, I’d be like, she’d better be worth it. When it happens, you can always have this kind of hope and then when I finally told her she was like, You’ve never spoken to me in my whole life. You’ve only spoken to me about three times and never said anything nice (laughter).

Are you still in a band?
I was in a band years ago. Not like a proper band but I had kind of roll-on, roll-off musicians. I still try and play but it’s weird now since when I’m trying to do it as an actor, it always seems kind of cheesy. I liked playing at open mikes in bars and stuff because it was the only time I really felt free. I did a couple of gigs in LA and people filmed and put them on the Internet. It just ruins the whole experience. You’re like Oh, that wasn’t the point. So I stopped. I’m going to wait for all this to die down before I start doing live gigs again.

What is your home life like?
In LA, it basically consists of waiting for my phone to ring (laughter), reading scripts and that’s about it (laughter). In London, I could replace scripts for books and I just watch a lot of movies. I have very few hobbies (laughter).

Can you tell us more about your family background?
My dad is from Yorkshire and he did a bunch of things. In the ’70s, he moved to America for a bit and just worked as a taxi driver. Then he started selling cars in the ’80s. My mom worked as a booker at a modeling agency and now they’re both retired. My mom, sisters and I speak really well. My parents were just very aware of how you’re treated differently in the world if you speak articulately. So it was just the way I was brought up.

Do you believe in having a soul mate?
I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you’re young because you’re probably going to mess it up (laughter).

How have you embraced the thought that you’re a sex symbol now?
It’s strange because I’m a sex symbol to 14-year-old girls (laughter) which I guess is not the most helpful situation to be in. But yeah, I’ve never really thought of it. It’s just so funny. I mean, just last year I couldn’t even get a date (laughter) and then this year, the world turns and it’s so bizarre (laughter) that everybody just changes their mind at the same time (laughter).

You couldn’t get a date?
When I was in London, it was like, not at all. I don’t know why. That’s all I talked about the whole of last year—that I need to get a girlfriend. I need to get a girlfriend and then this year, I could have any 12-year-old I wanted (laughter).

What do you look for in a girl?
I’m always shocked by the people who I’m attracted to. It’s always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that’s pretty much my only prerequisite.

You get to run up a tree, among other special things. How did you achieve some of these effects?
I can’t even walk in a straight line so it was very tough doing all that type of stuff. It was designed like in a kung fu movie in a lot of sequences. That was tough—virtually anything to do on a harness because you have to exert so much effort just maintaining your center of gravity. It’s tougher especially when you have to make it look effortless and not breath as well (laughter). That was probably the hardest thing I had to do in the movie.

How long did you rehearse for stunts that required wire work?
Not a huge amount of time. About two weeks, I guess, and I had to do a ton of it as well.

What kind of music do you listen to?
I don’t know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. I have been listening to them for years. I was obsessed with Van Morrison for years. I went to see him recently where he performed Astral Weeks. I just spent the entire night crying (laughter) but I was really obsessed with Van Morrison.

Were you a rebellious teenager?
I really wasn’t very much of a rebel. I’m seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don’t like doing what people tell me to do. I don’t deliberately rebel against them.

How did you evoke sexiness in this role?
A lot of it has to do with not speaking—like that always makes somebody more attractive. I wasn’t really trying to play Edward as a sexy guy, though. He’s not very sexy in the book. It’s like he’s just kind of mysterious and his whole personality works from a template. So it creates more mystery and whatever he says seems very contrived. He always has a completely opposite thought to what he’s saying in his head. He’s always hiding things. A lot of the attraction to someone is always frustration and that’s what a lot of the story is.

What concerns you most about this sudden fame?
When something or someone is hyped and you’re put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That’s kind of scary, especially when you’re not really putting yourself out there.

Kristen Stewart:

Have you had crushes that became obsessions?
I feel like most crushes are fairly obsessive—for me at least. I have experienced them.

At what age?
Oh my God, I started having some crushes on people when I was five, I think (laughter).

Your character kind of takes care of her mom. How is your own relationship with your mother?
My mom is a momma bear. She’s the caretaker but in a sort of nonmaternal way. I have a lot of brothers who aren’t my biological brothers. We take in strays but I’m friends with my mom. The one thing that Bella is not getting from her mom is that her mother is not being a mom. She’s just a buddy and you don’t need a friend in a mom always. I mean, that could be a good part of it but you need more than that and I have both parts in my mom.

Tell us more about your mother taking in strays. That sounds exciting.
She’s just taking in friends that I’ve acquired who just don’t have it easy in their own homes. That’s really great. I just did a movie called Welcome to the Rileys where I play a homeless kid. She’s squatting in a house at the time that you see her in the movie. She’s essentially homeless and it’s this entire counterculture that I was completely unaware of—runaways and people, kids particularly, who live on the streets.

So your mother rehabilitates them and they go back…
No, these are my brothers. We keep them. These are my best friends (laughter). Yeah, we keep them.

What did Robert bring to the table? How did you arrive at that chemistry between the two of you?
Rob came into the audition looking sort of terrified, like a subdued fear and pained. The pain was just very evident in him. I am not saying it’s in Rob but he knew what to bring to that character. We didn’t need the statuesque, model-types who come in and just pose. I couldn’t see any of the other guys. They weren’t even looking at me. It was like they were focusing on their lines but Rob is very organic. He’s in the moment and he lets it happen which is brave. He’s brave. He’s a courageous actor.

How much training did you have to undergo for the stunts which required wire work?
I didn’t have much training. I was trained to hold onto Rob (laughter). It was like I didn’t really have to do much else. I was always trying to make it easier for him because he’s always found it very difficult. I was always trying to find points to take the pressure off of him.
We had to climb a tree once on a wire in the ballet studio at the end of the movie. It’s a pretty rigorous fight scene and there were a couple of times where he goes to pick me up. The first time he pulled his groin so they put me on a wire and we had to go up to the balcony. Then James (played by Cam Gigandet) pulls him down and I smack the floor and roll to a mark. Hitting the mark was really difficult and there was glass all over the floor. It was fake glass but it can cut you. I enjoy stuff like that. I really like physicality. I really think it’s fun.

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Rob Pattinson's No Model Boyfriend.

Ever since Twilight's Rob Pattinson was spotted at a Kings of Leon concert with Brazilian model Annelyse Schoenberger, rumors have been flying that the two are a couple.But J-14 spoke to Rob's Twilight costar Nikki Reed exclusively during her mall stop at New Jersey's Garden State Plaza's Hot Topic and she says not only have Rob and Annelyse never dated, but that's not even the right girl he was with at the show.

Two weeks ago, Rob and I went to a Kings of Leon concert with a girlfriend of mine named Sage, she says. Somebody photographed him and Sage together and it started this massive rumor that he's dating some supermodel named Annelyse, who's not even her. Us Weekly even printed it. My friend Sage is getting such a kick out of it, you have no idea.

Who is this mystery Sage?

She's been my friend since I was a little kid, Nikki says. She did do some modeling when she was younger, but she's a really great musician and actress now.

Now with Rob's supposed model girlfriend out of the picture, it leaves even more room for speculation that his friendship with 10,000 B.C. actress Camilla Belle could be coming in between Camilla and her new boyfriend Joe Jonas. For all the details, pick up the January issue of J-14, on sale December 8.

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Kristen Stewart: Bella in 'Twilight'.

This is your first big lead in a movie. How does that feel?

It feels good. I feel like I started somewhere huge, and there's sort of nowhere to go from here... I feel like it was a big responsibility and I was really intimidated for a while, but now that it's done and I've had some breathing time to step away from the project and I'm not living it anymore, I feel good. I'm really proud. I've never worked so hard on another movie and you wouldn't expect that.. It's a big studio movie, but...

Well, it was a pretty emotionally intense experience for you.

Yes, it was.

How long did it take to shake off the character of Bella?

I bought a truck, the truck that Charlie [Bella's dad] has in the movie, and I drove it home from Portland, and it was like driving away... Not that it was something I had to get away from. It was just, it was such a complete experience. I got over it. I drove all the way home. I mean, it was okay. [laughs] It didn't take that long. Just the drive home, I guess.

Edward, whom Bella falls for, is a vampire, but it seems like he could be the equivalent of the sensitive bad boy in real life, too.

Well, yes. There are a million guys like that, and most girls have the same feelings for them. Yeah, there are a bunch of little themes like that. I mean, yes, it's a fantasy, and we're at Comic-Con [so it's in the] comic book genre, but it's very close to home. It's about real human beings, even though the vampires aren't human. He is. That's what differentiates him between the good and the bad vampires, is that he still has a connection to his human self. He's not just given to the animalistic side.

What appeals to you about Bella?

Bella is a very honest... I mean, I could relate to her because she's just a very straight-up, good-natured girl who found herself in an insane position... [She's] seemingly logical, and then all of the sudden she's thinking of herself as a psychotic person and [she's] just swept away by something more powerful than her. Every girl wants to lose herself. And Bella started out hard and just lost it, and that's what I really loved about it.

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Rob Pattinson Talks 'Twilight'.

Just days before Twilight pandemonium is unleashed at a theater near you, Robert Pattinson, who plays the dreamy vampire Edward in the film adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer bestseller, still manages to work the mellow Brit vibe. We caught up with the actor during a quiet moment on the whirlwind promo jaunt for the movie, which hits theaters Nov. 21, to chat about his music, those adoring (if bold) Twilighters, and being one of Perez's boys.
I've been hearing about the fans just going crazy at the promo events for Twilight. You're bearing the brunt of it, huh?It's been fun. It's weird, I get to a city and I always get told there was a riot earlier on. By the time I get there, it's always quieted down a bit. But it is pretty nuts. I thought it might happen in one city, but it's happening everywhere, in every single city we go to, around the world. It's pretty crazy.

What's the weirdest thing that's happened so far?

Well, this was in New York, at the Apple store. This really, really young girl came up on stage, and she asked me to bite her, but like in such a passionate way — it wasn't really fun and games, "Hey, will you bite me, haha, joking!" She'd made up her mind, she got on the stage, and she wanted it. Like a real vampire bite.

So did you bite her?

Yeah, I did!

You did?

No, I didn't, really. Of course not. But it was really funny. It's just so strange how I go to these events and a lot of the people who are there are just completely convinced that I'm Edward. I'm really the character from the book, there is no Robert Pattinson. It's so funny. And they react in that way, not as if I'm just an actor.

Do you get stalked when you're just walking down the street on your own? Do people recognize you?

I don't even know. I mean, I haven't really done anything normal for ages now. God, it's been so long since I've even just walked down the street by myself. Actually, in New York, it didn't really happen. I went off on my own a bit. But it's really strange just being in airports and there are people there waiting for you to get off the plane with their cameras, and you're just exhausted. It's so weird. That's the biggest change I've noticed.

Have you seen the movie yet?

I haven't. I don't really watch my stuff at all, so I don't think I will end up seeing it. Well, maybe I will. I think I'll end up seeing it at the premiere, but I really don't like watching myself on screen.

Did you guys use a lot of CGI in the infamous sparkling Edward scene?

As usual, in Oregon, there were incredibly unpredictable, bizarre weather conditions. There was no sunlight that day, as usual, and of course, we needed this big ray of sunlight, so we used a huge light and I turned around into it. There was no make-up or anything on the day. We had tried to do it with make-up, but it just didn't work so we had to do it with special effects. It was done by George Lucas' company, Industrial Light & Magic, and apparently it looks pretty cool but I haven't seen it yet. But the people at the junket said it looks pretty amazing.

What's going on with New Moon?

I think the script's done already, they just need to greenlight it. But I think it all depends on how well Twilight does, whether it's shot or not.

I read somewhere that Catherine Hardwicke, the director, estimated it needs to earn $150 million.

Oh wow! I don't think it's that much! Is it? We've got our work cut out for us then. But I think there's a lot more CGI needed in the second one, so I think it is a significant amount of money. The second book was my favorite book, so I'm quite looking forward to working on it.

Have you read the whole series now?

I haven't. I've read all of the books except for Breaking Dawn. I didn't want to know how it ended. I wanted to have the uncertainty of not knowing where it's going to go, so I just read the first three. I want to read the last one, but I'm determined to wait.

What was it like working with Kristen Stewart?

She's basically the reason I did the movie. When I read the book, and there are these moony descriptions of Edward as this God-like figure, I thought there was no way I could play him, really. But when I got into the room with Kristen, there was just a certain chemistry. And she's just very smart. She's really the best actress of her generation. I'd seen the run of movies she'd done. She's 18, but it just seemed unnecessary for her to do any of that silly teen movie stuff. Even the movies that are supposed to be aimed at teens, she gets out of it not looking like she's in a teen movie. I thought she'd fight to make Twilight as serious as possible. She's a very cool person to work with.

And you guys tried to elevate the characters to another level, huh?

Yeah, it was really funny, looking back on it. When you just read the book, it's deceptively simple. It's an easy read. But when you try to actually play it, it's a lot more difficult. There's got to be a reason why there are so many fans. There's something else to it that people are really connecting with. So we were trying to find what that something else was.

So you were trying to play Edward as a manic depressive, then?

[Laughs] Initially, yes. Not quite a manic, maybe just a depressive. But Catherine talked us down from that a bit.

How does it feel to be one of Perez Hilton's boys? You're on that list alongside Zac Efron and the Jonas Brothers.

[Laughs] It's good. I didn't really know about that site until my mom sent me an email about it. I can't remember what specifically it was about, but she just forwarded something from him. It's just so strange how it all comes at you, literally overnight, all of this stuff. It's funny.

You've dethroned Zac Efron as the teen heartthrob du jour.

I don't think I quite have yet, though it's funny to see my face on T-shirts. I don't really see it as me. But luckily, I don't have that much to live up to because I'm playing a broody vampire. I don't have to be sweet and clean-cut. But it's cool, I guess. It's complimentary. I am grateful about being part of this huge phenomenon. I mean, there are only so many times something like this is going to happen in your life. And I thought I'd had my run with Harry Potter. It is quite insane.

Yeah, what do you do for a topper after doing Harry Potter and Twilight?

I don't know! What else is there? [Laughs] It's crazy, I've kind of cornered the young adult franchise market. But I'm doing this movie called Parts Per Billion in January, with Dennis Hopper and Rosario Dawson. It's a love story set against the end of the world, but none of the three couples it focuses on know it's the end of the world. It's a very poetic, philosophical script, so I think it should be fun. I'm paired up with Olivia Thirlby. She's cool.

I heard you've thrown your name out for the Jeff Buckley biopic that might happen?

I'd love to do it, but I don't think there's even a script out there yet. I don't look anything like him, so I don't know if I could play him. They'd probably go with James Franco — he looks just like him. But I just love his music. I love the idea of it. I don't know too much about his life, though.

Speaking of biopics, you're playing a young Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. Are you into art?

It's not that much racier than Twilight, actually, despite the gay love aspect. I shot it before Twilight, and it's about Dalí's relationship with the writer Federico García Lorca, when they were in college together and up till about when Dalí was 26. It's about how their relationship affected their art and also how it formed Dalí into who he was in later life, that caricature. But I myself was never really very good at art. I haven't got a very good sense of perspective, in any element of my life, really. [Laughs] One of my best friends is a very, very good sculptor, and he's always annoyed with me because I don't know enough about art. I'm much more interested in film and music.

And you've got two songs featured in Twilight. So is music next?

I don't know. I used to play open mikes a lot before the stuff got leaked on the Web. But then everyone made such a big deal about it, it was a turn off. It just makes it a very different thing when people know who you are. It's like you go to an open mike, but the vibe has completely changed. It has to be an actual performance, whereas before it was just fun. It's just a lot more pressure, so it's different.

Is the audience completely different too now, when you do those? All teenage girls in Twilight T-shirts?

I haven't done one in a while actually, so I don't know. I used to just turn up at places and just do it, I'd never announce it. But then, I don't know how, word just got out so I stopped for a while. But I'm going back to London in December, so maybe I'll do some then.

Uh oh, I'm sure you've got fans booking flights to England now. Here's the last, infamous question. Team Jacob or Team Edward?

I can't really say I was either team, really. How do you decide? Oh, why not. I guess I'm Team Edward. That's the obvious answer. But I'll be Team Jacob in the third one.

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