Twilight star 'doesn't like attention'.

Vampire movie Twilight has broken box office records in America and is set to do the same in the UK. Actor Robert Pattinson was amongst cast members in London for the UK premiere. Newsbeat caught up with him to find out why he's camera shy, how he copes with hordes of screaming fans and what it would take to get him wandering around naked.

It's a bit crazy what's been happening around Twilight, isn't it?
It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person anyway, so it doesn't really feed well when people are looking at you. I'm not really in the right job. I don't like having my photo taken. I don't like the attention.
Do you have fans following you around?
Whenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there are loads of people screaming at me. I'm not thinking at all so I can't really remember what's happened immediately afterwards.
There are stories in the papers about a multi-million pound deal for appearing in the rest of the Twilight series. Are they true?
I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m (£8.1m) a movie. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.
Are you doing the next two films?
I went into it doing it as a trilogy. They're shooting the second one in March. I'm not really in it that much in the second one. The lead character is somebody else, which is another reason why I'm not being paid $12m. I've got two scenes.
People are calling you the next Jude Law. Do those claims sit comfortably with you?
No. The same thing happened with Harry Potter. You get a bit of heat and everybody says you're this, you're that. Then it dies down. You just do jobs. I don't know any actor who's followed through, when they say he's the next this and then he actually has become the next that. I don't get that. I don't see what the point is.
How do you cope with the screaming fans at premieres?
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.
Did you ever imagine that girls would be obsessed with your hair?
That's the weirdest thing ever. I don't get that at all. It's really strange.
A lot of the gossip websites seem to have an obsession with you as well, don't they?
I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, What?. They always seem like they're six feet away. I don't understand. I'm walking around and I don't see anybody.

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Twilight premiere: fans brave cold to see Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

The 22-year-old English actor plays vampire Edward Cullen in the film, which has been touted as the "girl's answer to Harry Potter".
He was joined on the red carpet by co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays his teenage love interest Isabella Swan. Stewart, 18, arrived at the West End Vue Cinema in London's Leicester Square wearing a single-strap blue dress, apparently unconcerned about the bitter temperatures.
Twilight is based on the series of books by Mormon housewife-turned-author Stephanie Meyer which have sold around 14 million copies across the world.
The film, which raked in £24 million ($35.7 million) on its opening day in the US last month, is expected to catapult Pattinson – who played Hogwarts pupil Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter films – to international heart-throb status.
Pattinson was raised in Barnes, west London, and first trod the boards in Guys and Dolls at his local theatre group seven years ago.
In Twilight he stars as Cullen, a 108-year-old vampire who looks like a teenager and wins the heart of Stewart's character when she moves to his hometown of Forks, Washington.
The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, opens in cinemas in the UK on Dec 19.

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Twilight-mania, Robert Pattinson, invade Boston area.

Blast releases a special TWILIGHT EXTRA issue of the magazine on Monday with photos and video from the event, a longer interview with Robert Pattinson, our movie review, and more!

SAUGUS, Mass. — The teenage girl came out of the Hot Topic store, eyes glazed with a silly smile on her face. Her mother ran up to meet her, just as the words started tumbling out of the daughter’s lips.

He talked to me, she gasped, as her mother smiled along but tried to calm the teen down.

She has epilepsy, the mother explained, and I don’t want her to seize.

Then she scooped up her daughter and hurried away, without giving her name, to make room for the next giggling girl.

Fan dedication: defined.

She was just one of hundreds who flocked to the Square One Mall north of Boston on Friday. The object of their fanaticism wasn’t one of the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus, but rather a soft-spoken, spiky-haired Brit named Robert Pattinson.

In the words of one indignant passerby who was turned away from shopping at the barricaded Hot Topic: He isn’t even famous.

Though Pattinson, 22, may not be a household name yet, to the fan community of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire Twilight series, (and hardcore Harry Potter fans who remember he played Cedric Diggory) he is second to none. Playing the lead male character Edward in the upcoming vampire film Twilight, the fan hysteria has reached peak heights.

At first I thought maybe he wasn’t as good for Edward, but now I think he’s perfect, said Selys Rivera, 14, of Worcester. He’s completely perfect for Edward. He’s amazing.

Pattinson, along with co-stars Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Edi Gathegi and Rachelle Lefavre, is headlining the Hot Topic-sponsored movie tour to promote Twilight in the final days before the film’s release on November 21. The Saugus event was Pattinson’s third and final stop on the tour after the event scheduled in San Francisco was canceled after fans mobbed the mall.

Pattinson, Stewart, and the trio of Lautner, Gathegi and Lefavre toured to 13 cities across the U.S. from November 10 through November 15.

[The hysteria] hasn’t died down at all, Pattinson told Blast in a brief interview at the Saugus Hot Topic. It happened in [Italy], it happened in Mexico. It’s completely ridiculous.

Here in Saugus, the crowd was much tamer than the events in San Francisco and Chicago. Wristbands were given, starting at 9 p.m. Thursday, to the first 500 people who bought the Hot Topic official “Twilight” tour T-shirt. The Saugus police were no-nonsense about the event and were a steady presence around the mall throughout the night.

We got here at about 9 p.m. yesterday and we were there like all night long, said Attleboro resident Amanda Pease, 20. We only left to go to Starbucks.

At 5 p.m. Friday, a crowd of a couple hundred girls had gathered around a stage that was set up for Pattinson to speak to the fans for the question and answer portion of the event. Some had camped out for more than 20 hours just for the chance to meet their beloved Edward, while others had arrived only moments before to wait around until Pattinson spoke at on the stage.

A security presence was felt. A barricade was set up like a moat around the stage to protect Pattinson from the overzealousness of any rabid fan-girls.

Blast has not heard reports of any of the other Twilight character events going as wildly insane as Pattinson’s. His response to questions about whether he had talked to his fellow cast members since the tour began: I haven’t actually. Do you how they’re [events are] going?

A couple minutes after 6 p.m., the fans started to trickle out of the store with awe-struck faces and trembling hands.I went up there and he was so nice. He actually asked me like how everything has been and whether I was okay, and I was just like so speechless. I was just like, ‘I love you so much and I can’t wait to see you in the movie! I can’t wait to see you in all of your movies!’ said Pease, who admitted that she had not known Pattinson had acted in any other movie other than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Pease’s boyfriend, Bill Brauneis, 21, of Attleboro was a bit more conservative with his enthusiasm about seeing Pattinson.

It was great. I was looking forward to meeting him, he said.

The fan reactions were noted, even by the authorities that were there for security.

They all came out like zombies, like they’d been bit by a vampire,” said Saugus fire Lieutenant Eric Hansen.

Television crews swarmed on girl after girl who came out sobbing hysterically in the aftermath of meeting Pattinson. A couple kind words from the actor were translated into confessions of attraction and admissions of love.

One girl walked up to her group of friends after exiting the Hot Topic with a giddy smile on her face, whispered I told him I loved him, and burst into a bout of giggles.

He’s cuter in person, another girl proclaimed to the next batch of fans waiting to be admitted into the Hot Topic.

Pattinson said that when he was first cast into the role of Edward, he did not realize how big the Twilight phenomenon truly was.

If I was doing [the movie] now, knowing it was going to be this audience, I think I probably would have done it differently, said Pattinson. But I think, at the end of the day, it’s a good thing I went into it thinking [Twilight] is a small thing because it essentially is. It’s a small story; it’s an intimate story, and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing.

There is a lot of pressure on the actors and creators of the film adaptation of Twilight to get everything perfectly right for the fans who will scrutinize every detail of the film to see how it compares to the novel.

Most fans said that they liked all the clips of the film they had seen thus far, but 25-year-old Sarah Kontos of Worcester said that the raciness of the Bella and Edward make-out scene, shown in Summit’s final Twilight trailer, gave her pause.

In the book, she wears like ratty old pajama pants with holes in them, and she’s not like sexy, so it was weird to see that in one of the trailers, said Kontos. I kind of was mad. That would give people who didn’t read the book a totally wrong impression of that part.

Director Catherine Hardwicke has said in interviews that Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, asked her to tone down the make-out scene that was originally shot because she would have nothing to work with in the later adaptations of the novel.

As the crowds waiting for their signed posters thinned out, the police presence in front of the Hot Topic grew from three to 12 officers. Echoes of Robert! Robert! could be heard throughout the mall as the clock struck 7:30 p.m. and the fans gathered around the stage shouted impatiently for the culmination of their long wait. Though Pattinson was escorted through back passageways to get to the stage, a large crowd of fans who were not among the lucky 500 to meet Pattinson gathered around the entrance to the Hot Topic on the off chance that he would pass by them.

As soon as Pattinson appeared on the stage for the question and answer session, the chatter turned to a unified shrieking scream that thundered around the interior of the mall. Lieutenant Hansen had to plug his fingers in his ears to dull out the ear-piercing sound of what is sure to be the high point in some of the fans’ teenage lives.

The questions were submitted by fans earlier in the day and were handpicked by Pattinson. Pattinson may not be known universally, like Brad Pitt or Michael Jackson, but the obsession that surrounds him by his dedicated fan base is enough to counter the indifference of the general public. If Twilight is a success when it is released on Friday, the name Pattinson will be sure to mean something.

Though his initial popularity is based on his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and now Edward Cullen in Twilight, Pattinson has directed his focus toward indie films. His next major role is in the drama How To Be.

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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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