“Twilight” and “New Moon” star Robert Pattinson says fame is overwhelming and he’s doing his best just to keep himself together. “I’m trying not to drown,” Pattinson, 23, says in the December issue of Vanity Fair. “I guess I’m not the type of guy cut out to do a franchise. I’m not much of a crowd person.”
When Robert landed his role as vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” franchise, director Catherine Hardwicke admits she had her work cut out in making him look attractive.
“They called me up and they literally said, ‘Catherine, do you think you can make this guy look good?’ So I said, ‘Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to get his hair back to a different colour, do a different style,” she told Vanity Fair magazine:
“He would work with a trainer from now on. My cinematographer is great with lighting. He will study the cheekbones, and I promise you, we’ll make the guy look good,” she added.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Rob, who’s in Japan this week promoting “New Moon,” set for release Nov. 20, skyrocketed onto the Hollywood A-list last fall, after the vampire romance Twilight rocked the box office, grossing almost 4oo million.
The modest Pattinson, who’s now the obsession of millions of fans, doesn’t understand why he’s considered a sex symbol.
“I’m unbearably self-conscious,” says the 6’1″ British hunk. “I was such a terrible model. I was really tall but still looked like a six-year-old.”
Rob reveals that he has one leg that’s shorter than the other, making him look “like an idiot” and that he thinks he resembles a “cartoon character.”
Ironically, it’s his self-deprecating humor that many of his female fans find so endearing about Pattinson.
As New Moon gears up to conquer the global box office later this month, Rob and his co-stars, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, are on a whirlwind press tour to promote the film.
This time, Pattinson is happy to step aside and let co-star Lautner, 17, be the breakout star. “I’m not the lead in the second film; Taylor is,” says Rob. “I appear in Bella’s dreams, so I’m in it but the focus is not on me.”
Adds Rob: “I just have significant moments at the beginning…and the end. So I’m more of a supporting role in this one. I didn’t have to deal with any of the bullsh-t of the first one. I don’t have to hold the movie or worry about the fans. I think I did it better without all those pressures.”
