Robert Pattinson

Rob apparently enjoys playing doomed people: his big screen debut was as the sadly shortliving Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. Now he’ll be hitting the screen playing a gorgous vampire in one of the most eagerly awaited and blogged about book adaptations since Harry P, Twilight.

Rob was only seventeen back in the Harry Potter days, but already he was setting scores of young girls’ hearts aflutter. Now at 22 he’s still confused about the hype. In an interview with EW.com he talks about fans camping outside his door and getting photographed all the time.

Reading the book, which describes Edward as a hunk with huge abs, Rob hit the gym. By the time production was ready to start producers ‘Then three weeks before shooting the producers were like, ‘What’re you doing? You look like an alien!”’ he laughs. ”Oh, well, I thought it was a cool idea.”

Actually, Rob sounds like he’s still seventeen and trying hard to find his cool. Already he likened his screaming fans to ‘the gates of hell’. We wish him all the luck, because with the kind of attention he’s going to get the next few months, he’s going to need it. He’s darned cute though….

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