Robert Pattinson is on the cover of Vanity Fair's December issue and talks about his life since the Twilight phenomenon took over his life. Vanity Fair released some fascinating tidbits from the feature interview, in which Rob denies he's dating Kristen Stewart, but Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke implies that they are dating.
Rob, as usual, sounds quite down to earth and genuinely puzzled at all the fuss that is made about him.
On dating Kristen Stewart:
Robert Pattinson tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Evgenia Peretz that the rumors of his secret relationship with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart are untrue. "It doesn't make any difference what you say [to the tabloids]. I've literally been across the country [from Kristen], and it's like 'Oh, they were on secret dates!' It's like 'Where? I can't get out of my hotel room!'" As for Stewart, she sounds significantly more fed up about the whole thing: "It's so retarded," she tells Peretz. "We're characters in this comic book."
For the record, Pattinson insists that he and Stewart are really just "good friends," and that he deeply admires her. "I think she's the best young actress around," he tells Peretz. "She's influenced how I've done all the Twilight stuff. It's quite nice to have someone who is genuinely indifferent to the whole spectacle of everything."
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke's take on the romance:"What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other. Complex feelings for each other. It was what we needed. Complex, intense fascination."
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke on convincing the studio to cast Rob as Edward Cullen:
"They [studio execs] 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 color, do a different style. 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.' "
Rob's disbelief at being labeled as handsome:
Peretz describes Pattinson as self-conscious and self-deprecating, constantly apologizing for being boring, for telling you a story you might have read somewhere else already, or for the mess in his hotel room. "I'm unbearably self-conscious about stuff," he admits. He tells Peretz that he thinks he resembles "a cartoon character," and that one of his legs is longer than the other, which makes him look "like an idiot." Of his brief stint as a model, he tells Peretz, "I was such a terrible model. I was really tall but still looked like a six-year-old."
The December issue of Vanity Fair will hit newsstands nationally on November 10. New York and Los Angeles will have the magazine on November 4. You can see a web-exclusive slideshow of the outtakes from Rob's photoshoot with Bruce Weber here.
