Robert Pattinson Daily

Every generation of pop culture followers has their bad boy poster child, and Generation Next is no different. But this time, there’s a twist. The bad boy du jour has a dark secret… let’s just say he’s not too worried about longevity, and is little concerned about the competition.

Immortality is a powerful new weapon for the claimant to the screaming teenage heart and Robert Pattinson delivers the goods with not one, but two mystical characters that have been making the ladies swoon.

Pattinson first twisted knickers in 2005 as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but immortality truly arrived when he took up the role of Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of “Twilight“ based on the wildly popular regular-guy vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer. The recently released DVD is flying faster than bat wings at dawn and the second sequel sequel “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” is in post production as we speak. For a bloke who’s been stirring up trouble for such a short time, Robert Pattinson has a very interesting story to tell.

Let’s hear it in his own words:

Like many heartthrobs before him, Robert Pattinson got his start as a teen model. According to his Wikipedia page, Pattinson began his modeling career when he was twelve years old, but it wound down only four years later. He has blamed his lack of work as a model on his masculine appearance. Pattinson explained in December of 2008, “When I first started I was quite tall and looked like a girl, so I got lots of jobs, because it was during that period where the androgynous look was cool. Then, I guess, I became too much of a guy, so I never got any more jobs. I had the most unsuccessful modeling career.”

On his sudden fame, Robert Pattinson tells Collider.com, “My brain doesn’t really accept it. So it’s fine. I can be put anywhere and it just goes completely over my head. I just don’t want to get stabbed or something. Literally, my representation asked me, ‘Do you have any problems with this? Is it going to be okay?’ I said, ‘I just don’t want to get shot or stabbed.”

The Twilight star talks to EW.com about landing the role, and the chemistry he felt immediately with co-star Kristen Stewart. There followed a strange couple of years where Pattinson lived off his Harry Potter paycheck, drifting between obscure parts in small films and TV. During a two-week run of auditions in Hollywood, he tried out for the role of Edward Cullen, a teenage vampire who is rich and perfect and princely in the way 17-year-old boys rarely are — and who falls not for the sexy cheerleader but the shy new girl in town.

”I’d read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part,” he says. ”Here’s this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy. Okay, I’m going to look like a complete idiot if I just try to do that — like give a half-Fonz, half-George Clooney impression. I went in thinking I would just break into hysterical laughter. But then I did it with Kristen and it was completely different. We had this chemistry that just worked.”

CelebTV caught up with Pattinson and asked about his love life, or lack of one…

“There’s literally not a single [true] story that could be written about me. I never do anything. There’s this thing about my supposed girlfriend. There’s this one girl who’s consistently mentioned. It’s like, ‘He’s dating this Brazilian model.’ What’s her name—Annelyse. I’ve never met her.”

While some rumors link Pattinson to Camilla Belle — who is also rumored to be dating Joe Jonas — the actor admits, “I mean, Camilla’s the nicest—she’s a saint. And it’s funny that she’s being portrayed as this home wrecker. She’s literally the most unlikely person to be a home wrecker. It’s just ridiculous. I don’t see people. I don’t even have people’s phone numbers. I almost don’t want to have a girlfriend, in this environment.”

See what Kristen Stewart has to say about being Edward Cullen’s dream girl Bella Swan in People Magazine:

“Oh, he’s like a little tortured artist. He’s British. He’s tall,” the 18-year-old actress says. “He always looks like he’s thinking about something. And he’s quite witty. So he’s pretty sexy.”

And yes, Pattinson proposed marriage to Stewart on set.

“I mean, I don’t know how serious he was, but yes,” Stewart says. “We spent a lot of time together, a lot of like really heightened time.”

“I can’t remember proposing to her,” Pattinson says, adding that he pops the question to women as a “good conversation starter.” “It used to be my thing, I would propose all the time,” Pattinson says. “Just go up to someone, you know, and say I love you or ask them to marry you. It always works.”

When you are the daydream of the moment, sometimes life is too busy for the fundamentals, like washing up.

Pattinson responds to rumors about his lack of hygiene on MTV.com:

When asked if it was true that he once said he hadn’t washed his hair for six weeks, the actor answered, “Probably. I don’t know. I don’t really see the point in washing your hair.”

He also revealed that if you plan on being an overnight guest at his place, you’d better be prepared for a messy apartment as well. “If you don’t care if your hair’s clean or not then why would you wash it?” he continued. “It’s like, I don’t clean my apartment ’cause I don’t care. I have my apartment for sleeping in and I have my hair for just, you know, hanging out on my head. I don’t care if it’s clean or not.”

It’s not clear if Robert Pattinson intends to clean up his act, but he does have some exciting plans for the future. He talked with Reuters about his future:

Pattinson, for one, is cautious.

“The book of ‘New Moon,’ the majority of it is incredibly depressing,” Pattinson said. “Obviously ‘Twilight’ was about finding first love and the difficulties of that, and ‘New Moon’ is really about loss and reconciliation. But the reconciliation isn’t completely full.”

“It’s a strange story to have for a market that, I guess, wants to see a love story,” he said.

Nevertheless, the London-born Pattinson said everyone involved is working to make “Eclipse” as big a success as “Twilight" and "New Moon.”

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