Scans: Robert Pattinson in GLOSSY magazine — Holland

What’s the secret of sex symbol Robert Pattinson?
Those who never heard of Robert Pat tin son must have been liv ing on a deserted island the past two years. Ever since the 24 year old British actor played Edward Cullen in the Twi light Saga, there have been lots of women swoon ing over him. Glossy wanted to know: what makes this it-boy so sexy? Tossled hair, sultry eyes and a hot body are THE ingre di ents for a teen-idol and Robert Pat tin son has it all. But he almost didn’t become the star he is today. For the audi tion of Twi light, the first of the 4 Twi light Saga movies (based on the pop u lar book by Stephe nie Meyer) he made a video which never reached the cast ing direc tor. Robert thought he was so bad at act ing that he didn’t dare send it in. The fact that he even tu ally did get invited to audi tion was due to his part of Cedric Dig gory in Harry Pot ter and the Gob let of Fire. Cedric doesn’t make it to the end of the movie, but Roberts car reer started here. The Brit wasn’t con vinced though. Shortly after the audition he called his parents: “I told them ‘This is it, I’m quitting!’ and the only thing they said was ‘Okay’. That wasn’t the answer I was expect ing.” Robert needed all the sup port he could get. The hard­core Twilight-fans, called Twi-hards, weren’t that enthau si as tic about Robert play ing their favourite vampire. Stephenie Meyer, the ‘spiritual mother’ of Edward Cullen, was con vinced mis ter Pat tin son could do it and made sure he got the part in the Twilight Saga.


Crazy
To pre pare him self for the part, and to prove the Twi-hards wrong, Robert retreated for a while in the Amer i can city Port land. He was so focused, he closed him self off. ‘I didn’t talk much dur ing film ing and never went out with the crew, but halfway through film ing I thought: okay, peo ple might start think ing I’m really crazy’. Crazy or not, when Twi light hit the the aters in novem ber 2008, no twi-hard doubted if Robert was the per fect Edward Cullen. A star was born! Robert became in no time the most desir able bach e lor on the planet — fans call him lov ingly R-Patzz. But the fame didn’t go to his head. Rob was imme di atly very con cen trated for the sec ond movie New Moon. David Slade, direc tor of New Moon [note: this was Chris Weitz, Slade was direc tor of Eclipse — DreamySim1]: “Robert is very seri ous and will do any­thing to make his char ac ter believable/real. Not just for him self, but also for the audience.’ Who thinks Robert can only play the part of a sexy vam pire is wrong. Between shoot ing the two Twi light Saga movies he did an amaz ing job shoot ing the movie Remem ber Me. ‘I love play ing parts that are inspir ing, I don’t want to just play parts that are good for my career.’ he says. Robert doesn’t just get inspired by acting: his other pas sion, music, inspires him too. He started play ing the piano when he was very young and when he was 15 he started play ing the gui tar. Unfor tu natly he doesn’t get to make music much any more because of his tight worksched ule. “I do miss mak ing music very much”. For tu nately he could live out his pas sion for music on the sound track of Twilight with the song Never Think.

Sexy, but modest
Ofcourse it’s not just his act ing abbil i ties that make Robert so suc ces full, his sexy looks and bed room eyes do help. His par ents saw very early that Robert had a spe cial ‘look’ and enrolled him in an model agency. Even though he got reg u larly booked, he didn’t believe in it that much: ‘I was a bad model. I was extremely tall, but I still looked like I was 6 years old.’ Now he really has to believe it: R-Pattz is a sexsym bol. Last year Robert was voted most sexy man in the world by the Amer i can mag a zine Glam our and left Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp behind him. He also got a spot on the list of Sex i est Man Alive by the mag a zine Peo ple and got voted best dressed man. But Robert stays mod est under neath all the atten tion. His inse cu rity shows when he says he doesn’t under stand all the com mo tion about his appear ance: ‘One of my legs is longer then the other one, so I look like a com plete idiot. And the per son who pro claimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport out fit. The other day I was going to the gym and I realised that I wore my old sport out fit with my old worn down sneak ers and on top of that I wore my dress socks, the ones you only wear with a suit.’ He still can’t believe that there is a Bar bi edoll that looks like him: ‘it doesn’t look like me, but like Zac Efron.’

Holiday
Fans can’t wait for the last two movies of the Twilight Saga and Robert can’t wait either. ‘It always feels good when shoot ing starts again and I can embody Edward again. Espe cially the devel op ment Edward goes through is a chal lenge. In the first two movies he was very dis tant, but in Eclipse he shows more emo tions. Eclipse felt like a com pletely dif fer ent movie, as if I was play ing a com pletely dif fer ent character.’
Robert changed from the inse cure guy who was too afraid to send in his audi tion video and called his par ents to tell them his act­ing career was over to the golden boy of Hol ly wood. We will surely see a lot of him on the big screen. Robert: ‘This job is like going on a hol i day: each day I’m excited to go to work.’
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