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Pattinson's modesty is revealed even further in this interview, when he expresses his limitations as an actor. This incorporates Pattinson's humbleness and ordinariness into his star image.

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Do you want to hear a funny thing about Robert Pattinson? Robert Pattinson is convinced he doesn't know how to act. Willem Dafoe can act, Pattinson thinks. Willem Dafoe can act the socks off anyone in the business. And Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin Phoenix could tie his shoelaces on film and be nominated for an award. And Bruce Willis - Bruce Willis! - now there's a leading man. But Robert Pattinson? Nope. "I only know how to play scenes, like, three ways," he says. Three! That's all. Despite more than a decade in the industry. "I'm nervous on, like, every single movie."

Pattinson, who is 33, is sitting in a booth in a low-lit restaurant in Notting Hill, west London, dunking table bread into a pot of something. It's the early evening, dark and cold outside. He has arrived from rehearsals for The Batman, which started not long ago and which are taking place, to his delight, in the studio in which he filmed Harry Potter in the mid-aughts. The Batman is the first time he's worked in a studio in "like, forever," and his first mainstream leading role since he retired his best-known character, Twilight's Edward Cullen, sexy vampire. That was in 2012.

Maybe he's tired now. Or maybe he's had a bad day. Maybe he's arriving at the studio every morning and not quite getting Batman's vibe. Maybe he'll never get Batman's vibe, and people will finally agree he really can't act, and his career will come screeching to its inevitable end, and the whole world will fold in on itself.

Which are the kind of thoughts Robert Pattinson has.

"I'm a catastrophist," he says, laughing. Pattinson laughs a lot and goes for it: closes his eyes, throws back his head, reveals the square jaw and the fine stubble and the underside of the slightly skew-whiff nose, and lets out a loud, unfiltered giggle. "I'm always thinking that the worst-case scenario is actually going to happen. So when it does happen, I'm like: 'Gah! OK! I'm prepared!'"

Other actors suffer from bouts of false modesty. But Pattinson is wholeheartedly committed to the concept of his ordinariness. He is not "totemic," he says, like other traditional leading men. And he tends not to work hard in the lead-up to filming, because what if he somehow conjures some very good acting before an actual take, and can't reproduce whatever spontaneous fluke that created it when the cameras roll? "If I show it in rehearsals," he says, "then it's doomed to failure immediately."

It's strange to hear, all this worry and self-doubt, because over the past six or seven years Pattinson has been slowly, forcefully, making fine films with very good directors. He has worked with David Cronenberg on Cosmopolis and Claire Denis on , Werner Herzog on Queen of the Desert and the Safdie Brothers on Good Time. In, David Michôd's kind of retelling of Shakespeare's Henriad, which came out on Netflix earlier this year, Pattinson plays a French prince so brilliantly camp it was reported that his co-stars burst into laughter the first time they heard his accent. This kind of thing thrills Pattinson, because at least he got a reaction. "If I'm doing a scene and I see that the other actor is expecting me to do it the way I'm doing it, if I can just see that it hasn't surprised them, I immediately feel stupid," he says. Timothée Chalamet plays The King's titular monarch, but it's Pattinson scenes you remember: long blond hair; accent as thick as a block of beurre.

Next month, Pattinson will star in The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers's two-hander about lighthouse keepers descending into madness on a remote and craggy island. He appears alongside Willem Dafoe, the actual actor, which was nerve-wracking, of course. "He's got a tonne of energy," Pattinson says, "and it's intimidating." Before scenes, Pattinson would punch himself in the face, or twirl around to create dizziness, or drink mud from puddles, or force himself to gag. He explains the process as necessary - a wild attempt to maximise creativity - because, you remember, he's just so bad at acting. "Because I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought makes that a little bit easier is if you shake up your physical state just before action. You end up walking into a scene having a different" - pause - "feeling."

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'In a lot of ways I haven't developed past 15. I still like hip-hop, Van Morrison and Jeff Buckley': Robert Pattinson wearing Dior Homme. Photograph: Danielle Levitt/The Observer

Occasionally, Pattinson would gag so hard he'd throw up. "And I forgot I had a mic on the whole time, so the producers and the director, before every single take of the movie, would get..." He sits back in the booth and makes a loud retching sound. "It kind of puts everyone else off." What did his co-star think? "I don't know, I was too engrossed in my gagging."

In The Lighthouse, Pattinson's character grows slowly wilder and more febrile. And so, while filming, Pattinson thought he probably should, too. "I like doing whatever I can to not know what's going on. To be completely overwhelmed and disorientated. To feel like it's actually happening." Did it work? It did! To anyone watching, if not the actor himself, Pattinson emerges as Dafoe's on-screen equal. (Dafoe, noting Pattinson's lack of confidence, said recently: "How do I deal with this charming self-deprecation?") Word is The Lighthouse role might earn Pattinson an Academy Award nomination. Maybe a shot at a Bafta. Which is as good a nod as any to the fact that Robert Pattinson has quietly become one of Britain's best actors.

"I'm kind of amazed by how it's been received," he says. He's sipping a beer now, dunking the bread. "I love the movie. I think it's soooo cool. But I never would have thought..." He never thought people would actually see it - a small independent film he shot in 2018 - let alone absolutely love it, which has been the near-universal response. "It's done better than almost anything I've done in, like, ages, and it's the most random movie. Knowing there's a hunger for stuff that's very, very strange - that's cool! That's the stuff I like making!"

The general consensus is Pattinson turned to independent films to escape the interminable celebrity glare. Twilight birthed him into mega-stardom, and mega-stardom turned out to be a state into which he'd have preferred never to have been born, thank you very much. Fans hoped he might bask in the limelight, take on a few major roles, emerge as the leading man he was destined to become. But Pattinson didn't feel like playing along. He'd tasted the mainstream, and decided on the cusp. So we made up that Robert Pattinson had actively chosen the quiet life. That he'd turned against Hollywood. That he couldn't handle the heat. That he was trying to escape.

At one point, during the vampire years, escape required actual physical strategies. For example, sometimes he'd walk into a restaurant with friends, ask that they swap clothes halfway through a meal, and make a getaway while photographers waited for the handsome actor to exit the venue in the same outfit in which he entered. (Take that, Paps!) But appearing in art house cinema was a different escape strategy altogether - an opportunity to continue working while simultaneously blending into the background. He starred in films very few people paid to see on the big screen, the world thought, because a part of him longed to disappear. He didn't need the money any more; presumably Twilight had made him rich many times over. So why not?

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Centre stage: at the Rome Film Festival meeting fans of Twilight. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

But "No!" Pattinson says. He shakes his head. No. No. No. No. No. This hasn't been about escape. And he hasn't been trying to defy our expectations. Not strategically, anyway. He just hasn't been offered the roles. "Nothing ever came up for a big movie!" He did audition for Scorsese, and once for the Coen brothers, "but the whole world auditioned for those parts," he says, and who was he to walk up to Scorsese and demand work? "I guess there was a part of me that was a little trepidatious about doing, like, a long-running series" - a "saga". But really there was no conscious decision to avoid one, either. All he wanted was to work with the directors he admired, make the films he wanted to make. "There wasn't, like, a long-term plan."

And all of this talk of him being terrified of fame... It was never too much. For a while, Pattinson was one of the best- known people on the planet - "R-Patz", beautiful Edward, boyfriend and then not-boyfriend to Kristen Stewart - but that's how it goes. He actually thought it was cool! "I think the stuff about fame is the most boring," he says. "There's nothing to say. Literally think about what you imagine fame to be for one second. It's like that! People recognise your face. That's it." In the restaurant, nobody pays him much attention. Nobody looks over. Nobody points and giggles. Everything's different now, he says, but it wouldn't really bother him if it wasn't. "When I was younger, when I was a little bit more insecure, I kept thinking people were disappointed when they met me." And now? "Now I don't give a shit."

For a long time, Pattinson has been drawn to complex, often oddball characters. The camp French prince. The New York conman on the run. The criminal astronaut with a baby. He plays men called the Dauphin ( The King), or Connie Nikas ( Good Time), or Ephraim Winslow ( The Lighthouse). He rarely plays characters called Ben or Ryan or Joe. Edward is about as boring as it gets, and even then the character is a telepathic immortal.

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Magic touch: with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire co-stars. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images

"I'm not entirely sure how to play, like, a normal person," he says. "I don't think I'm great at subtle." He enjoys playing characters that are the opposite of his real self, which, he says, is totally normal and straightforward and low key. "I like characters who, when a situation is placed upon them, their decision-making process is incomprehensible." He laughs. "I find it fascinating when people make bad decisions. The humour and the befuddlement."

It is the versions of Pattinson that are somehow befuddled that are the most fun to watch. The befuddlement comes from within. "I guess I see the world a lot of the time and don't know what's going on," he says. "Like, I'm kind of disassociated. No, that sounds negative. More discombobulated." He laughs again. It's been like this forever. "I can't remember what book it's from, but this bit always really stuck with me, something I thought I could use as a good description of myself: there's, like, a dog in an elevator, and every time the doors open there's this whole new world, and it just can't figure out what's going on. That's, like, every day for me."

Pattinson grew up in Barnes, south London. It was leafy and calm. "A very, very nice childhood," he says. In his teens he went through a skateboarding phase, but he could never act the part. Then he went through a music phase. He never wanted to be an actor, but he very much wanted to be a musician. There was a time, before he was cast in Harry Potter and when he was still very young, when he played at an open mic night in London's Soho every Monday, presumably hoping for a break.

"In a lot of ways I haven't developed past 15," he says. "This is still my style of clothing" - he points to the skateboard T-shirt he's wearing - "and this is still my music taste. Like, hip-hop between 1997 and 2002. And Van Morrison. And Jeff Buckley. All the people I found at 14." He was a "space cadet" as a kid, he says. And still now. "But then I have periods of extreme ambition, of being very, very driven." His great gift, he explains, is not acting, but being excellent at choosing the right people to work with - people who can make him better.

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'Before filming, I do whatever I can to not know what is going on': Robert Pattison wears suit by Jacquemus and shoes by John Lobb. Photograph: Danielle Levitt/The Observer

"I think I've got good taste in movies," he says. "I can see, from a very short meeting, whether a director is going to make something good." Before working with the Safdie brothers on Good Time, he saw a single still image from one of their films, became convinced they should collaborate, and was overjoyed when they agreed. And when he took the call to say he'd got the job with High Life director Claire Denis, a director he'd long admired, he could "barely even stand up". "I sat down on a kerb, near here." He nods at the window. "And I was so high from it! There's nothing better for actors than getting the jobs you want. Nothing better. Especially when they're difficult to get." He kind of slaps the table. "There's nothing that feels better than achievement!"

The Batman is achievement, he says. Pattinson said yes to the part because "I felt a connection to it, I don't know why," but also because, "I just really wanted it." The role has a "power", which is why "everyone is attracted to it. It's an unidentifiable thing." But he's already sick of the questions. He just wants to get on with making the film. "I'm already remembering what it's like to

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The Batman will introduce a new Dark Knight now played by Robert Pattinson, and even though details about this version and the plot of the movie are scarce, there are enough to show how Pattinson's Batman will be different to previous movie versions. After its first wave of movies didn't perform as expected, especially Justice League, DC's movie universe (unofficially titled DC Extended Universe) decided to make some major changes. A couple of characters and their actors will remain, such as Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn and Jason Momoa's Aquaman, but others will have a full makeover and their stories will be retold from scratch, as is the case of Batman.

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The DCEU's Caped Crusader was introduced in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, played by Ben Affleck, and went on to appear in two more movies: Justice League and David Ayer's Suicide Squad. Affleck was set to direct and star in the DCEU's first solo Batman movie, but ended up leaving the project entirely in early 2019. Matt Reeves was later brought on board as director and Warner Bros. found its new Batman in Robert Pattinson. Now titled The Batman, the movie will bring a whole new version of Batman's universe, recasting all those roles previously introduced during Affleck's time.

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The Batman began filming in January 2020, and set photos quickly made their way online. Since then, Reeves has been a step ahead and shared on his Twitter account a test footage video showing Pattinson in the new Batsuit and later the first pics of his Batmobile. Still, plot details are being kept under wraps, and the only bits of information about the story and the character are those shared by Reeves in different interviews and events - but all of these are enough to get an idea of how this new Batman will be different to previous movie versions.

How Robert Pattinson Is A Different Actor To Previous Batman Stars

Without counting the two serial films from the 1940s, Batman and Batman and Robin, the Caped Crusader has gone through six different versions on the big screen: Adam West in 1966, Michael Keaton in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Val Kilmer in 1995, George Clooney in 1997, Christian Bale from 2005 to 2012, and Ben Affleck in 2016 and 2017. Each version has had a different tone, with some embracing a more comedic style (such as 1966's Batman), others going for a more comic book vibe (like Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns), and others aiming for a darker and more realistic tone ( Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy), but they have also been influenced by the actors playing the part.

Adam West was more comedy oriented (though he played characters from different genres throughout his career, but was typecast after the Batman series), while Michael Keaton is a more flexible actor, having played characters that go from Beetlejuice to Vulture to more serious roles without being pigeonholed. Val Kilmer's style is more action-comedy, Christian Bale is best-known for drama roles and his intense method acting style, and Ben Affleck has gone through pretty much everything - from failed comedies, to intense dramas, and a short-lived superhero career. Robert Pattinson is best known for playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, but there's much more to him than a sparkling vampire - you just have to look a bit further.

Robert Pattinson has worked with some big names in the industry, such as David Cronenberg and Claire Denis, and has played a variety of roles that prove that he has range and can play pretty much any character he wants. Pattinson is charming and has a great sense of humor, which shows in almost every interview, something that not all previous Batman actors have (Christian Bale, for example, has a reputation of not being the nicest person) and which will surely be reflected in his performance. Twilight might have been a shadow over his career for years, but the audience is ready to see this new phase in Robert Pattinson's career, and that's one of his biggest advantages over his predecessors.

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How Pattinson's Batsuit Is Different To Past Versions (& What It Means)

The test footage shared by Reeves was dark and under a red light, so it was hard to appreciate the details in Pattinson's Batsuit. The clearest look so far is in the Batmobile photos, but they don't offer a close up look to it. Still, Batman fans have already pointed out the similarities between this new Batsuit and those from the comics, and of course, the differences with previous Batsuits and what the new one tells about the character.

The Bat-symbol is the biggest difference in this new design, as it's carved into the suit and filled in with pieces of metal (that some fans have speculated are parts of the gun used to kill his parents) rather than molded into it or stitched. The new Batsuit has an overall armor-esque design, even more than Bale's, suggesting that even though he's in his detective phase, he has already gotten his dose of problems with dangerous criminals, and knows the type of suit he needs. Conversely, the cowl looks to be made of stitched leather, which seems odd given all the protection the rest of the suit has - though it's possible that this Batsuit has a hidden exoskeleton.

Pattinson's Batsuit doesn't look finished quite yet, which confirms that this will be a Batman in his early days as detective, and there's a lot of room for improvement for this Bruce Wayne. The design of the new suit also shows that Reeves and company are going for a more realistic Batman - and, thankfully, it looks nothing like the Batsuits in Joel Schumacher's movies, meaning that the metallic finish and the unnecessary and infamous "bat-nipples" are long gone.

How Pattinson's Batmobile Is Different To Past Versions

Pattinson's Batmobile is also very different to previous ones, and it shows a lot more about the style of the movie than the Batsuit. The design of the new Batmobile is far from the tank-like look of Nolan's, it's a lot less comic book-y than Burton's, and less dramatic than Schumacher's, instead going for a more DIY vibe. The vehicle looks like an enhanced muscle car, and it might even be a combination of (at least) two different commercial cars. The new Batmobile has an exposed rear engine and a couple of extras on the exterior, giving the idea that it wasn't built from scratch like the previous ones, and was instead built from a car (or cars) Bruce Wayne already had in his garage.

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The new Batman having a seemingly simpler car fits with Reeves' comments on The Batman leaning more towards a noir style and following the early years of the title character as detective. Surely, he will need some fancy toys at some point, as the criminals in Gotham City are no easy ones, but the Batmobile lacks all those theatrical details that previous versions had, as well as the heavy armor of some (Nolan's and Snyder's), hinting at a more grounded approach and a Batman that is still finding his style and learning about what he needs in order to successfully continue with this part of his career.

How Pattinson's Batman/Bruce Wayne Is Different To Past Versions

Plot details on The Batman remain a secret, but Reeves has stated that he's going for a " noir-driven, detective version of Batman", and will leave Batman's origins behind - so no more Thomas and Martha Wayne being killed in an alley. Although The Batman will be set in the DCEU, its connections to other works will be minimal, and there won't be cameos " servicing other stories". The Batman is looking to be its own thing in an already established universe, and it's already very different to previous versions of the Dark Knight.

The biggest difference is, perhaps, that it won't be an origin story. While Burton's version wasn't an origin story either, it did go back to it in Batman, with flashbacks and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) revealed to be the one who killed Bruce's parents. Nolan's Batman Begins followed young Bruce Wayne and all his journey into the character the world now knows, from the murder of his parents to his intense training. The Batman focusing on exploring the character's detective phase is also a big difference - although previous versions have included this side of him to some extent, none have actually delved into it.

Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is known and praised for its dark and realistic tone, but even that one has its elements of fantasy that don't quite fit with a realistic vibe, yet work well as it's pretty much Nolan's style. The Batman, on the other hand, seems to be going for a grittier and realistic tone, which fit with the exploration of his detective days. As the Batsuit and Batmobile show, this Bruce Wayne/Batman will rely more on strategy and intelligence than fancy, high-tech equipment, fitting the realistic approach.

It's unlikely Warner Bros. will reveal plot details on The Batman soon, but Matt Reeves will surely continue sharing first looks from the set without giving away too much. The Batman is already on its way to be one of the best cinematic adaptations of the Caped Crusader, and one that will stand-out from the rest for many reasons - and hopefully good reasons.

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How Robert Pattinson's Batman Will Be Different To Previous Movie Versions

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You'd think if you were an extremely good actor with both arthouse smarts and commercial clout, you'd have a fair idea of why exactly people want you to be in their films.

Every time your agent gave you a shout about, say, playing Batman, you'd presumably think, "Why do they want me? Oh yes, my arthouse smarts and commercial clout allied to my acting skills. Tremendous."

But not, apparently, if you're Robert Pattinson. Speaking to Esquire for the cover interview of our new issue - which is very good, by the way - Pattinson admitted that he's really not got his head around the whole Batman thing yet.

"It's kind of insane," Pattinson said. "I was so far away from ever thinking it was a realistic prospect. I literally do not understand how I've got it, at all."

The Lighthouse is the new one from Eggers, director of the lauded horror The Witch, and it's built up a lot of excitement for its its mix of claustrophobic horror, psychological tension and impressively bushy 1890s facial hair. Pattinson's co-star Willem Dafoe told Esquire what to expect.

"It's a beautiful script, very musical, the text is gorgeous," he said. "And I'm enough of a nature boy that I knew that we were gonna be in full-on nature. I'm enough of an athlete to know that there were gonna be some physical things to do. And I'm enough of an actor to know that it would be challenging to do this very full-blown character but to give him a reality that really gets under your skin."
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You'd think if you were an extremely good actor with both arthouse smarts and commercial clout, you'd have a fair idea of why exactly people want you to be in their films. Every time your agent gave you a shout about, say, playing Batman, you'd presumably think, "Why do they want me?

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Being topless in a black and white photo for the shoot makes reference to Pattinson's masculine star image, whilst keeping a sophisticated edge.

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Behind the scenes of Dior Homme advertisement (2020)

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Whilst this photo shows the successful side to Pattinson's star image as the face of a renowned brand, he is still represented as being energetic and comical, which is another big part of his star image.

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The interview highlights how Pattinson has evolved in style and fashion over his career, especially within the Dior Homme advertisement. It highlights Pattinson's more mature and successful image as he has grown as a strong actor.

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Robert Pattinson has come a long way since his Harry Potter and Twilight days. The British actor has just starred in the Oscar-nominated, Robert Eggers-directed film The Lighthouse and he's recently been unveiled as the next Batman and is the lead in Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Tenet. But Pattinson also has another key role keeping him busy and that's being the face of Dior Homme's current fragrance campaign.

Pattinson has worked with Dior for an impressie eight years, since 2012. "I never thought we would be doing it for this long," The actor told us. But with his chiselled good looks, that fine-tuned personal style and, of course, those intimidating acting chops, we're less surprised than Pattinson.

Being in a fragrance campaign has big perks for an actor. "No one was really working with brands on such a big level when I was approached. That said, it's been incredible and I've worked with directors that I wanted to do movies with anyway. I've been able to work with Jonathan Alric and Romain Gavras."

It's not just the auteurs he's been able to collaborate with that have been game changing for Pattinson. "If I was choosing to wear clothes myself, I don't think I would have gone in a lot the directions that I have ended up going in with Dior and people like Kim Jones," Pattinson said. "I never would have thought I would be wearing chiffon, silk and satin. I wore this tuxedo, which had basketball shorts last year - never would have imagined that!"

Though the days of dodgy outfits and ill-fitting cuts are behind him, Pattinson still cringes at the thought of his past style turns. One that stands out in particular is his look from the 2005 premiere of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. "I was wearing leather trousers with these cowboy boots and a velvet jacket. I mean, it literally looked like a kid had gone into a dressing-up box."

He's not tracked by the paparazzi as much in recent years as he was in his Twilight heyday - "I have so many terror memories of the paparazzi... and I still don full-on protective armour, hood up, hat down" - but he still thinks very carefully about what he wears, including, he says, the kind of items he absolutely can't pull off. "I wish I could dress like A$AP Rocky, he just has serious style," he admitted. "We have been to quite a few different fittings together and I will see the craziest thing and really want to wear it, but look like a total moron. Then we will go to the show and I will see Rocky in it and be like, 'Jesus Christ, you can literally wear anything!'"

Pattinson's day-to-day style is pretty simple, usually consisting of T-shirts and light-wash jeans, but there is one thing he relies on, which will impress hypebeasts everywhere. Pattinson has a penchant for sold-out Palace Skateboards x Adidas Originals trainers; he gets his team to source them on Ebay and Depop. "A fresh pair of them only comes up every eight months or so," he tells me. "I had a pair of them stolen off me once, but I saw them on Ebay and I know I bought them back off the thief. I have alerts on when they're being sold; I'll soon own every pair in existence," he says, laughing.

But now that he is nearing his mid-thirties, and is a spokesperson for a grooming giant, it's his skincare that he's really decided to focus on (I'm addition to acting, of course.) "As I am getting older I'm definitely noticing things. I used to not do anything at all, up until a few years ago, and I can definitely see the difference [in my face now], especially if I am travelling a lot."

Pattinson's secret to giving his skin that youthful glow? "It's very American Psycho, but those sheet masks make a massive difference. I'm fully committed and I even put an eye mask on over the top too. Try it!" At the time of talking, Pattinson has been off shooting Nolan's Tenet for seven months and hasn't been home once. "Self-care is important. I really appreciate coming home even though it's only for a few days, just to give my skin and body a rest," he finishes.

The next couple of years are set to be the biggest in Pattinson's career, making intervals for self-care even less likely. He is currently filming Matt Reeves' - which has its own physical demands, as seen with previous Batman portrayers - while Tenet will hit screens in July.

Until then, you'll be able to see him dance, give plenty of sultry looks and don a superb tuxedo in the Dior Homme campaign.

Dior Homme EDT is available from 6 March at dior.com

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Robert Pattinson has come a long way since his Harry Potter and Twilight days. The British actor has just starred in the Oscar-nominated, Robert Eggers-directed film The Lighthouse and he's recently been unveiled as the next Batman and is the lead in Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Tenet.

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This behind the scenes image, published by Dior, emphasises the carefree and lively part of Pattinson's image. He is not taking himself too seriously, and enjoying his project, demonstrating his well grounded and pleasant image.

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Jack Whitehall Live at the Apollo video (2014)

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This video demonstrates the criticism that Pattinson faced from the roles that he played in the Twilight franchise and romantic dramas thereafter. It shows that Pattinson was labelled as an actor who could only fit one genre, and plays every role in the same way. This contradicts his current diverse and versatile image as an actor of different genres.

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ROBERT PATTINSON IS NOT A GOOD ACTOR! - Jack Whitehall | Live at the Apollo | BBC Comedy Greats

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Where Pattinson appears in the movie trailer, he appears sharp, well-groomed and composed. Dressed in a smart business suit, the role seems to be incorporating his mature and sophisticated image.

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TENET Official Trailer (2020) Robert Pattinson, Christopher Nolan Movie HD

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Wonderland is renowned for offering unique and extraordinary perspectives on global talent. By featuring in this magazine and being styled in peculiar ways, Pattinson again demonstrates his indie and playful image, with the aim to inspire others.

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These images show the experimental side to Pattinson's images as they demonstrate his willingness to push himself out of his comfort zone at the risk of being potentially criticised.

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The video, released by director, Matt Reeves, gives the first look of Pattinson as Batman. It is a dark, mysterious and sexy teaser, all features which are also incorporated in Pattinson's star image.

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Dior Homme - The New Fragrance advertisement (2020)

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Dior Homme - The New Fragrance advertisement (2020)

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Pattinson is once again dressed in a clean-cut and elegant suit, highlighting his sophisticated image. The song used, ‘I’m your man’ highlights Pattinson's heightened maturity. He is represented as the assertive and dominant ideal male, as he cradles and protects the woman in the advertisement, making him desirable. The brand creates an image of Pattinson that would make women want to be with him and men want to be like him, making reference to his desirable and heartthrob image. Although it represents Pattinson as the strong, secure and compelling hetereosexual male, it also features the quirky and humorous part of his star image. Pattinson is still playful and fun in the advertisement, keeping the true and natural part of his image at the core of the advertisement.

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In recent years, Robert Pattinson often appears in GQ, a monthly men's magazine. It mainly portrays images of the ideal male, suggesting that Pattinson is an aspirational image for the ordinary man. It suggests that masculinity has become ingrained within Pattinson's image so much that he has become the epitome of a man. The idea that only teenage girls look up to Pattinson is contradicted.

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Teaser images and videos were released prior to the official advertisement release in September 2013. The brand used Pattinson's high profile to their advantage, exciting fans and viewers with anticipation about what his latest project was.

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Get hair like Pattinson - GQ article (2018)

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Get hair like Pattinson - GQ article (2018)

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Again, this article shows that Pattinson's image has become an ideal, and one that many aspire to have. It suggests that people want to imitate his image and be associated with him due to his masculine star image.

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2014, part 2: Don't do this.

2015: Iconic Pattinson. Not everyone can pull of sideburns like this. But it works for him because his eyebrows are so defined-making those sideburns and eyebrows work in tandem. But I'm mostly applauding the perfectly styled, artfully disheveled coif. (Get it yourself with hair paste styled damp, blown dry, then locked with hair spray).

2016: Pattinson went back to his messy roots in 2016, but looked a little more heavy metal than rock 'n roll since his hair was dyed black. Speaking of roots, note that his hair is combed back, showing no signs of roots. He's only just colored the hair, but will only have a week or two before the natural color shows through. If you dye your own medium-to-long style, wear it down instead of back, so that you buy more time by not exposing the roots.

2017: This September 2017 GQ cover makes me so happy: It's classic Pattinson, with texture and volume and a "what are you looking at" downward stare. But it's clean, and intentional and... mature. As in, he's clearly graduated from the boyish styles of his 20s. This is a sophisticated way of saying you don't care, even if it requires 20 minutes with a strategically aimed blow dryer, hair spray, and some texturizing stylers.

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Here's How to Pull off Robert Pattinson's Hair

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2014, part 2: Don't do this. 2015: Iconic Pattinson. Not everyone can pull of sideburns like this. But it works for him because his eyebrows are so defined-making those sideburns and eyebrows work in tandem. But I'm mostly applauding the perfectly styled, artfully disheveled coif.

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Dress like Pattinson - GQ article (2018)

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Dress like Pattinson - GQ article (2018)

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Featuring Pattinson within the GQ men's fashion guide suggests that Pattinson's fashion sense is something that adult men admire, demonstrating how his teenage image is overpowered by maturity.

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Robert Pattinson's vampire days might be long behind him, but the 31-year-old actor still dresses a little bit like the king of the underworld in his real life. Think: dark round sunglasses, slim black suits, and dress shirts worn in less-than-dressy ways. Pattinson's relationship with Dior Homme is partly to thank for his slightly vampiric style leanings-the French house, headed up by Belgian designer Kris Van Assche, is known for its blackout tailoring and menacingly cool accessories. Throw in the fact that Pattinson likes to rock the kind of skate, street, and workwear that melts internet hearts when he isn't suited up for an event and you've got a recipe for, um, killer style. Here, some of our favorite Robert Pattinson style moments of the last year. The man has come quite a long way.

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The Robert Pattinson Guide to Dressing Like a Badass

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Robert Pattinson's vampire days might be long behind him, but the 31-year-old actor still dresses a little bit like the king of the underworld in his real life. Think: dark round sunglasses, slim black suits, and dress shirts worn in less-than-dressy ways.

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In this article, Pattinson argues that he is not conforming to the rules of a mainstream big studio actor once again. This suggests he still differentiates himself from Hollywood even when playing a role in a major blockbuster. It contradicts the idea that he is returning to Hollywood, maintaining his arthouse career and indie part of his image.

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The Lighthouse is a delirious, black-and-white horror drama about two 19th-Century lighthouse-keepers fending off seagulls, mermaids and their own rum-fuelled madness on a tiny island off the coast of New England. To put it another way, it is a typical Robert Pattinson film. Just over a decade ago, the British actor shot to superstardom by playing a sparkly-skinned, lantern-jawed vampire in the Twilight series. Before that, he set young hearts a-flutter as Hufflepuff hunk Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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But ever since then, Pattinson has rejected pin-up roles and mega-budget franchises in favour of the weirdest experimental indie movies possible. Whether he is having his prostate prodded in the back of a futuristic limousine in David Cronenberg's Don DeLillo adaptation, Cosmopolis, or getting lost in space with a sex-obsessed mad scientist in Claire Denis' High Life, or exploiting a teenage girl and his own disabled brother in the Safdie brothers' sleazeball crime farce, Good Time, he gravitates towards, in his words, "things which are a bit perverse and a bit crazy".

It's tempting to feel sorry for Pattinson's agents, who must have spent the last decade begging him to play a stammering fop in a romantic comedy or a suave secret agent in a spy movie - anything, really, except a taciturn, masturbating, sewage-splattered lighthouse-keeper. But Pattinson laughs at the idea. "I think they've known about my taste from the beginning. My agent always says that if they like a script, and if the character is in any way normal, they want to edit it before giving it to me so that the first character description would be, 'John, 31 - psychopath.'"

Pattinson, 33, doesn't seem too psychopathic in person, when we meet on a December afternoon. Dressed all in black, from his shoes to his backwards baseball cap, the actor formerly known as R-Patz perches on the edge of a low sofa in a London hotel room, with that famous chin resting in his hand, and launches into elaborate anecdotes and theories with disarming openness, offbeat humour, and plenty of cheerful English public-school self-deprecation (see also: Olivia Colman, Hughs Grant and Laurie).

You can see a lot of examples of Hollywood not really working out for people so I thought it would be a silly idea to do a massive action movie or something

His bold post-Twilight choices, he insists, weren't so bold, after all: attempting to trek to the top of the Hollywood A-list would have been "much more dangerous" than going down the independent road. "You can see quite a lot of examples of it not really working out for people," he says, naming no names, "so I just thought it would be a silly idea to try to do a massive action movie or something." He was also aware that his stratospheric celebrity status might plummet down to Earth at any moment. "I always think that whatever movie you're doing, there's a potential that it's the last movie you're ever going to get, and so I don't want to end my career on a 'transitional' movie."
An arthouse power-player
Instead, he has devoted himself to the kind of challenging films he likes to see himself. "When I first started getting into film, the movies that I'd be buying DVDs of would be slightly obscure things from Cannes or whatever. And I just think... I don't want to feel like someone's trying to entertain me. It's like if you go to a party and there's someone there who's just trying to entertain everybody. You might have a chuckle at them, but you know they're really just a throwaway, pointless person with no depth." He smiles at how cruel this sounds - and carries on, anyway. "But if someone's very much themselves and has an intriguing, independent point of view, then they are an interesting person to converse with. I just look at movies the same way."

This viewpoint has made Pattinson the toast of the aforementioned Cannes, among other international film festivals. Year after year, he strolls down the red carpet at these events to promote dramas which probably wouldn't have been funded without him. "I definitely am on the side of trying to get independent movies into theatres and getting somebody to see them," he says. "I think if every single obscure filmmaker was just completely drowned out by conglomerates then that would be an awful thing."

He contacted Robert Eggers, the writer-director of The Lighthouse, after seeing his supernatural debut, The Witch. "Even though it was his first movie, you could see how ambitious it was," he says. "It was so detailed and dense and academic, but also really scary, and you could see that he could do a lot with a low budget." Eggers and Pattinson were soon discussing potential collaborations, but Eggers kept pushing him into the type of English aristocratic role that he had been so determined to avoid. "I said to him at the end of one of our meetings: 'I only want to do stuff that's really, really, really crazy.' He thought for a bit and said: 'I've been writing this thing with my brother, and if this isn't crazy enough, I don't know what is!'"

I remember my agent saying 'You're not really on anybody's list. The movies are well reviewed, but they aren't big hits'

The Lighthouse is undoubtedly crazy enough. With its archaic nautical language, chiaroscuro visuals and mind-warping plot, Eggers' frightening yet surprisingly funny gothic sea shanty is so hard to categorise that even the staff at its distributors, A24, would take Pattinson aside during production and warn him that it might not find an audience. But The Lighthouse got nothing but gushing reviews when it debuted at Cannes last May, and audiences and critics (me included) have since hailed it as one of the most exhilarating films of the last 12 months. In the meantime, there have been other indicators that Pattinson's level of fame might be bobbing back up to Twilight levels.

"I literally started this year with no job," he says, referring to 2019. "I remember my agent saying, 'You're not really on anybody's list. The movies are well reviewed, but they aren't big hits.' And then a week later I got another call out of the blue: 'Do you want to be in a Chris Nolan movie?' I was like: 'Wait - how did that happen?'"

As well as featuring in Christopher Nolan's time-twisting thriller, Tenet, which is released in July, Pattinson is squeezing into the bat suit vacated by Ben Affleck to star in Matt Reeves' The Batman. But he maintains that he is not plunging into the Hollywood mainstream. Nolan, he argues, is an indie auteur who just happens to have colossal budgets at his disposal, and Batman is one of the "crazy and perverse" characters he usually plays. "Out of all the big roles that I knew of in that kind of realm," he muses, "there was just something about this one."

Maybe Pattinson can teach us all a lesson about having the courage of our convictions. By sticking to his own niche taste in films, he gets to be one of the saviours of arthouse cinema - and yet he gets to flirt with blockbusters and be the saviour of Gotham City, too. Who else has a career like his? The only actor who springs to mind, strangely enough, is Pattinson's Twilight co-star and ex-girlfriend, Kristen Stewart. He grins so widely at this comparison that his eyes crinkle up and disappear. "That's because no one realised that Twilight was an arthouse movie. It's part of the same thing. In a few years, people will suddenly realise - ah, it was arthouse! I totally missed it!"
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Robert Pattinson: 'Twilight was an arthouse movie!'

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The Lighthouse is a delirious, black-and-white horror drama about two 19th-Century lighthouse-keepers fending off seagulls, mermaids and their own rum-fuelled madness on a tiny island off the coast of New England. To put it another way, it is a typical Robert Pattinson film.

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This article, which summarises the release of the Dior Homme advertisement, suggests that Pattinson represents everything that a man should want to be. It reiterates the idea that many heterosexual males see Pattinson as an aspiration and shows how his masculinity is a key part of his star image.

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A funny, quirky, strong, self-assure and a dance-like-nobody's-watching attitude is on display as Robert Pattinson crushes it in his performance in the newly-launched fragrance campaign for Dior Homme.

Accompanied by a soundtrack of Lenoard Cohen's "I'm Your Man", The Batman star showcases a roadmap of every man that you want to be... even making to otherwise awkward dance moves look cool.

"It was interesting to play all those roles in such a short stint," Pattinson tells Esquire Middle East. The face of Dior Homme since 2013 described the part in the film where he put a protective arm across his female companion as "really cheesy on set...but when you see the final edit it looks great"

Tasked with creating 'a portrait of the modern man' Dior perfumer Francois Demachy realised the latest fragrance by with a strong woody scent.

"The signature of this composition is an overdoes of sensual woods," says Demachy. "The new Dior Homme gets straight to the point; it claims a frank, solid simplicity. Appealing, but conceals an enveloping softness."

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Robert Pattinson is every man you want to be in new Dior Homme campaign

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A funny, quirky, strong, self-assure and a dance-like-nobody's-watching attitude is on display as Robert Pattinson crushes it in his performance in the newly-launched fragrance campaign for Dior Homme. Accompanied by a soundtrack of Lenoard Cohen's "I'm Your Man", The Batman star showcases a roadmap of every man that you want to be...

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Making a return to the blockbuster scene, Pattinson features in the highly anticipated and upcoming film Tenet, directed by big Hollywood filmmaker Christopher Nolan. This film will demonstrate Pattinson's versatility, as it has been described as an action film, showing Pattinson's diverse image. First looks of Pattinson in the production incorporate his sophisticated star image as he appears in a mature role.

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In 2019, it was announced that Robert Pattinson would be playing Batman in the new film directed by Matt Reeves. Signing a three picture deal, Pattinson is going back to big studio productions, which he has seemed to have avoided over the past few years. It demonstrates his capabilities and versatility as an actor, maintaining his professional and successful star image. Although the movie is yet to be released, the role of Batman incorporates Pattinson's masculine star image. The role itself conforms to constructs of masculine identity, demonstrating how Pattinson's image even effects the movie roles he is given.

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Pattinson has been an ambassador for the Dior Homme brand ever since it was announced in 2013. He has continued to be a symbol of the prominence and power of the brand, demonstrating how strength and masculinity have become fully integrated within his star image.

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Robert Pattinson is reverting from indies and making a return to Hollywood and big studio productions. Since his change of career in indie film, Pattinson has been more widely recognised as a versatile actor and has meant he has been considered for big blockbuster roles that he may not have been if he had just continued down the route of female-targeted genres.

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In the pictures from this interview, Pattinson is wearing many lavish and extravagant brands, showing his more mature and refined image.

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So it's settled, says Rob Pattinson, we're going to do ayahuasca together! Ayahuasca is an Amazonian hallucinogen that people take to journey to the center of themselves, usually with a shaman, usually on a retreat, and it is a totally normal and valid way for us to spend one of our two days together, I completely agree. Yes, Rob, let's do it. For the great big stunt of our GQ cover story, let's take great big doses of ayahuasca. Let's slide down the gooey tunnels of our ids until we Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich. Then I look it up. There's a really long period of your trip where you're just vomiting. But we're up for some vomiting! Nobody here is a newborn babe who can't handle a little reverse peristalsis! We just met, after all, and what better way to get to know each other than a little kayak into each other's insides? Me and Rob Pattinson! Vomiting up a storm! What a story! But-but-maybe all that vomiting would make it hard to talk? Maybe it would change our psyches irreparably and return us to our loved ones forever altered? It might, right? Back to the drawing board. But you know what they say: There are no wrong ideas in a brainstorm.

So it's settled, says Rob Pattinson, we're going to swim with sharks! No one's done that, right? The best way we can get close to some edge of existence, he thinks, is to swim with sharks, daring them to eat us. I suggest that maybe ayahuasca brings us to the edge of existence, too? And wouldn't it be hard for me to write this if one of us (me) got eaten by one of those sharks? Sure, sure, he gets it. Anyway, he says, "I'm afraid something will happen that makes me look like a pussy." Which is fair, and so we're not going to do it.

So it's settled, says Rob Pattinson, we're going to a Russian spa in West Hollywood! Sure! Let's sit together in a spa, me in my bathing suit and you, Rob Pattinson, in yours, and you can talk about your workout regimen, and I can tell you about the care and maintenance of my C-section scars! Both of them! Argh, but a friend told him he'd seen Justin Bieber there, and Pattinson was like, no way, he will not be Bieber-derivative, which I support. (And usually spas are gender-separated?)

So it's settled, says Rob Pattinson, he's gonna come to me! Yes, he wants to infiltrate my suburban life. How's that for turning this whole thing on its head? He'll come to where I have coffee every day, at the Able Baker, and we'll have a latte and a cookie, then haul over to do camp pickup with the kids. Yes! Me and Rob Pattinson! In New Jersey! Yes, come on over, Rob. The kids get picked up at 3:50! Bring a snack or the younger one will bitch you out for hours! Shoot, no, he has to go to Paris to get photographed for his Dior campaign in two days, so that won't work with my deadline.

Pattinson, bless him, brings an unfiltered, uncut fire to each idea. Me, I am getting whiplash from nodding vigorously as I consider them. I am excited just to bear witness to his enthusiasm for all the ways you could eat the world. But I am also inspired by him. He really wants us to walk out of here with an amazing plan.

Here, incidentally, is a very quiet, virtually unknown café that he likes, just a few blocks from his house in some part of some part of Los Angeles. He asks that I don't print where this is, since he comes here a lot, mostly because of the [privacy feature]. He sits here every day, same table, eating the same [house special scramble], hold the [thing that makes the scramble delicious], and he never sees anyone here, and he'd like to keep it that way. Sure, I say.

Suddenly, his eyes are a fever. He knows what we're going to do. "Let's get fecal-matter transplants," he says. This is roughly his ninth suggestion (I've spared you some) for how we might spend our time together, but it's number one in experimental procedures that are not yet fully FDA-approved. He's been reading about it-he reads about everything, from stories about psychology to linguistics to fecal matter-and he cannot stop thinking about the possibilities. "It works," he insists. "You can have an athlete's shit put inside you and then you're an athlete afterwards." Imagine that! An athlete's shit! Turning you into an athlete! It's real! It might be real. It's probably not real. But he's just read about a woman with chronic fatigue who did a DIY fecal transplant and now she is totally fine. In fact, someone Pattinson knows did it; he spoke to that someone just yesterday, and that someone's life has changed materially as a result-he can't tell me who it is, because that someone is someone, but my God, we need to do this. So here's the deal: We're going to transplant each other's fecal matter! I will become more like Rob; Rob will become more like me. No one's ever done that before, right?

I look up from my notebook and blink. He is rubbing the fine layer of stubble resting luckily on his jawline, which you could hang your dry cleaning on. We sit back and consider. You know, if this is too hard, we could just come here again, I say. Maybe we could just not do anything and just come here. He shakes his head. That won't do. No, we're going to do something.

He stares at the iced coffee he ordered. He used to drink "a million" cups a day, but lately, since he turned 31, he finds that it's making him crazy. "Yeah," he says, "if I have a little bit too much, I'll suddenly think the trapdoor in the bottom of my life is falling." Plus, too much coffee is like truth serum for him (hey, what if we did truth serum?), but he still loves coffee. So far he's had maybe one and a half fingers of a regular-size cup. He puts his fist up to his heart. "I already feel like I had a speedball." He lets out a kind of cackling laugh after he says this-head back, launching upward-but it comes out almost like a moon-howl. He laughs like this after almost everything he says, which is an intense way to communicate. When he talks, he tugs on the chest hair near his clavicle so that the bits of skin attached to each follicle pull up and form a miniature mountain range. We sit perpendicular to each other, and he keeps on his Helmut Lang sunglasses. Sometimes he looks at me, but mostly he looks at his scramble and at his dog, Solo, whom he has brought along-he shares the dog with his romantic partner, the experimental British musician FKA Twigs-and who has a Mohawk.

"I can commit so wholeheartedly because I think it's so stressful being in a thing where you're just constantly second-guessing everything all the time."

Okay, so a fecal transplant. Check. A doctor will creep his (or her!) way into our colons and replace our poop with each other's poop. Why not? What do we have to risk, other than infection and death?

So it's settled, I say. I am game for it. I was game for all the others, too, because this is exciting for me, for someone to be as into this as much as I am. Maybe he wants to do something he's never done before, or see something he's never seen before, or be someone he's never been before. It seems like this is the only criterion for how he wants to spend our time, just as it seems to be the only common denominator among the movies he chooses to make now: It has to be something new. It has to deliver a real connection. It has to teach him something about himself and test him.

His new movie-his first starring role in years, made by a pair of gifted young brothers named Ben and Josh Safdie-is definitely a test. It's called Good Time, and it is a locomotive that will grab you by the chest hairs near your clavicle for 100 minutes; Pattinson classifies it as the "panic genre." He plays a desperate low-level con artist in Queens trying to protect his little brother after a bank robbery gone wrong. Without giving too much away, let's just say it's intoxicating to watch someone never slow down over the course of 24 hours and not once in that time make a good decision.

Yes, the new Rob Pattinson is defined by his willingness to go berserk or go home. But maybe it's just on-screen. Already Pattinson is reconsidering the fecal matter. Fecal transplants probably aren't something that can be arranged in a day, even when you're Rob Pattinson. Probably you need a diagnosis code or something. They probably aren't as easily accessible as a colonic, and at this point who hasn't done a colonic with a journalist? Anyway, he adds, maybe with some menace, "if we did a swap, I don't know if you'd be able to handle my shit."

As we continue to discuss ideas for our big something, I bat away my thought about what these ideas also have in common, which is that they all render me incapacitated, unable to ask him any questions, and him unable to answer any. We'd be in different rooms, or on a hallucinogen, or in the belly of a shark, or in surgery, for Chrissake. But no, it couldn't be that. It has to be this: That after years of playing dead, Rob Pattinson feels alive again.

Yes, that has to be it.

He spent his formative acting years suspended in Twilight, playing a vampire who mostly just stood there, brooding-an inert emo-reactor to his cis-mortal heroine, played by Kristen Stewart. If you've never heard of it, because you were in an underground prison with no access to the outside world, or even other prisoners, a brief recap: It's about two co-dependent teenagers (one of whom has been a teenager for 100 years) in a super-toxic relationship that unfolds over five movies in the small town of Forks. The blood of this lonely, virginal teenage girl gives off a scent that is like heroin to this teenage vampire who lives there, meaning he wants to eat her but also that he wants to love her. By the end of the third movie, they still haven't slept together. Finally, in movie four, the two have sex, which they feared might kill her. But she then immediately becomes pregnant, and that actually does kill her. What is the opposite of subtext? Did I mention the town where this takes place is called Forks?

"When I find someone who I have an instinct about, I find it quite easy to completely give myself to that person."

When the cameras stopped rolling, Pattinson was surrounded by oceans of admirers who made his world small and paranoid. So you can maybe understand why, freed up by all of those coffins full of Twilight residuals, Pattinson is now doing what he's always wanted to do: making movies that are relentless and dark and kinetic and subversive. He could've gone a lot of different ways after Twilight; the world loves a pallid British super-villain. But it would've been more standing still: the CGI, the green screens, the waiting around in his trailer. Plus, he says, "I think you have to have a specific type of confidence to be in those movies." He was confident he didn't. He couldn't just stand there and be defiant, the way villains do. He couldn't stay on one note and mean it.

Instead, he plunged himself into a series of gritty art-house movies, which, of course, is a strategy favored by just about every teen idol trying to go legit. But this is different in that he doesn't appear to be picking these projects with a calculated eye toward prestige, or even edge. His recent films are unified primarily by the fact that they feature directors who are great and mostly unheralded, and characters who are a little scary to play. Hardly anyone saw any of these movies, and he says he never expected them to. The point wasn't for people to see the movies. And so far, he's been right nearly every time. So far, it appears that Rob Pattinson has killer taste.

Cosmopolis, his first post- Twilight movie, gave him the chance to work with his lifelong hero and favorite director, David Cronenberg, and to try his hand at (a very dark sort of) comedy. His character, a nihilist finance bro in the age of Occupy Wall Street, sits in the back of a limo for the duration of the film. He loved Cronenberg. He loved working for his hero. But still, there wasn't a lot of movement. Edward Cullen's most notable attribute, besides his looks-powdered face, strong lip, clenched jaw, which would slice through his hand if he rested it there-was his stillness. After that, he wanted some motion. He wanted to floor it.

He started noticing how supporting roles got to be wilder and more eccentric, how they weren't subject to the stolid requirements of a leading man, so he went and did a bunch of those- The Rover, Queen of the Desert, The Lost City of Z -much smaller films that allowed him to move, tinker, alter his appearance. You could watch The Rover, a brutal Australian-made post-apocalyptic heist-revenge tale, without realizing until the credits roll that you've been watching Rob Pattinson the whole time. "Yeah?" he asks happily when I say this to him. He loves that. Hearing that is the best thing he could hear. Next up: a project with the visually sumptuous French filmmaker Claire Denis, someone he's been wanting to work with forever. "It's a lot about sexual fantasy," he tells me, "and how your past intermingles, and this thing about kind of having your semen stolen from you in a spaceship and like forcibly impregnating people." Look for it in theaters soon!

Pattinson came across the Safdie brothers in his endless reading. What caught his eye was a single still image from the last movie they directed, a much admired 2014 heroin-junkie drama called Heaven Knows What: It was a close-up of the film's star, Arielle Holmes-stringy-haired and staring warily beneath a hot pink filter-whom the Safdies met one day in Manhattan's Diamond District and decided to make a movie about. When Pattinson first saw the image, on a film-geek website, the movie wasn't even out yet. But he couldn't look away. He reached out to them immediately with a blind note saying he was a huge fan and that he wanted to be in their next project. Just to reiterate: He hadn't even seen the movie yet. But he didn't care. He was hooked. "I want to disappear into a role," he told them.

Good Time did not exist in any form until Pattinson reached out. The Safdies were in the middle of another movie when they got Pattinson's note, but they invited him to talk and showed him the finished version of Heaven Knows What. "He said he just wanted to be part of that energy," Josh Safdie told me. "Rob is constantly overturning rocks to see if he can find a worm to eat. He is genuinely interested in discovering things."

To prepare for Good Time, Pattinson spent weeks in New York just walking around Queens, asking friends of the Safdie brothers to read the lines from his script back to him until he got the accent right. He read The Executioner's Song and In the Belly of the Beast because Josh mentioned them in passing. He lost weight, dyed his hair blond, got two actual earrings (he didn't realize the holes never go away), and began to creep into the role of Connie, a petty criminal with dubious morals, redeemed only by his devotion to his intellectually disabled brother. One day, Pattinson and Ben Safdie, who plays the brother, went into a Dunkin' Donuts in Yonkers, and Ben tried ordering coffee in character, getting more and more agitated, just as his character would. Pattinson, in character as well, tried not so gently to subdue him. "When I find someone who I have an instinct about," Pattinson says, "who's going to just push forward, I find it quite easy to completely give myself to that person. And I can commit so wholeheartedly because I think it's so stressful being in a thing where you're just constantly second-guessing everything all the time."

On the other hand, now that he's the star, now that the movies are so much smaller than the franchise machines that run on their own power, like Twilight, he has a new set of responsibilities. He knows a movie like Good Time would not be the subject of much mainstream attention-remember, it probably wouldn't even exist-without his name on it. He knows that he has reached the stage of his career where he can use his immense fame to bring attention to a very worthy, very difficult movie like this one. But now, sitting here, he realizes he doesn't really know what to say to me about it. He doesn't love this part, the selling part, and he's struggling for the right words. "I'm not very good at sending a message," he tells me.

This is Rob Pattinson's conundrum in 2017. He can disappear into roles. He can become someone new. But when he shows up to talk about the career he has now, the career of his dreams, people still mistake him for the tabloid tween sensation he was a few years ago, whose personal life was everywhere, who knew he was going to get asked about it in every interview and hated every second of it. He still does, which is why every minute we're together I see him watching me warily, waiting for me to pounce.

Pattinson was cast in Twilight when he was 21, and throughout his four-year run, he and his co-stars would get dragged to shopping malls to do promotion. Those were the days when he spoke freely. Nervous girls would ask him everything from when Edward and Bella were finally going to bone to how he styled his hair. He told them, "I have 12-year-old virgins lick it." He was hooded and dragged off to media training by studio executives, and from then on, in any interview he did, he was surrounded by several anxious publicists ready to tase him if he got out of line again.

The paparazzi descended upon him in a way we hadn't seen since Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were a thing. (They were once a thing!) Tabloids camped outside his home. "People were like, 'It's fine, who cares?' " he says now. " 'They're just photos or whatever.' They'll say, 'Just live your life.' But that's not life for me, if someone's observing it."

During the height of the Twilight madness, he had each of his friends call Ubers while he traded outfits with them in the restaurant bathroom, so that photographers wouldn't know which car he got into, and then he sent all the Ubers in different directions, because drop dead. He rode around in the trunks of cars "constantly," he says, because fuck you. At one point he had five rental cars and kept them, along with a change of clothes, in parking lots around town. If he was being followed, he'd dip into one of the lots, switch his clothing and his car, and leave. One day, coming home from Venice, he realized he was being tailed. He drove around for hours because he didn't want anyone to know where his new house was. Finally, as the sun came up, he pulled over and got out of the car and approached one of the photographers. "You've gotten your pictures," he said. "Can I please just go home now?" "No," the guy told him. "My boss says I can't come back until I know where your new house is. Sorry, man." Pattinson never tried to negotiate or appeal to their humanity again.

"There are ways to disappear, like, fairly easily," he tells me. "It just involves effort, and most people can't be bothered to put the effort in."

Finally, he won. And he didn't win because tabloids changed or because Twilight ended or even because he and Kristen Stewart broke up, a breakup instigated, of course, by the very paparazzi they had worked so hard to dodge (look it up). No, he won because he had more money than they did: They simply couldn't afford the gas and unbillable hours that led to no billable shot. "As soon as I saw a tail, I would just disappear again. It worked after a while. They're just like, 'Oh, the guy is just a hassle.' " He had cracked the code; he was free. "There are ways to disappear, like, fairly easily," he tells me. "But you have to be living a quite strange life. It just involves effort, and most people can't really be bothered to put the effort in."

Things are easier now; not perfect, but easier. Just yesterday he was walking Solo-his girlfriend named the dog-and he saw a photographer, and he hid his face and then was angry at himself, because he knows that hiding your face is a story. As he tells me about it, he tightens that jaw that jaw that jaw, which you could luge down, but then he relaxes and remembers what it used to be like. Put it this way: He was walking his dog outside. He thinks Instagram has taken the heat off of him; it's taken some of the fire out of the tabloids' pursuit of movie stars. Now they chase the Insta-models and reality stars. Sometimes they chase one another. But he has no animosity for any of them, he says. "They're just losers trying to do their jobs."

What he is trying to say is-no offense to me personally, of course-he would rather not be here. "It's technically part of my job, but I've never been very good at it," he says. And anyway, "I've never been that concerned if someone sees the movie," which he knows you're not supposed to say aloud and maybe doesn't entirely mean, but there you go. His eyes briefly shift toward me with suspicion. He's sure this is what I'm after-something incendiary, maybe even something about his ex-girlfriend, or something about Twigs. (He only accidentally lets me know he calls her that-Twigs-twice: once in relation to who named the dog they both own and also in relation to the ugliness they both experienced when their relationship became public and people on Twitter spewed racist garbage about her.) In fact, Pattinson tells me, he went to therapy a few years ago during a low time, and the therapist often remarked how good he was at talking without saying anything. Now he applies this skill whenever he's forced to hang out with people like me. "If I could stay silent," he says, "I would."

He's convinced that I'll take whatever I learn and make his loved ones' lives a hellscape. Back in the Twilight days, someone Googled his sisters' names and started hounding them at work. He realized that he should never say anyone's name-not his ex's name, not Twigs's name. (Just watch this. Me: "Are you getting married?" Him: "Eh...," then laughs.) He tries to make a point in interviews of saying nothing that isn't already known: "I always think the risk reward is very much weighted in the wrong direction."

But it's not just his personal life that he refuses to dive into. He's also alarmed by the prospect that if he says the wrong thing about a film he's trying to promote, it could be a disaster. "We live in very sensitive times," he says. One false move, he says, and it becomes the story of the movie, undoing a lot of good people's hard work. I surmise, but he will not confirm, that he is referring to several bits in the movie that might go over some p.c. line that the Internet has drawn.

I ask him to give me an example-one example-of a movie where this happened, where a single remark or bit of gossip derailed the whole thing. He looks at me searchingly, shaking his head. He doesn't want to name anything because he assumes that will get him into trouble, too, shitting on someone else's movie. But I sit quietly and wait. I can wait all day. Finally, he's got one.

"Like Waterworld, for instance."

I look up from my notebook and squint. The Kevin Costner movie?

"It's one of the greatest movies ever made," he continues, "and everyone said it was bad. And for years everyone was like, 'This is a terrible movie.' And now people are watching it and the veil is being taken away."

I am momentarily speechless. Then I confirm whether he's actually seen Waterworld. He has. Later, I will check to make sure there isn't a Sidney Lumet movie that's also called Waterworld. There isn't.

Already he regrets saying this, invoking his beloved Waterworld. He looks down at the coffee. He gets a far-off look in his eyes, staring straight ahead, over my shoulder, at the restaurant wall. He looks at me again and pushes out a micro-sigh.

He tells me a story about filming The Rover in 2014, in a town in Australia with a population of 90, several hours north of Adelaide. He could stand out in the open desert, taking a piss. "I know no one can see this," he thought then. He could barely get his head around it. Just four years earlier, he was filming a movie in Central Park, and 3,000 people came out to watch. For anyone else it would be just a regular piss. For Pattinson, it was the urination of liberation.

So after all that, we end up playing golf, something he's never done before and I've only done for other articles. It was his suggestion, as out of nowhere as the others. It stuck simply because it was the last thing he thought of before there was no time to think of anything else, so we got ourselves a last-minute tee time.

He shows up this time in a gingham shirt, unbuttoned to just below the thorax, a baseball cap, and sneakers. He is less anxious than yesterday; he is happier when he is moving. Calmer, too. We rent a golf cart and make it through exactly one hole before it becomes clear that the combination of our ineptitude at golf and cackle-moon-howl laughter does not jibe well with the foul humor of the Angelenos who are available to play golf on a Friday afternoon at 3:12-a time that is called the Twilight slot, if you can believe it. We do not know quite where to put our tees. We do not know where we should be aiming our balls. There are people behind us and people in front of us, and perhaps we hadn't considered how very, very seriously other people take golf.

We decide to bail. I get into the golf cart with him, and he has to drive backward in order for us to make our escape. He does it at full speed, swerving in reverse with the confidence of a man who has been chased down by innocent-looking Priuses with devious-looking photographers hanging out the driver's-side window.

"We are going really fast," I say.

He turns briefly toward me and gives me a funny look. "No, we're not."

I was right all along, you know. Sure, yes, all the activities he suggested were about doing something cool he'd never done before, but mostly they were about not talking. Maybe I was being naive, but you have to know I go into each one of these with a heart clouded by optimism and a willingness to believe the best in everyone. He is searching for something new in his work and in his life-that's all real. But his ulterior motive became unavoidable after we played one hole of golf. You try asking a question with a tape recorder jammed under your bra strap and your notepad under your armpit so that you can hit a ball nowhere near the hole.

"I want to be misunderstood. People are always changing, and the more you put something down in print, people form opinions and they're constantly creating who they think you are."

After we return the cart, Pattinson and I hit the restaurant in the clubhouse. We sit with beers served in glasses the size of fishbowls and eat hot dogs (ketchup and mustard). I try again for even one iota of intimate conversation. But he just asks me why he would ever answer. So I think back on all the interviews I've done, and I tell him very honestly that I think it's because people want to be heard. Most of us, even the most famous of us-sometimes especially the most famous of us-want to be understood.

"I don't," he says. "I want to be misunderstood. People are always changing, and the more you put something down in print, people form opinions and they're constantly creating who they think you are. If you do something that contradicts that, or if you do something which goes out of that box, then you can look like a liar or something like that."

He prefers to stay nimble, you see. There will be less to combat later if someone like me can't throw his words in his face. It's just not worth it, he says. Especially now. Especially now that he's finally back among the living. Living is picking the movies you want, reacting to the world as it comes. Living is walking your dog. That's why he isn't giving me shit, he tells me. He hopes I understand. It's for the best, he says. He's alive again. Finally he's alive again.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a GQ correspondent.
This story originally appeared in the September 2017 issue with the title "The Second Coming of Robert Pattinson."

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So it's settled, says Rob Pattinson, we're going to do ayahuasca together! Ayahuasca is an Amazonian hallucinogen that people take to journey to the center of themselves, usually with a shaman, usually on a retreat, and it is a totally normal and valid way for us to spend one of our two days together, I completely agree.

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The words and image used in this Tweet create a sense of freedom. Pattinson's relaxed and cool image is used to symbolise this idea of a lifestyle with no limits. By having Pattinson sitting on the roof of a building, this suggests that his serene nature has been so incorporated into his image that it even affects his portrayal in advertisements.

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The brand also used Pattison's reputation as an esteemed actor to promote teasers of their new release on their social media accounts. Using Twitter, they released images of Pattinson that make reference to his relaxed and carefree image.

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This video also shows the masculine and alpha side of Pattinson's star image. The use of sex and nudity not only makes reference to his masculinity but also sheds his teenage image. He is being represented as strong and desirable as the woman, who is wearing his jacket, wraps herself around him.

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This video features elements of Pattinson's masculine and mature image. He appears dominant and virile, wearing a sharp suit and passionately kissing a woman. This creates a mature and sexy image of Pattinson, which has been incorporated into his image as he has evolved.

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1000 Lives - Dior Homme Advertisement (2013)

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The final advertisement, named 1000 Lives, uses black and white imagery throughout to promote the sophisticated image of both the brand and Pattinson. Pattinson is dressed in a way that contrasts to his usual casual and relaxed style, wearing a slick black suit, shirt and silk tie, showing that his image has matured. It suggests a modern Pattinson, whilst promoting prestige. The advert portrays a romantic love story between the couple, an image that was first created of Pattinson in the Twilight franchise. It makes Pattinson appear desirable and lusted by women. The song used, 'Whole Lotta Love,' connotes ideas of rebellion and an 'us against the world' type of romance. Gate-crashing parties, escaping to the beach and playing by his own rules give Pattinson an almost 'bad boy' image.

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It was revealed in July 2013 that Robert Pattinson would be the new face of the Dior Homme brand. Working with such a  prestigious and reputable brand highlights how professionalism has become part of Pattinson's image and how far he has come in the media since his Twilight days.

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After months of speculation, the House of Dior has officially announced its partnership with Robert Pattinson today
Robert Pattinson has officially been announced as the face of Dior Homme.
After months of speculation about the star's rumoured partnership with the brand, the House of Dior has released an official statement today confirming the campaign.

They said: 'The House of Dior is delighted to announce that actor Robert Pattinson is to be the new face of Dior Homme fragrance.'

Cue screams of delight from the entire Marie Claire office...

The statement then goes on to praise Robert's successful career in a number of high-profile movies, saying: 'Since his first notable role in 2005 in the fourth Harry Potter sequel, film star Robert Pattinson has more recently come to be known through his role in the runaway box office success, the Twilight saga.

'He has since proven the scope of his acting talents by choosing films as varied as Remember Me by Allen Coulter, Water for Elephants by Francis Lawrence, in which he starred alongside Reese Witherspoon, or with his role as Bel-Ami, the famous Maupassant character.

'In the ultimate tribute to his talent, David Cronenberg chose him to star in his latest picture, Cosmopolis, adapted from the novel by Don de Lillo. A striking role as a golden boy which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

'He has recently completed filming David Michod¹s The Rover in Australia with Guy Pearce and will soon be on set for David Cronenberg¹s next picture, Maps to the Stars. Following on he will star in Hold on to Me, directed by James Marsh and co-starring Carey Mulligan.'

The first shot released by the fashion house shows Robert looking utterly gorgeous in a stubbly, blue-eyed close-up. Hewears a red checked shirt and looks perfectly groomed.

Rumours in Hollywood have claimed that the campaign for Rob's ad was 'steamy' and featured the actor surrounded by barely-clothed women in a bed. Here's hoping that's to come...

Dior Homme adds: 'Today we are excited to announce that he will join the privileged circle of Dior faces. Photographed by American artist Nan Goldin and filmed by French director Romain Gavras, this new Dior Homme communication campaign is currently broadcast exclusively in Europe (except UK) and Asia (except China and Japan).'
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This article demonstrates how Pattinson's physical good looks and heartthrob status still make up a big part of his star image. It suggests that Pattinson is the physically perfect, ideal man, suggesting that he is a goal and achievement that others should aspire to and giving him a heroic image.

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Robert Pattinson is the most handsome man in the world according to the 'Golden Ratio' equation devised in Ancient Greece (and Henry Cavill is a close second)

Actor Robert Pattinson, 33, has been named most beautiful man in the world

This is according to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi devised in Ancient Greece

His facial features came closest to the ancient Greeks' idea of perfection

Meanwhile Henry Cavill, 36, and Bradley Cooper, 45, also ranked well for beauty

Robert Pattinson has been declared the most handsome man in the world following science research into what constitutes the 'perfect face'.

The British Batman actor, 33, was found to be 92.15 per cent 'accurate' to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, which is said to measure physical perfection.

His eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, chin, jaw and facial shape were measured against other celebrities and came closest to the ancient Greeks' idea of perfection.

The list was compiled using the latest computerised mapping techniques by Harley Street facial cosmetic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva, who utilises the technology in his work.

Dr De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery, in London, said: 'Robert Pattinson was the clear winner when all elements of the face were measured for physical perfection.

'These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients' surgery.'

1. Robert Pattinson - 92.15 per cent

What is the Golden Ratio of Phi and how is it calculated?

Dr Julian De Silva explained that Robert Pattinson was the clear winner when all elements of his face were measured for physical perfection.

He said: 'He was in the top five for nearly all the categories because he has such classically shaped features and a wonderful chiselled jaw.'

'His only score below average was for his lips which are a little thin and flat.'

2. Henry Cavill - 91.64 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Henry Cavill was a close second.

'He had the highest overall score for his lips and forehead and also scored very highly for the matching ratio of nose and lips and his eye position.'

However it appeared the Witcher star was let down by the position of his eyes, with Dr Julian explaining: 'He scored poorly for his eye spacing.'

3. Bradley Cooper - 91.08 per cent

A Star Is Born actor Bradley Cooper scored highly for his eye position, as well as his lips and chin.

However Dr Julian explained the celebrity was also marked down 'for the shapes of both his nose and face.'

4. Brad Pitt - 90.51 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Brad is ageing incredibly well just as his career is peaking again with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

'To come third on the list at the age of 56 is incredible and reflects his almost ageless beauty.

'He had the top marks for eye spacing but was marked down for the shape of his nose.'

5. George Clooney - 89.91 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'George Clooney was toppled from the top spot, largely because of the toll nature has taken in the last three years.

'He is still an intensely beautiful man but there has been a loss of volume in his face and, inevitably, some sagging around the eyes.'

He added: 'To still make the top five when you are nearly in your 60s is remarkable and is testament to his incredible natural good looks.'

6. Hugh Jackman - 89.64 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said 'Hugh is another actor who seems to get better with age and whose career is at its absolute zenith.

'To make the top five at 51 shows the strength of his overall features.

'He scored highest for nose shape but was marked down for his lips and eye spacing.'

7. David Beckham - 88.96 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Becks has the most chiselled chin of all the men in the top ten.

'He also has a near-perfect ratio between the size of his nose and his lips. But he was marked down for the shape of his nose and his eye position.'

8. Idris Elba - 88.01 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Idris has a near-perfect chin and was just beaten by Becks in second place in that category, and he also scored highly for his eye spacing which was also second overall.

'He was marked down for nose and lip size ratio.'

9. Kanye West - 87.94 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Kanye scored highly for his eye spacing and his chin. He was marked down for his face shape.'

10. Ryan Gosling 87.48 per cent

Dr Julian De Silva said: 'Ryan had the most perfectly shaped nose of all the men but scored lowly for his lips.'

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Actor Robert Pattinson, 33, has been named most beautiful man in the world This is according to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi devised in Ancient Greece His facial features came closest to the ancient Greeks' idea of perfection Meanwhile Henry Cavill, 36, and Bradley Cooper, 45, also ranked well for beauty Robert Pattinson has been declared the most handsome man in the world following science research into what constitutes the 'perfect face'.

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As the years distanced Pattinson from the Twilight franchise, it also distanced him from his teenage image that had been created. Taken more seriously as a professional and successful actor, Pattinson's image now features more dominant features such as heroism, self-reliance and virility.

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Since becoming more experimental with the films and roles that he takes on, Pattinson's more creative image has been incorporated even within press and editorial photoshoots.

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Robert Pattinson's Viral Moments, Ranked - GQ (2019)

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Robert Pattinson's Viral Moments, Ranked - GQ (2019)

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Since Pattinson has some very awkward public experiences, he often goes viral on the internet. Many people find amusement from things that Pattinson says and does, showing how his humour has become incorporated into his star image. There is also a sense of irony in that Pattinson doesn't actually have any of his own public social media accounts even being a huge film star. This creates a fascinating part of his ordinary image.

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Robert Pattinson is a man of many talents. He's arguably the best actor working today, moving away from the world of blockbusters in favor of working with some of the world's greatest directors including Claire Denis, Werner Herzog and David Cronenberg-before surprising everyone by taking on the Dark Knight himself. While Pattinson has reinvented himself as an arthouse thespian, his fans have designated him as their go-to meme. Taking advantage of his lack of a filter and idiosyncrasies, his past public experiences are being dug up for the Internet's amusement, giving the actor an unintentional second life as a viral sensation-which he probably isn't even aware of.

Compiling all of Pattinson's best moments is close to impossible (he says a lot of weird things!), plus not all of them went viral, which meant omitting some of my favorite Rob moments. I apologize now to the Variety interview where he talks about mermaids' "shockingly large" vaginas, and Josh Safdie's story about Pattinson buying him a Japanese toilet. Robert Pattinson, please never change, and reader, please do not @ me.

13. Robert Pattinson Desperately Needs a New York City Hot Dog

A.K.A. Fear & Shame. Yes, this is our own video, but this story of one anxious man's quest to curb his hunger was written by Pattinson himself. According to a Reddit AMA (more on that later), he developed this short film "about being crazy" in 15 minutes and shot it in an hour. It's indicative of his filmmaking prowess and what a weirdo he is.
12. Robert Pattinson Does a Reddit AMA
Reddit is a terrifying place I know nothing about, so I can only imagine what it was like for Pattinson when he hosted an AMA to promote Good Time. Pattinson famously doesn't use social media, but at least he knows that self-deprecation is the key to going viral. It's worth reading the whole AMA, especially because I find it really validating as a no-caps tweeter that he types in all lowercase.

11. Robert Pattinson Forgets Who Emma Watson Is
Like his character Cedric Diggory, Robert Pattinson is handsome, inherently likable, and stayed on my bedroom wall for four years. In a behind-the-scenes video from the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pattinson appears as annoyingly aloof as everyone's most beloved Hufflepuff by pretending to not know who Emma Watson is. An incontrovertible classic in R-Pattz lore.
10. Robert Pattinson Bites Tyra Banks's Neck
A surreal piece of modern performance art: in an inexplicable British accent, Tyra Banks asks Pattinson to bite her on the neck. He complies, leaving a hickey as Banks lets out an ecstatic shriek. Taylor Lautner, momentarily forgotten, watches it all unfold flabbergasted. This is somehow real.
9. Robert Pattinson Hates Healthy Shakes
Paparazzi are bad, but sometimes they are good for catching an actor in the midst of tasting a nutritious, but disgusting, shake. A relatable king!

8. Robert Pattinson Sleeps
Having the freedom to do whatever he wants has given Pattinson the chance to build quite the resume post- Twilight. His talent and versatility hasn't gone unrecognized, as he was honored by the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year. Unfortunately, Pattinson would not witness this monumental celebration of his career because he fell asleep at his own tribute. I feel you, Rob, film festivals are tiring.
7. Robert Pattinson Likes Chick(en) Flicks
An unabashed cinephile, Pattinson's favorite films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist and French New Wave classic Pierrot le Fou. When asked what his favorite chick flick was, he replied, " Chicken Run is the only thing coming into my head." The only correct answer.
6. Robert Pattinson Has a Lot of Headlines Written About Him
If you watch Robert Pattinson's talk show interviews as much as I do, you'll notice that he frequently punctuates his sentences with, "Why did I just say that?" You see, Pattinson clearly has a two-fold problem: 1) He doesn't know when to stop talking, and 2) Everything he says becomes a story. Such a conundrum has produced an eclectic bunch of articles over the years-to include them all would make this list egregiously long, but the following headlines are just a taste of Pattinson's gift of the gab:

5. Robert Pattinson Bores His Own Stalker
I don't know how anyone could find Robert Pattinson boring, but apparently his stalker did. "I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain," he said. "She stood outside of my apartment every day for weeks - all day every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
4. Robert Pattinson Thinks Being Spit on Is Pretty Great
Striking up some friendly conversation, Pattinson asks Jimmy Kimmel: "Have you ever had someone spit on you, like, in a kind of erotic way?" Appalled, Kimmel ponders the question for a second before answering with a resounding no. "It's pretty great," Pattinson adds. I don't need to explain why this went viral.

3. Robert Pattinson Hates Twilight (But Not Anymore)

In what might've been his first viral video, Pattinson expresses his apparent disdain for the five-film franchise he's supposed to be promoting. "When I read [ Twilight], it was like a book that wasn't supposed to be published," he says in one clip. "[Edward] is one of those guys who would be an axe-murderer," he says in another. But in a true redemption arc, Pattinson has changed his ways, calling the soundtracks "ahead of their time." He's right and he should say it! The baseball scene set to Muse's Supermassive Black Hole did, in fact, invent cinema.
2. Robert Pattinson Preeminently Takes Down Matt Lauer
We probably should stop writing articles on everything Robert Pattinson says, because he notoriously invents stories for talk shows, and admitted as such to Jimmy Kimmel, who still asks him for fun stories anyway. The most baffling of them all happened while he was promoting Water for Elephants on the Today show: Matt Lauer asks if he ever dreamed of running away to join the circus. "The first time I went to see the circus, somebody died," Pattinson replies. "One of the clowns died." Compulsive liar Robert Pattinson doubles down on his imaginary morbid tale of clown death, adding that the clown died when his clown car exploded. A week later, he admitted that he made the story up, consequently exposing the futility of the anecdotal talk show format and owning Matt Lauer before the rest of the world would catch up.
1. Robert Pattinson Has Been Memed
Taking the top spot is a video that is not funny at all, but has sent the Internet into a whirlwind. In a 2014 commercial for Dior (which currently has 9.5 million views on Twitter), Pattinson and Camille Rowe stare at each other and imagine making out in an elevator. The connection to Dior fragrances is, let's say, tenuous, but in 2019, it's great advertising. I will admit, I've watched it a dozen times, and I would buy Dior perfume if I could afford it. The commercial has since become Twitter's hottest new meme, which is both an honor and a curse-arguably a greater honor than the film festival tribute he slept at. Thank you Robert Pattinson for making everyone horny on main.

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Robert Pattinson is a man of many talents. He's arguably the best actor working today, moving away from the world of blockbusters in favor of working with some of the world's greatest directors including Claire Denis, Werner Herzog and David Cronenberg-before surprising everyone by taking on the Dark Knight himself.

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Pattinson discusses the struggles with fame as he has lost all privacy. He explains the difficult feelings of gratitude towards his success, but also the  despair of his high status. Pattinson also discusses how he feels stuck in playing one particular role, stating: '"it’s also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn’t want. ’Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.”' This suggests that Pattinson feels trapped within his teen heartthrob image and knows he may not be taken seriously for other roles in different genres due to his romanticised image.

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Robert Pattinson doesn't like to fly anymore, because flying means airports, and airports mean encountering people who might go bananas when they see him, screaming and crying and trying to touch him and asking him to bite their necks. Shy, for an actor, Pattinson, who turns 25 next month, says he finds the hysteria that has surrounded him ever since he first appeared as the gallant teenage vampire Edward Cullen in the first Twilight movie, in 2008, "quite strange."

"This thing with everyone knowing you," he says one day in Baton Rouge, where he's filming the fourth and fifth installments in the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn: Part I and Part II, "it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know." And, Pattinson adds, "I don't really know myself that well."

Robert Pattinson sparks overnight adulation (Evgenia Peretz, December 2009)

Twilight 's popularity (James Wolcott, December 2008)

And so-given his aversion to air travel, and his feeling that he could use some time to get to know himself-Pattinson decided that, when he had to get from Los Angeles to New Orleans to join the Twilight cast in November, he would drive. "It was awesome," he says of the trip, which he made with two friends from London. "I went on service roads the whole time. I navigated it on an iPhone." This updated Kerouacian adventure took them through Arizona and New Mexico, where they came upon the tiny Native American town of Zuni. "It didn't seem like America at all," Pattinson says nostalgically. "Me and my friends were the only white people."

Robert Pattinson sparks overnight adulation (Evgenia Peretz, December 2009) Twilight's popularity (James Wolcott, December 2008)
They stopped in a bar in Lubbock, Texas, where, for the first time in as long as Pattinson can remember, he sat and had a beer, undisturbed by paparazzi or fans. "No one recognized me or anything," he says. "And I was like, Ah, this is really cool, sitting there eating chicken wings and stuff." He'd been searching for a place where he could feel what it's like to just be himself, and thought he had finally found it.

But then something happened. Word got out. "They always find out somehow," he says resignedly. Suddenly there were a thousand people in the street, and the police had to come and control the crowd. A bouncer asked him, "You want us to go and knock someone out?," and Pattinson says, "I was like, 'What are you talking about? You don't need to hit anybody.' " Now he and his friends were trapped in the same bar that had been an oasis of anonymity. A police escort had to take them back to their hotel.

A few months later in Baton Rouge, Pattinson says he doesn't feel like going out, as there's no telling when a simple trip to a restaurant might ignite another riot. "And I'll just be like this," he says, putting his head down on the table, hiding in the crook of his arm. He picks his head up again and-oh, wow. He can't escape his looks any more than he can escape the attention of his fans. His face has a kind of gorgeousness one sees in the faces of children, with its perfect pale skin, red lips, large eyes. It's hard to say it any other way: he's beautiful.

But such superlatives are probably just the kind of thing that would make him cringe and sweat even more profusely than he's doing now, through his light-blue cotton button-down. He seems nervous; he says he's nervous. This interview thing isn't his thing. "I'm just so boring," he says, running his hands repeatedly through his thick brown hair until it stands on end. "I'm just so dried up." He's chain-smoking American Spirits, drinking coffee and water and Snapple iced tea, nibbling at chocolate-covered pretzels left in a bowl for him by his assistant.

Outside, we can hear the growling of dogs. "I hope they're not killing poor Martin," says Pattinson, getting up from the kitchen table and peering out the window. Martin is a stray, the underdog of a pack of dogs belonging to the assistants for Pattinson and his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart. The assistants are sharing this cozy rental house in a quiet residential section of Baton Rouge. They've lit a crackling fire and scented candles to keep Pattinson comfortable while he does his interview.

"I don't know what's wrong with me," Pattinson says, returning to the table. Ever since he came back to the Twilight set, he says, he doesn't feel-well, quite himself. "My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign my name. I tried to write the other day-it looked like I was writing in Braille." I ask him to write something on my notepad; he does, and it's illegible. "See?" he says. "It looks like spiders have written it."

There's a joking element to his bleak description of his state of mind, but he's being serious as well. It seems the restrictions of living in the bubble of his immense fame are starting to get to him. "I've just kind of stopped doing everything," he says. "I never change the channel in my trailer. I just watch reruns of House of Payne and Two and a Half Men. I love *Cops-*I think it's my favorite TV show.

"God," he says, laughing, "I sound like such a loser."

Wake Me When It's Over

'Kristen is very focused on being an actress," Pattinson says, later, of Stewart. "I mean, that's what she is-she's an actress. Whereas I-I just don't really know."

Among the many things that now dog Pattinson wherever he goes are questions about the nature of his relationship with Stewart, 21. They are widely rumored to be having a torrid romance, something they refuse to confirm (even Oprah couldn't get it out of them). Other rumors maintain that talk of a romance is just publicity for the Twilight movies.

"Are you asking me if I'm really a vampire?," Pattinson says, laughing, when I join the nosy chorus, asking if his on-screen love mirrors his relationship in real life. As I wait for an answer, Pattinson literally starts squirming. "Yes. Um. No, not really," he says. "It's pretty hard to ... It's just very traumatic," he says cryptically.

"I mean, are you very intense about each other?," I ask.

"Oh, I don't know," he says finally. "She's cool. Even before I knew her I thought she was a really good actress. Like, I saw Into the Wild, and I thought she was really good in that. I still think there are very few girls in her class that are as good as she is. It's funny that she's the one doing this huge-thing." That is, Twilight.

"When this is over," says Pattinson, meaning the seemingly unstoppable Twilight entertainment machine, "the media will lose interest" in their alleged affair. He hopes. "There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It won't fit into a template."

But the big question for Pattinson-and one he seems painfully aware of-is whether the Twilight craze will ever really be over, if he can ever go back to just being Rob, whoever that might be. The fourth and fifth movies in the saga don't come out until November of 2011 and 2012, and with fans as obsessive as the so-called Twihards (not to mention a marketing machine as effective as Summit Entertainment's), the phenomenon could go on for as long as there are teenage girls with a taste for the macabre and nothing better to do.

A role as iconic as Edward Cullen could prove as lethal as a vampire's bite to a young actor's career, despite the movie immortality and fame and fortune it brings. (This year, Pattinson was No. 15 on *Vanity Fair'*s "Hollywood Top 40," which cited earnings of $27.5 million in 2010 alone.)

"There's a massive reward," Pattinson concedes, but "being in such a specific pigeonhole right now, it's very strange. Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most-but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want.'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something."

I ask him whether he could break out and do something completely different-like Shakespeare. "If I did that now I'd get assassinated," he says with a rueful laugh. "Everyone would just be like, What the fuck?"

He finds himself in an awkward position, not knowing if he even wants to be an actor forever, but also facing the possibility that he won't ever be allowed to move beyond one particular role. He sounds wistful when talking about the careers of contemporaries he admires, like Jesse Eisenberg ("He's just really cool") and James Franco ("He's done something really interesting with his career").

"I've always said to my agents and stuff, like, it's going to be 10 years" before people forget about Twilight, he says. "And that's totally understandable. Normally people keep working and working until their big break. You just keep trying to make the best of your decisions. Like I try to think how I used to think before all the Twilight movies."

And that's how he decided to make a movie about an elephant.

Trunk Show

W ater for Elephants, in theaters this month, is based on Sara Gruen's best-selling 2006 novel about a traveling circus during the Depression. Pattinson plays Jacob Jankowski, a veterinary-medicine student who loses his parents in a car accident and hops a circus train, becoming the keeper of its exotic animals, including a very problematic elephant.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Rob says the reason he took the movie was because of the elephant," says director Francis Lawrence ( Constantine, I Am Legend). "He really fell in love with the elephant."

"She was the best actor I ever worked with in my life," Pattinson says of Tai, his Indian-elephant co-star, who lives in Southern California, where the movie was mostly shot. (Tai appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1992, posing with Goldie Hawn.) "I cried when the elephant was wrapped," or filmed her last scene, says Pattinson. "I never cried when anyone else was wrapped."

But one of the main reasons he chose to do the film was that Jack Fisk, the Oscar-nominated production designer ( There Will Be Blood), told him it was going to look like Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, for which Fisk did the art direction in 1978. "I had an image of what it would look like," Pattinson says. "I kind of pick things in a weird way."

"He's a cinephile," says Reese Witherspoon, who plays Marlena, a circus performer and Pattinson's love interest in the film. (In 2004, when Witherspoon was 28, Pattinson, then 18, played her son in Vanity Fair, but the footage wound up on the cutting-room floor, so, he says, "it doesn't count.")

"For a young guy to have seen so many movies is really amazing," Witherspoon says. "I mentioned Design for Living "-the Ernst Lubitsch-Gary Cooper comedy from 1933-"and I was so surprised he had seen it."

"He's a bit like a film student," says Lawrence. "He watches a lot of stuff and can talk about movies very intelligently."

Still, Lawrence admits having been "worried," before meeting Pattinson, about casting him in Water for Elephants. Pattinson's movies, apart from the billion-dollar Twilight series, have so far not been tearing up the box office. He did several roles in smallish films before getting the part of Edward Cullen, and then 2010's Remember Me, which didn't benefit from a Twilight bounce.

"The Twilight films are so stylized," Lawrence says, "you wonder what the actor can do. But then after meeting Rob I really calmed down. He has that thing; he's magnetic. He's a real movie star. He reminds me of James Dean. And he seemed a lot like [his Water for Elephants character] Jacob, someone who was just becoming a man, strong but uncomfortable in his own skin. People are going to be surprised. His performance was very nuanced and naturalistic."

'He's exploring who he is as an artist," says Witherspoon. "He was always asking me and Christoph"-Waltz, the Austrian actor from Inglourious Basterds who plays Water for Elephants' brutal animal trainer, August-"to work on dialogue and character with him. He's very committed to the work. I hear so many horror stories about young actors with attitude showing up late or hung over, and there wasn't any of that. He worked so hard."

Somehow Pattinson maintained his concentration in the face of the hordes of Twihards who plagued the Water for Elephants set on a daily basis. "I'd never seen anything like that, ever," Witherspoon says. "They were waiting at five o'clock in the morning to see him. Young girls. Where are their mothers?" she asks.

"I think it's really annoying for him," says Lawrence. "We shot for a week in Tennessee, and news got out, and riding down the road to the set it was like Woodstock. Cars for two miles. People camped in the grass. We were having dinner at the hotel in a private room, and they were clamoring up to the windows, so the waiters shut the blinds. So they just start screaming and banging on the windows, clawing at the windows. And then you hear this desperate voice: 'Rob! I just want to touch your hair!'

"I've worked with Will Smith," Lawrence continues, "and he'll sign autographs, and everybody's happy. But this is a whole different thing. Rob could get ripped to shreds. They will rip the clothes off his body and pull his hair out."

Entourage of None

You have to wonder how Pattinson deals with it all. He's not Leo of the Titanic years, running around to nightclubs with an entourage, blowing off steam. He's not Keith Richards (whose autobiography he says he just finished reading), numbing himself with substances. Pattinson says he is "allergic to pot," and, now that he has to be in shape for the Breaking Dawn films, he doesn't even drink. (He'll appear with his shirt off in Breaking Dawn: Part I, which he says he dreaded: "I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked.")

"I'm, like, a compulsive eater," he says, by way of a revelation. "I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous." But this is hard to believe, judging by his narrow frame. He tells a story about wolfing down most of a 40-ounce bag of Pretzel M&M's while reading a book of essays by David Foster Wallace. "I had a complete breakdown and literally threw them down the toilet," he says. Keith Richards he isn't.

What he seems to be is a reluctant star, craving normalcy, and committed to educating himself. "He probably read 20 books while we were shooting," Lawrence says. "He was always there with his Kindle in between takes."

Pattinson counts among his favorite books some comically scathing takes on human folly: Eat the Rich, by P. J. O'Rourke, and Money, by Martin Amis. He declares that he is "just like" *Money'*s narrator, John Self-an advertising executive and addict working in the 80s-and would like one day to play him in a film version. "It's made for me, this part," he insists.

But just how he is like this character remains a mystery. He admits he doesn't "do anything, ever"-meaning anything scandalous-although he confesses a certain admiration for Charlie Sheen and his "little escapades." "I like crazy people who don't give a fuck," he says.

But Pattinson is engaged in somewhat loftier pursuits. He says he's writing a script based on a Lillian Hellman novel. Before his workload became prohibitive, he "used to go to the cinema every single day." He says he "learned so much from [French New Wave director Jean-Luc] Godard," and reels off a list of obscure Japanese movies he reveres.

"Fuck," he says at one point. "I sound like such a snobby little shit."

He never went to college. He grew up in Barnes, a suburb of London, where his mother, Clare, worked at a modeling agency and his father, Richard, sold vintage cars. (He has two older sisters, Lizzy, a musician, and Victoria, an advertising executive.) "He has a really nice family," says Witherspoon, "people who love him and support him, and he is equally loving and supportive of them. It all bodes very well for his future."

Pattinson attended a boys' school, Harrodian (coincidentally at the same time as Mick Jagger's son James), which he calls "artsy." He says he wanted to be a political speechwriter and was applying to go to college for a degree in international relations when he landed the role of Cedric Diggory, a doomed wizardry student at Hogwarts, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He'd been dabbling in acting and modeling and, with this modest success, decided he would move to L.A. and try his luck there. He says he spent most of his time going to movies and playing music in bars (he's also a musician and songwriter). He didn't have a girlfriend: "I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all," he says. He was thinking of quitting acting and going home when he was cast in Twilight.

Go Team

Knowing he's a thinking sort of young man, it's all the more interesting to consider what's going on in Pattinson's mind in the middle of this circus of fame. "It is weird," he says, trying to make sense of it all. "You have to wonder, What do they want?," meaning the Twilight fans.

They follow him to movie sets around the world like Deadheads, sometimes leaving jobs and families to hike the Twilight trail. When he dyed his hair a shade of red in January of this year, they dyed theirs in solidarity. "A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it," says Pattinson. "Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing." He told his lawyers to sue.

"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything," he says, " 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave." He mostly stays in hotels, he says, because "the best way to deal with it is to move around all the time."

"I can't really understand it even now," Pattinson says of *Twilight'*s intense appeal. "It does have an angle which is attached to something quite primal in girls. I guess people want it to define them, like 'I'm a Twilight fan.' That's crazy to me. I think people really just like being part of a crowd. There's something just tremendously exciting about hyping yourself up to that level."

He also gives credit for the success of the films to Summit Entertainment's award-winning marketing team. Last year their "Team Edward/Team Jacob" campaign presented a Sophie's choice to Twilight fans, asking them to support one of the two lovers rivaling for the hand of Bella, Kristen Stewart's character-Pattinson or Taylor Lautner, who plays the werewolf Jacob.

"I didn't realize how much people responded to the Team Edward/Team Jacob thing," says Pattinson. "Everyone was like"-advertising-executive voice-" 'So, are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?' And they were like, 'Represent your team!' And I was like, 'I don't have a team.'"

He says the experience of becoming a product-with his face on wallets, tote bags, board games, and of course multiple action figures-can get "weird." "With Twilight," he says, "you've got to please the franchise"-a word the people at Summit repeat with a kind of reverence. "Like, when we were doing the poster shoot for Water for Elephants," he says, "the shoot was like 10 minutes long, whereas the Twilight poster shoot was like two days, in every position. And we were like, 'Why are we doing this for so long?' And they were like"-corporate voice-" 'Oh, it's for the toys and the Burger King hats.' And not that I have a problem with it-it's difficult for movies to make money ...

"Whatever," Pattinson says, drawing on a cigarette. "There's nothing you can do about it. That's the way it is. But it is weird being part of that, kind of representing something you don't particularly like ...

"God," he says, "I just really headbutted it."

He's hoping that he can transition into a new persona-Rob Pattinson, serious actor-with increasingly sophisticated roles. He was recently cast in David Cronenberg's next film, Cosmopolis, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. "That's the thing I was worried about," he says, "that people wouldn't take me seriously enough to do movies like that, and I just got one."

Dog Tired

With mega-fame, it seems, a certain amount of alienation has set in. "It's funny now," Pattinson says, "like, trying to socialize with people. There's this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

"Or I'll be walking down the street," he says, "and people'll be like, 'Fuck you!' " He laughs. "And I get a lot of people wanting to beat me up. Men in bars and stuff. I just leave." He shrugs.

Robert Pattinson sparks overnight adulation (Evgenia Peretz, December 2009)

Twilight 's popularity (James Wolcott, December 2008)

"But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this," he says. "You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you should appreciate your luck. But, I mean, it just seems if you even hint that there's a bad side to any of this people will be like-Liar! I guess it's because people want to have it as a dream.

"God, I always talk about fame, and it's just so boring!," Pattinson exclaims, sounding disgusted with himself, bolting out of his chair. I tell him it's perfectly understandable, considering what he's been going through these last few years. "Yeah, but every time you read about someone famous talking about being famous, you're like, 'Shut the fuck up,'" he says with a laugh.

The growling outside has gotten louder. We can hear yelping too. Pattinson flings open the door, saying, "I can't take it anymore."

"Martin, get in here!" he shouts, whereupon a skinny, wet black dog instantly runs into the house, wagging its tail energetically and gratefully, dripping water everywhere.

Pattinson shuts the door before the other dogs can come in. "Just look at them waiting to get a piece of him," he says. A couple of boxers have gone to the window, where they're looking in, staring, glowering, if dogs can glower.

Martin jumps on the couch and shuts his eyes, exhausted.

Pattinson pets his head. "There, there, boy, you sleep," he tells him.

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Playing the world's sexiest vampire in the Twilight saga has made Robert Pattinson rich, famous-and a little overwhelmed. As he stars opposite Reese Witherspoon in Water for Elephants, he tries not to complain to Nancy Jo Sales. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

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Valentine's Day Shout-out - Seventeen video (2009)

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Admits that high levels of fame does not last forever. Pattinson reveals he is aware that this obsessive media coverage is futile and temporary. This level-headedness supports the unpretentious and grounded part of Pattinson's star image.

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Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse, 'Batman', Twilight, Kristen Stewart, bullied, & - hip replacement?

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Robert Pattinson & Jennifer Lopez - Variety's Actors on Actors interview (2019)

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Robert Pattinson & Jennifer Lopez - Variety's Actors on Actors interview (2019)

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Pattinson's easy-going and gentle nature comes across in this video. He is being humorous and self-mocking. For example, saying ‘If I was just going after parts which seemed somehow relatable to my real life self it would just be consistently playing chronically insecure losers.’ He is still representing himself as relatable with realistic issues and thoughts. The nature of the interview is also less formal, taking place on sofas with a fellow actor, Jennifer Lopez. This style of interview allows for Pattinson to appear calm and composed, adding to his relaxed star image.

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24 Hours with Robert Pattinson - Vogue video (2020)

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24 Hours with Robert Pattinson - Vogue video (2020)

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The beginning of the video includes uncut versions of Pattinson making his entrance, emphasising his genuinity. He comes across as a bit embarrassed in front of the camera, but soon relaxes with a coffee, highlighting his laid back star image. Being covered by Vogue - a high-fashion media and lifestyle magazine - creates a classy and sophisticated image of Pattinson, showing how his star image has matured.

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Robert Pattinson Desperately Needs a New York City Hot Dog - GQ video (2017)

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Robert Pattinson Desperately Needs a New York City Hot Dog - GQ video (2017)

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Comedy video about the daily struggles of being in the spotlight – he cannot leave house or go anywhere without being noticed. Highlights his sense of humour, again not taking himself too seriously, and his social anxiety and awkwardness.

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Robert Pattinson Desperately Needs a New York City Hot Dog | GQ

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Robert Pattinson & Mia Wasikowska WIRED interview (2018)

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Robert Pattinson & Mia Wasikowska WIRED interview (2018)

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In this interview, it is clear Pattinson doesn't take himself too seriously. His use of self-deprecating humour highlights his modest nature, and creates an aspect of his image that is quite awkward and introverted.

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Robert Pattinson & Mia Wasikowska Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

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Due to his sometimes eccentric personality and grounded mentality, Pattinson's image appears genuine and ordinary. His relaxed and humorous nature, even when in the press or being interviewed, is something that has been incorporated into his star image in the media.

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This article suggests that Pattinson has reinvented himself with every project since the Twilight franchise. By pushing boundaries and expectations within his roles, Pattinson has destroyed his teen idol status and proved himself as an all-rounder. It shows how his diversity as an actor has been incorporated into his star image.

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Pattinson plays a lighthouse keeper in this psychological horror film. His character changes from subdued, to manic, to crazy, showcasing Pattinson's abilities to transform himself for different roles. The character creates a more violent, scraggly and raw image of Pattinson, contradicting his polished pretty-boy image that was established in the Twilight franchise. This is reiterated in the image of Pattinson from the movie poster. It suggests that Pattinson is able to incorporate multiple layers into his star image.

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Pattison scored a role in the Safdie brothers' Good Time after emailing the directors, telling them he wanted to appear in their next piece of work. He plays Connie, a somewhat heroic criminal trying to exist in a world where he is overpowered by authority, whilst trying to swindle those around him. The role plays on Pattinson's renowned good looks, as the character uses his charm to manipulate. This suggests that charisma has been so incorporated into Pattinson's star image that it even affects the characteristics of his roles.

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Pattinson acknowledges his attempt to break from his teen idol image. He admits that he doesn't want to be recognised as 'just as the guy from Twilight,' but as a serious, professional actor.

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"I don't really know how accepted I am," says Robert Pattinson as he sips on an enormous paper cup of Coke. "Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out."

For someone with the world at his feet - he has the Twilight franchise behind him and David Cronenberg's icy drama Cosmopolis as his next release - Pattinson gives a good impression of a man plagued with self-doubt. "I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor," he says, fresh off a plane from Germany, where, he notes by the by, everybody seems to hate him.

"It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb," he says. "I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world."

Eric Packer, the character Pattison plays in Cosmopolis is not stupid. The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above. The film premiered at this year's Cannes film festival. The majority of reviews have been positive, particularly in Pattinson's favour, but frankly, it could have gone either way. It is not the most easily palatable of films.

'It's so different to other films, and that's one of the reasons I wanted to do it. You read the script and you're like, "Is this actually getting made? It's set in a car, there's so much talking about experimental economics"'

"It's funny. It got such divisive reactions in Cannes," Pattinson says, before confessing to having compulsively sought out those reactions himself. "I was sitting in the car on the way back from the press conference, refreshing, refreshing, refreshing on my phone. I've never really done anything where people have hated it, or really, really read into it. It's so different to other films, and that's one of the reasons I wanted to do it. You read the script and you're like, 'Is this actually getting made? It's set in a car, there's so much talking about experimental economics, and it's getting a wide release? But I think that's important, I would do a lot to get movies like that into the cinema again. There is some weird thing that's happened where the only thing that can be shown is a superhero movie that has cost $250m to make. It's the most ridiculous thing ever."

Of course, Pattinson has had his own part in that ridiculousness. By playing abstemious bloodsucker Edward Cullen in the five-part Twilight franchise (the final instalment of which comes out this winter) he has made studio Summit Entertainment two and a half billion dollars and himself into an international teen sex object. Moving on from that role will not be easy, and this is not Pattinson's first attempt at departure.

There was also, to name but two, this year's Bel Ami, the adaptation of the 1885 French novel, which, as Pattinson puts it, "kind of came and went", and Water For Elephants (2011), another relatively underwhelming book adaptation in which he co-starred with Reese Witherspoon as a circus vet. Neither particularly helped him to break into the acting mainstream. Now it's Cosmopolis, and a role Pattinson seems equally thrilled and baffled about.

"It's like nothing I'd really done before, and I didn't really understand it," says Pattinson, 26, now chewing on a toothpick, partly to rid himself of the remnants of a quarter pounder with cheese and partly because he is trying to give up smoking.

"I kept asking David, 'What have you seen?' I just thought, 'Please don't let this be a financing thing.'" He pauses. "But you need to piggy back on other people's credibility, because people are so judgmental. Once you've made one impression, that's it. I planned for it to take ten years for that to dissipate, so to get into Cannes the year that [Twilight] is finishing was fairly ridiculous."

Cannes, it seems, was a huge deal for Pattinson. While he and girlfriend Kristen Stewart, his co-star in the Twilight movies, became paparazzi and fan obsessions overnight, you sense that he has yet to make peace with his fame. A reluctant heart-throb, today he wears a black cap, a grey shirt over an off-white T-shirt, black jeans and black trainers. There is nothing about him that says superstar, give or take the chiseled features and minder outside. Neither is there much that projects the confidence you'd expect of someone who'd driven themselves to the top of one of the world's most competitive industries.

"Everybody liked [Cronenberg's] A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, but they're much more accessible than this," he says. "That made me nervous, because I thought everyone wants to see Viggo Mortensen shooting people, and this is just sitting around talking about currency markets. But the first few reviews were pretty good, and I've never really felt like that with a movie. It's definitely the best-reviewed thing I've ever done. Most of the time, I don't read them, especially with the Twlight films, where people are overwhelmed by what their opinion of the cultural relevance of it is. But with this, I read a lot, and I was terrified."

Cosmopolis, without any actual intent, has found itself tapping into the zeitgeist. Just as shooting on the film commenced, so did the Occupy movement. In the movie, Packer is driven through New York City, through protest after protest about the failings of a capitalist society. In life, Pattinson found the images he was filming being mirrored on news channels.

Once again, however, his memories are tinted with ambivalence. "I remember when Occupy happened in LA," he says. "I knew a bunch of actors who went down to it. They all drove down there, because no one takes the train, and parked one stop away, because they didn't want to be seen driving their free Audis, and then got on the train. I was like, 'What are you doing? You're probably ruining it for the other people!' I guess that's kind of a bubble; you want to say things, but you are being hypocritical. I've never really been in a position to give my opinion on political stuff before, it doesn't really come up. But suddenly you've got to take an enormous amount of responsibility."

'I was always shit at auditions. Since Twilight, I've done two. One of them was for a job I'm doing now and it was really hard'

Pattinson's career to this point hasn't given him much of an opportunity to develop a huge rapport with an audience of his own age, or older. But Pattinson is also an interesting casting for Cronenberg. The director's most recent outing, A Dangerous Method, had Michael Fassbender spanking Keira Knightley, while Viggo Mortensen analysed their every move (Mortensen, of course, being a favourite of his). But, from almost every interview that has come from Cronenberg, it seems that he does not have a single regret about plucking Patinson from teenage dreams to front such complex subject matter. And while Pattinson admits getting his head around the script was no mean feat, you sense he hopes the commitment to justifying Cronenberg's risk-taking could change his career.

"When I got this part," he says, adjusting his cap, "every single article that came out, was, 'R-Patz's struggle for credibility!'; I don't understand who invented that thing, 'R-Patz', I want to strangle them. But once you've made that step, everything afterwards is not like, 'R-Patz's continuing struggle for credibility!' You've got to come up with something else, so it gets a little bit easier. I was always shit at auditions. Since Twilight, I've done two. One of them was for a job I'm doing now and it was really hard. Two really, really long auditions that everybody was going up for. I was so happy afterwards when I got it. And it was purely because of Cosmopolis that I was thinking, 'You can go and do this as an actor, rather than just as the guy from Twilight, because you've got some foreign value now.'"

For every positive review, it will be the negative that stays with Robert Pattinson. But if our conversation is anything to go by, it seems that he's shaking off the self-censorship that came with being the face of a massive movie brand. If that happens, he might just start to enjoy himself, too.
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Robert Pattinson: 'I want to strangle whoever invented that R-Patz thing'

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"I don't really know how accepted I am," says Robert Pattinson as he sips on an enormous paper cup of Coke. "Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing.

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Cosmopolis made critics take note of Pattinson as a more serious actor. Playing Eric Packer, an isolated billionaire who only sees people as devices for his use, Pattinson's chilling role dismantles his image as a teen idol. Discussing issues such as sex, consumerism and a capitalist society, Pattinson's image becomes mellowed. The movie poster emphasises Pattinson's growth, as he appears sharp and refined in a business suit, showing his more sophisticated star image.

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In an attempt to reject his teen idol image, more recent years have seen Robert Pattinson chase after experimental films where he can test his comfortability and break the mould that the Twilight franchise made of him. He has taken risks and been fearless in his choice of projects, demonstrating diversity in his star image.

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The tabloid press portrayed Pattinson as a victim who had faced public embarrassment, whilst Stewart was slammed and annihilated for her infidelity.

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The New York Times interview with Kristen Stewart (2013)

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The New York Times interview with Kristen Stewart (2013)

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Stewart says her relationship with Pattinson was a commodity. She says it was made into a product for entertainment value. This reiterates the fact that Pattinson's personal life has been cross-examined in the public eye. It creates sympathy towards him and a more vulnerable image.

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Credit... Photograph by Karim Sadli. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé

You know the actress from her films. The real Kristen Stewart - funny and fiercely open - is only just emerging. That took years of work.

Credit... Photograph by Karim Sadli. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé

It's hard to not be charmed by Kristen Stewart's Los Feliz home, even harder to believe that it belongs to a movie star and not a college freshman. The basement den of her four-bedroom property, which hovers above Los Angeles - at once belonging to and separate from the hazy city below it - is a study in random: a stop sign on one wall, three metal letters - A, S and S - on another, a Batman action figure, a Winnie the Pooh-themed Pez dispenser, a Playboy pinball machine. The room's centerpiece, an imposing bookcase, is packed with fashion tomes, a few to do with Chanel, for whom she models; monographs featuring the work of Basquiat, Eggleston and Mapplethorpe; books about food, travel and the Beatles; and novels by Dostoyevsky, Hesse and Kafka. A chunk of shelf is devoted to Jack Kerouac, whose character Marylou she played in a film version of "On the Road."

The more mainstream chapters of Stewart's career are tucked into corners. Four volumes of the "Twilight" series - the vampire best-seller-turned-blockbuster-movie-franchise that, beginning in 2008, made Stewart arguably the most popular actress on the planet - sit near the terracotta floor, obscured by a pair of vintage wind-up toys. The shield she wore in "Snow White and the Huntsman," a movie that came out in 2012, a few months before "Breaking Dawn - Part 2," the fifth and final chapter of "The Twilight Saga," is jammed into the highest shelf.

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On Set | Kristen Stewart

The actress ponders what she would do if she weren't famous for a day - and owns up to one very strange habit.

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The actress ponders what she would do if she weren't famous for a day - and owns up to one very strange habit. Credit Credit... Clara Cullen

The year Stewart turned 22 should have been triumphant. "Breaking Dawn" and "Snow White" both topped the box office, and Stewart became, according to Forbes, Hollywood's highest-paid actress. She bought two homes (the other on the beach in Topanga), and she took in her third rescue dog, Cole, found by a friend during a round of disc golf. She also became the face of Florabotanica, a Balenciaga fragrance.

But that July, Stewart was photographed kissing Rupert Sanders, the married director of "Snow White." It was a shock to fans invested in the symmetry of Stewart's four-year relationship with her "Twilight" co-star, Robert Pattinson. Tabloid hysteria ensued, and the normally reclusive Stewart caved to media pressure, releasing an emotionally naked apology to Pattinson.

Now 26, Stewart is sitting on her couch, dressed for the skate park in tight blue jeans, a loose white T-shirt and a black cap, worn backward. Cole (along with Bernie and Bear) sleeps at her feet. She lights a cigarette, her hands uncharacteristically steady. Everything about her, in fact - the easy eye contact, casual laughter and willingness to discuss the past - is a striking departure from the often frankly miserable face presented to the world just a few years ago. Stewart has been a professional actress since she was 9, and throughout her teens and into her early 20s, she struggled with what she describes as "debilitating physical anxiety." But the attention that comes with fame, while still occasionally frenetic, "is no longer negative or fear-based," Stewart says. "I do think that's because of the storms I have weathered. It's not that they make you stronger or calloused - but they do make you a human."

"I'm not the typical showman," she adds, curling her feet up under her legs and reaching for another cigarette. "But at the same time, I want so badly to expose myself. I want to be understood and I want to be seen, and I want to do that in the rawest, purest, most naked way I can."

If that impulse wasn't clear during the "Twilight" years it's because, she says, "People wanted me and Rob to be together so badly that our relationship was made into a product. It wasn't real life anymore. And that was gross to me. It's not that I want to hide who I am or hide anything I'm doing in my life. It's that I don't want to become a part of a story for entertainment value."

For the past three years Stewart has been dating a visual-effects producer named Alicia Cargile. She scrolls through pictures of the two of them on her private Instagram account. "Look how cute she is," Stewart says at one point. "I love her so much." (Other affectionate comments are unprintable; Stewart swears like a trucker.) Only recently has she been open to a conversation about her romantic life, let alone her sexuality. "I would never talk about any of my relationships before, but once I started dating girls it seemed like there was an opportunity to represent something really positive," she says. "I still want to protect my personal life, but I don't want to seem like I'm protecting the idea, so that does sort of feel like I owe something to people."

Stewart is still navigating how much to reveal, and to whom, a challenge for anyone closely scrutinized, but particularly for an actor dependent on a connection with characters and audiences. "How do you feel like you're not being stolen from," she asks, "yet at the same time not guard yourself to the point of depriving yourself of so much goodness in life?" Her search for the answer led to many sleepless nights, which was itself a lesson. "Nothing killed me," she says. "I was skinny as hell, I looked crazy, but I was fine. I now have faith in my body to carry on, and that has made me a better actor."

An increasingly compelling and nuanced performer, Stewart describes the process at different times as "harnessing a fluid," "tapping into a magic world" and "finding a portal." It is, for her, an "explorative, meditative, moving, beautiful, transcendent experience that brings us all closer." Since the beginning, she has toggled between major studio movies and smart, acclaimed work with masterful directors. (These days, she's favoring the latter: Woody Allen's "Café Society," Drake Doremus's "Equals," Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" and Kelly Reichardt's "Certain Women.") What's new is her willingness to take on characters that might have previously overwhelmed her. In the new psychological thriller "Personal Shopper," she reunites with the director Olivier Assayas to play a woman mourning the death of her twin brother. (For her performance as a celebrity's assistant in Assayas's last film, "Clouds of Sils Maria," she became the first American actress to win a César Award, France's Oscar equivalent.) Her character is, Stewart says, "the most isolated, lonely person I've ever played, somebody that is ruled by fear and ferocity."

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ON THE COVER Kristen Stewart is featured in T's August 21st Women's Fashion issue. Credit... Photograph by Karim Sadli. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé

During production, Stewart worked 18-hour days, six days a week, and when she wasn't filming she was promoting her partnership with Chanel. "As a younger person, I would have lost steam: 'I'm tired. I don't feel good. I'm sick.' Instead I tried to make myself more sick, more tired, just to see if there ever was a breaking point, and there wasn't."

Stewart trails off. A minute later, she shakes her head and smiles. Yesterday, she explains, while visiting her dad on Father's Day, she came across a photo of the two of them at the premiere for "Panic Room," her first big movie, in which she played Jodie Foster's daughter. Then just 11, she was dressed on the red carpet in a severe, ill-fitting black outfit that she'd chosen herself. She was so nervous that a photographer asked her to calm down. "What you don't understand," she told him, "is that I actually can't open my hands." She holds up a white-knuckled fist to demonstrate.

Stewart has always had what she refers to as "high-functioning adrenal glands," only now, it seems that she's figured out a way to channel her anxiety productively, to enjoy the process of acting rather than simply enduring its trappings. When she notices me glancing at a leather-bound journal between us on the coffee table, she opens it to reveal poems she's written over the years, mostly while flying. If she's happy with how a poem has turned out, she transcribes it into the journal.

"Come," she says, leading me upstairs to a cluttered garage. The disarray makes it feel like the most intimate room in the house. A canvas, painted almost entirely in black, rests against one wall. At the center is a man in repose, halfway between sleep and consciousness, surrounded by dark. Before I can react, she says, "Yeah, I mean, I'm not, like, good. It just feels nice to apply paint to something."

Stewart is making a short film inspired by the image, which in turn evolved from one of her poems. "It's basically about that moment when you wake up and you get dressed and you realize" - she slips into first person - "I'm not sad anymore. I'm not saturated anymore. I've been dropped back into everyone else's reality and now I can live again."

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You know the actress from her films. The real Kristen Stewart - funny and fiercely open - is only just emerging. That took years of work. Credit... Photograph by Karim Sadli. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé It's hard to not be charmed by Kristen Stewart's Los Feliz home, even harder to believe that it belongs to a movie star and not a college freshman.

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Devastated Robert Pattinson has quit the LA mansion he shared with cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart

The actress apologised at the heart-throb's request for having a fling with married director Rupert Sanders and begged for a second chance.

But British actor Robert, nicknamed R-Patz, told her he needs his own space.

A source close to the star said yesterday: "Rob is devastated and deeply hurt.

"They spoke on the phone and he said 'You've completely humiliated me'.

"All the trust has gone."

Robert, 26, who met co-star Kristen, 22, while filming the vampire blockbuster Twilight, "couldn't believe what he was hearing" as his lover of three years told him the fling was just a "one off".

Furious at her betrayal with Brit Rupert, 41, he demanded she apologise and she agreed.

She said in a statement: "I'm deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I've caused.

"This momentary indiscretion has jeopardised the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry."

The source added: "Robert wanted the world to know that he hadn't done anything wrong and that she had made a fool of him publicly.

"He still can't fathom why she cheated. Kristen is begging for another chance. Robert is undecided."

A US magazine revealed it had snaps of Snow White and The Huntsman director Rupert and leading lady Kristen "in a marathon make-out session" in Hollywood.

A video shot by a fan in Berlin this year also shows Kristen gazing longingly at him.

The dad-of-two's model wife Liberty Ross, 33, is also furious about the fling. Kristen is reportedly writing to her to say sorry.

Fans have taken to Twitter to blast her and Hollywood bosses have postponed a Snow White And The Huntsman sequel.

However, experts say the scandal is unlikely to affect ticket sales for the final Twilight instalment, out this autumn.

Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said: "Fans think of Bella and Edward and Kristen and Rob like family - characters they love on screen and in real life.

"There's a soap opera going on off-screen, and people love to follow that.

"I think this only serves to raise awareness of the movie."

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'You've completely humiliated me": What devastated Robert Pattinson told cheating lover Kristen Stewart as he moves out of their LA mansion

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Devastated Robert Pattinson has quit the LA mansion he shared with cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart The actress apologised at the heart-throb's request for having a fling with married director Rupert Sanders and begged for a second chance. But British actor Robert, nicknamed R-Patz, told her he needs his own space.

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Robert Pattinson said he had never been betrayed - just one day before his girlfriend Kristen Stewart was caught kissing married director Rupert Sanders.

Movie star Robert, 26, made the naïve comments during a press day for his upcoming film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

Unaware his on and off-screen lover was having an affair with dad-of-two Sanders when he directed her in Snow White and the Huntsman, Robert said: "No, I've never been betrayed by people who are actually in my life, like my friends or even my acquaintances. No one has ever done anything." London-born R-Pattz has now left Kristen, 22, after she publicly admitted cheating on him with Sanders, 41.

The couple had been together for three years after meeting on the set of the vampire saga and have a £4million Los Angeles home. But his world came crashing down when Kristen was photographed in a clinch with Brit Rupert, who is married to model Liberty Ross, on July 17. News of the affair broke a week later.

Ironically, during Robert's interview on July 16, he spoke of the difficulties of fame, saying the prevalence of camera phones means celebrities have to be ultra careful about their behaviour in public.

He said: "I wish this (Twilight) had happened 12 years ago, before camera phones and website TMZ. Then it would have been amazing.

"Being a successful actor... if you just had the good side of fame it would have been unbelievable.

"Now actors are the most conservative people in the world because you can't do anything. Literally... you can't do anything at all. You can't trust anyone because it all becomes part of your career."

And Kristen would have been the person he trusted the most. She has publicly apologised, but Robert has refused to forgive her and is now said to be hiding out at the home of his friend Reese Witherspoon.

Here's loads more on the Rob and Kristen drama...

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"No-one has ever betrayed me": What R-Pattz said the day before cheating Kristen was caught kissing Rupert

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Robert Pattinson said he had never been betrayed - just one day before his girlfriend Kristen Stewart was caught kissing married director Rupert Sanders. Movie star Robert, 26, made the naïve comments during a press day for his upcoming film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

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Only in recent years has Pattinson opened up about the scandal. In this interview he comes across as understanding about the situation, excusing it with their youth. This shows his maturity and the good natured part of his image. The interview also emphasises his nervousness, furthering his accessible image.

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He doesn't seem the nervous type, Robert Pattinson. He always looks so calm, in the face of all those screaming girls. But there are times when he gets very anxious indeed, and the heart quickens and the behaviour changes. And when he does, he lies, he just makes stuff up. Or at least that's what he told US late-night chat-show host Jimmy Kimmel recently, when he was a guest on the show to promote his latest movie, The Rover.

Given that he was clearly quite nervous for the interview itself, perhaps he was lying all along, which would mean he wasn't, which would mean he was and so on forever. But then he proved it. As he squirmed and fidgeted in his seat, he told Kimmel, apropos of nothing, that he had "extraordinarily heavy saliva", which was why he couldn't spit very far, no more than a foot. He also said that he quite enjoyed being spat on in an erotic way. The audience loved it, and it was quite funny. But it was also quite weird.

"OK, I can explain," he says. "On all those talk shows you have to do a pre-interview with some producer the day before. And then a second before you go on, they tell you what you said in the pre-interview to prep you for it - and then you have to go and say it all again. So, I was sitting there with Jimmy, and that story I said the day before suddenly seemed not funny at all. I mean it wasn't that funny in the first place and now I've got to perform this unfunny story which Jimmy's going to fake laugh at it, and... I just can't take it. So I started panicking. I was literally pouring with sweat. And I felt myself drooling. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm starting to drool.' So, I made up this stupid story about having heavy saliva, and Jimmy's face just went, 'What the fuck are you talking about?'"

He laughs. It's a mumbled kind of laugh, full of self-deprecation and restraint. "As soon as I saw his face, I felt much better!" he grins. "I was back in my comfort zone!"

He's telling me all this while sitting in my backyard in Eagle Rock, Northeast Los Angeles. Yes, Robert Pattinson is in my house, having a beer while I putz around with the grill, a scenario that probably ought to feel weirder than it does. He's never come over before. It's not like we're mates or anything. We only met the one time, three years ago, an occasion he's long forgotten.

It was some cattle call press junket for the last Twilight movie. He was holed up in a sterile hotel suite in Beverly Hills, and I was one of a trillion journalists he met that day. I remember he showed up with a T-shirt that flapped open at the side and he hadn't noticed - it wasn't a fashion thing, the stitching had just gone. He mentioned his nerves then, too, saying he got so jumpy before auditions that he took a Xanax before the final Twilight one, only he overdid it, and showed up all drowsy. "Oh that interview! I had to live that down. People were like, 'Drug addict!' My fault. I brought it up about 50 times in the interviews, too."

This time, I suggested we try something a bit more congenial. Maybe hang out like regular people for a change? After all, he's a bloke from Barnes, south-west London, at the end of the day, 28 years old. Perhaps we could go down the pub? His people said it was too public: Barnes or not, he's still Robert Pattinson.

What if he wore a disguise, I said? Isn't that what celebrities do, wear ski masks to Starbucks and so on? They baulked: Robert really doesn't go out much, and when he does, he just goes to other people's houses.

And that's how it happened. I said, come to my house, I'll put the beers on ice and grill up some lunch. It's LA in the summertime, it's what people do. And now here he is, this tall and entirely affable Englishman in a white T-shirt and black jeans, petting my dogs and making pleasant remarks about the neighbourhood. There's no publicist in tow, no minder at the gate. You have to hand it to him: not a lot of movie stars would pitch up at a reporter's house like this, and subject themselves to questioning.

And yet today he seems relaxed, quite happy to just chill and natter as I get the food going. No sign of those nerves he was talking about. The goal is cedar plank salmon, grilled vegetables and no explosions. I thought keep it light because you never know with actors. Pick a recipe that looks harder than it is. And get loads of sides, just in case. I got a bit carried away at the Wholefoods deli this morning. Potato salad, orzo with feta, some kale thingy with raisins... Does R-Patz like raisins? Can I Google it?

"Sorry, I'd help but I'm useless with all that," he says, pointing at the grill.

But grilling's manly, that's what they say.

"I know, but my ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything," he grins.

What, like changing a tyre?

"No, just anything. Be proud of your ignorance. 'Don't ask me, I'm a man! Get someone else to do it!'" He laughs and drinks his beer. "It's funny, the less and less you do, the more the mountain of doing something grows. These days, just making a phone call is exhausting."

He's not the practical type, let's say. The other day, he tried opening a bottle with his iPhone; now he can't turn off its speakerphone. He loves Game of Thrones, but he doesn't know how to record it on his TV, so he watches it live every Sunday. There's something of the eccentric about him, the scatterbrained professor, away in his thoughts. At least this time his T-shirt is intact.

The one thing he might have done himself was drive here. He likes driving in LA, even with the traffic jams. He says he's "a relatively solitary person", so driving is perfect: he listens to stand-up comedy on Sirius satellite radio and the jams just melt away. But today, his assistant had to drop him off. Apparently, the paparazzi have got the scent again. A couple of days ago, they showed up outside Pattinson's gym class and when his personal trainer told them the actor was not there and tried to move them on, a fight ensued which ended up all over TMZ.

This morning, there were six cars outside his house.

"I don't understand why," he says, looking puzzled. "I think it goes through periods where you're assigned 'this is the guy to follow'. But whenever I see a bunch of paparazzi hanging out, I always think, 'Oh God, what have they found out!'" He laughs. "Oh, THAT love child! I totally forgot!"

It's not scandal that has put him in the cross hairs. He's just not the scandal type. The only real gossip he's been involved in was his split with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart in 2012, from which he came out smelling of roses - it was Stewart who cheated on him, and with a married man, too. No, the reason the paps are in pursuit is more prosaic: he's just busy, that's all. Over the last year, he has been diligently making movie after independent movie, in what has been his first stretch of work post-Twilight. And so far, his direction seems clear - he's working exclusively with auteurs, on films that are not obviously commercial, and in roles that are uniquely challenging and wildly different, one to the next.

Last summer, he finished The Rover in Australia, a dystopian western from David Michôd, who made 2010's brilliant Animal Kingdom. Pattinson's performance is already receiving rave reviews. He then spent 10 days on Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg's merciless satire about Hollywood, followed by Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert in which he plays Lawrence of Arabia. This spring, he made Anton Corbijn's Life, in which he plays the photographer Dennis Stock, who took iconic photos of celebrities in the Fifties. And later, there's a crime drama by the French director Olivier Assayas, co-starring Robert De Niro.

Robert as vampire Edward Cullen in the 'Twilight' blockbuster franchis e

These are just the confirmed productions. There's a long list of other compelling indie projects in the pipeline. A film with James Gray ( The Immigrant) based on David Grann's book The Lost City of Z, and a couple of films that are actually being written for him - Harmony Korine ( Spring Breakers), is writing him a gangster movie, set in Miami, and Brady Corbet, one of the killers in Michael Haneke's blood-chilling Funny Games, is developing a script called Childhood of a Leader. "It's about the youth of a future dictator in the Thirties," he says. "Like an amalgamation of Hitler, Mussolini and some others. I don't want to jinx it, but Brady is like a savant of film. I've known him for like eight years, and he's only 25 now."

This is an extraordinary résumé he's building. And he's doing it with purpose, actively seeking out the filmmakers he admires. He cold-called Harmony Korine and met him for dinner, telling The Hollywood Reporter, "it took me a long time to realise I could do that".

If it looks like he's picking projects that are everything that Twilight isn't - intelligent, adult, independent - who can blame him? Twilight may have made $3.3bn worldwide, and earned Pattinson $20m for the last instalment alone, but much of it was extracted from the piggy banks of young tween girls, the One Direction demographic, not an audience known for its taste in movies. The series was critically panned, gleefully so, and neither Pattinson nor Stewart were spared. It fared poorly in comparisons with other huge franchises of the era like Harry Potter or Hunger Games. Even Pattinson expressed his reservations, while the series was underway. He told Vanity Fair, "It's weird... kind of representing something you don't particularly like."

But auteur-led films are exactly who he is. He's not just trying to wash off the stink, he's revealing himself. Pattinson was always an indie guy, a classicist, a fan of Godard, a true cinephile. He would show up on the Twilight set, reading Molière. Corbet describes him as being "uncommonly knowledgeable about cinema". Even between Twilights, he would skip out to make ambitious dramas like Bel Ami and Cosmopolis, both in 2012. In May, David Cronenberg said, "He could grab that brass ring and keep doing big-budget studio movies, but it's not his desire to be a big Hollywood star."

"I've literally only done jobs which interest me," Pattinson says. "There have been two which I auditioned for and didn't get, but other than that..."

No franchises?

"A couple of offers, but with those things, if you express any interest, you have to do a screen test or whatever, and they make you sign a six-picture deal before you even know what the part is. It's crazy. And I didn't grow up reading comic books and stuff, so..."

It's risky what he's doing. He has a long way to fall, and yet he's chancing failure at every turn. It's not easy to work with the best directors in the business, on increasingly ambitious roles. Especially when the critics have already drawn blood: during his career they've called him a minimalist who lacks passion and emotion. With Bel Ami, it's a fair criticism, but not for Twilight - his character Edward Cullen is a vampire who isn't expressive by nature.

That's why Twilight was, he says, "one of the hardest acting jobs I've ever done". But fundamentally, he doesn't care. He feels critics give indie movies an inordinately hard time anyway: "you're judged so much more harshly if you step outside the norms of mass entertainment." And anyway, he's not doing it for the critics. Not even the audience.

"From my cod-psychoanalysis of myself, I think I do it for myself," he says. "I like to see if I'm capable of something, and I don't really care what people think, even though I read all the reviews. If it really mattered, it would have destroyed me years ago."

So he'll continue "going to school", which is how he describes the path he has chosen. "I never went to acting school, so this is just me trying to get better." And presumably, the filmmakers get a boost, too, from having such a big star attached - a boost in raising money, attracting an audience, generating publicity - all the things independent movies need?

"Mmm..." Pattinson looks skeptical. "I don't know. These films could all get made without me. It's not like I even promote them that well." Evidently his own narrative, about fame and paparazzi, tends to overwhelm whatever project he's trying to push. "I tell every production company I work for, I'm probably going to fuck up your entire marketing campaign."

And as for this idea that the Twilight audience will follow him, Pattinson doesn't buy it for a second. "They won't go. I've said that from the beginning. Also, I'm trying to do stuff that will confuse an audience. When you watch a Joaquin Phoenix movie, his performance doesn't remind you of his other performances. That element of being an actor is almost completely gone."

A nice thought, though - the Twilight demographic subjecting itself to the twisted visions of David Cronenberg. He beams. "We'll see. I think Maps to the Stars is probably more accessible than The Rover ..."

***

'Maps...' is Pattinson's second collaboration with the Canadian director, the first was Cosmopolis two years ago. And like so many of Cronenberg's films, it's unsettling, nightmarish even. Pattinson insists that he's "the sweetest guy in the world, like a really kind university lecturer". But Maps isn't sweet or kind. If the Twihards come, they'd better be ready.

Hollywood has long been satirised by filmmakers, but 'Map's goes further than anything previously - there's incest, pyromania and murder, the deaths of both children and animals. The characters are so grotesque they're often hard to watch, and yet since it's Cronenberg, they're also quite funny; it's that queasy experience of being amused and deeply disturbed at the same time.

Pattinson's role is small but memorable. He's a limo driver and one of the only sane characters on the screen, albeit an opportunistic and amoral one. He starts a relationship with a personal assistant (Mia Wasikowska), and then in full view of her, has sex with her boss, Julianne Moore. They do it in the back of his limo. It's a scene he remembers well. "It was the first time I met Julianne," he says. "And that was the first scene I shot. It was that part of the scene, too, the sex part."

This wasn't some directorial manipulation to elicit a certain performance - it was just pragmatism, an efficient schedule. But for Pattinson it presented some unique challenges. Not only did he have to plunge into sex with a perfect stranger - and it wasn't pretty sex, but grunting doggie style, neither side particularly enjoying themselves - but he had one of his nervous episodes in the process. Call it performance anxiety, just not that kind.

"I noticed I was sweating," he says. "Like really heavy sweat." Already there's a theme here, just like the saliva story, Pattinson is a man who has sweaty adventures. When the going gets tough, his glands get going. In this case, we're not talking a damp film of sweat across the brow, but big bulbous droplets, like he's got malaria, or he's a footballer in Manaus. "I remember trying to catch the drops as they fell onto her back. It was weird. Huge splashing drops. At one point she turned around and said, 'Are you all right?'" (There may be no connection, but Pattinson took up meditation on the 'Maps' set.)

Moore won best actress at Cannes this year for her performance as Havana Segrand, a fading star who's so damaged that she literally dances with joy when she hears that a rival actress's son has drowned. In another scene, she invites her assistant, or "chore whore", to watch as she tries to take a shit. "I've definitely met people like Julianne's character," he says. "I just don't think she's a bad person. I see her as desperate and sad. But maybe my moral compass is just all over the place!"

What's the worst behaviour you've seen?

"There's so much I... it's amazing how quickly people change in this business. There was one guy who'd never been on a movie set before. And after just three days, he was holding out his water bottle and waiting for someone to take it. Three days. Some people just have it in them."

And people just accept it?

"Well, yes, but it's not like you get away with it. This actress was doing a scene in the bath and she kept complaining about the temperature, how it was too hot or too cold. So everyone pissed in it and put a bunch of bubble bath in afterwards so you couldn't smell it! This stuff happens. That's why I avoid asking for anything. I don't want to get anyone's piss on me."

***

There was no chance of having lunch at Robert's house (we asked). It's just not his style. "People have journalists over because it's part of the whole 'show'," he says. "But my house doesn't reflect my personality. There's, like, no furniture! It looks a bit psychotic." He's renting a house on Mulholland Drive, which he describes as "weird and a bit cabin-fevery". He's been there a year. "But I spend most of my time in one room anyway."

Before that, though, he owned a mansion in Griffith Park, a gorgeous neighbourhood of canyons, hikes and all kinds of trendiness in central LA. Not that Pattinson could enjoy much of that stuff: he hiked the canyon maybe twice, and as always, avoided all the cool bars. "I can't go to hip places," he shrugs. "I have to find weird little restaurants on the fringes. But they're so much nicer. I love empty bars. Any empty bar, actually."

He adored his house. Soon as he saw it, he fell for it. "The garden was so huge there were people working on it every day, and you forget," he says. "So you'd be naked in the pool, and there's the guy for the koi pond. Hi!"

He'd still be there, if he wasn't so popular with the paparazzi - that is, if he wasn't Robert Pattinson. The snappers were everywhere. "They photographed anyone who came up to the gate, anyone who rang the bell, and they followed any car that came in and out," he says. "I used to dress up my assistant as me, and get him to drive off with like five cars following him around for hours."

So he sold it for $6.37m earlier this year, and for a while, he might have gone in any direction. He thought about Toronto but "the winters are ridiculous". New York was a possibility, but "everyone honks their horns all the time, which drives me absolutely insane!" And London just didn't feel right anymore, not after seven years in LA.

"My friends are all having kids and stuff, it's a totally different life," he says. "And I like people who want to actually make things and do stuff. In England, it's so difficult that most people just give up."

So LA won out. "Just waking up when it's sunny every day means so much to me," he says. "I like the levity here." But this time, it had to be a gated community, and there aren't that many of them in LA, oddly enough. "All the houses are like $25m, these enormous castles," he says. It's not the money that's the issue, it's the size. His last place, he says, was like Versailles, but he leads a somewhat ascetic lifestyle now, immersed in his interests. His only real extravagance is his collection of 17 guitars.

So he rented the place he's in now. And gates give him great comfort. Besides, his next door neighbour is Suge Knight, the former CEO of Death Row Records. The same Knight who was entrenched in the Bloods gang of Compton, who would carry out his own beatings, and who has done his share of prison. "He's really nice!" Robert says. "I see him playing catch with his kid and stuff. And he lives in this nice little cottage, it's really tasteful!"

***

It's easy to forget that Pattinson didn't arrive at his extreme celebrity in increments - he was plunged in. Imagine what that's like.

You're a 15-year-old in south-west London, acting in the local theatre company because that's where the cute girls hang out. Your mum's a model booker, your dad sells vintage cars, and you'd like to be a singer, deep down, so you do so in a band called Bad Girls. Even after you score a part in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), you're still not sold on acting. Maybe political speechwriting is more your thing? But your agent persuades you to go to LA to read for some romcom called Post Grad (2009), so you go and stay at her house, try for the part, and when you don't get it, you're crushed. You're 21 and it feels like your career is over already.

As wizard Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire

When your agent brings up this other audition, you say fine, whatever, no one else is hiring you. It's some vampire movie and the director has already seen 5,000 boys. Also: you're too old. But who knows, maybe it'll be like the director's other movie, Thirteen, which was a pretty cool indie.

And that was it - last chance saloon one minute, Bieber fever the next. You stayed more or less the same, but the world around you changed forever.

"I remember when it happened," he says. "I was going to clubs in LA and you had to call the promoters ahead of time to get on the guest list. But one time I forgot to call, and I was on the list anyway. That's when I knew. I showed up with mustard down my T-shirt and they're like giving me the wink, 'Yeah, man, you're on the list.'"

And from there the madness began - the constant screaming, the hounding by the press, the dramatic loss of privacy. Dating Kristen Stewart didn't exactly help. The Twilight audience was already having issues separating fantasy from fact, and here was a real-life soap opera to confuse them further. You know the juicy part, how Stewart had an affair (with the director Rupert Sanders in July 2012), how the tabloids went bananas. On Conan, Will Ferrell broke down and expressed the feelings of a million Twihards: "She's a trampire!"

Like all things Twilight, the whole K-Stew / R-Patz saga was horribly overcooked. It's not unusual for co-stars to date - they were both living and working in a strange bubble for many years, both of them under intense and obsessive scrutiny. And then it ended in betrayal. "Shit happens, you know?" he laughs. "It's just young people... it's normal! And honestly, who gives a shit?"

Well, a lot of people, that's what's weird.

"The hardest part was talking about it afterwards. Because when you talk about other people, it affects them in ways you can't predict," he says. "It's like that scene in Doubt [2008, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a priest suspected of inappropriate behaviour], where he's talking about how to take back gossip? They throw all those feathers from a pillow into the sky and you've got to go and collect all the feathers."

***

Some pity Pattinson for the way celebrity has deformed his life. We assume fame damages people, especially the young, so Pattinson must surely be hurting.

But he isn't. Not really. He always saw his experience as surreal and not about him at all. There's a toughness about him, that's not immediately apparent, his nervous episodes notwithstanding. He emerged from the Twilight zone, as an amused observer of his own experience, equally practised at deflecting adoration and its opposite. While it wasn't always easy, it wasn't that hard either. "There was a time, three years ago, when I didn't know where to live where I wouldn't be trapped in my home, you know? But I worked it out. It's not that big a deal in the end. Half of it is in your head."

He has a very English, roll-up-your-sleeves resilience. He didn't reach for rehab or therapists to help him on his way. His own grip is pretty sure. "I know what makes me happy, if I'm feeling down," he grins. "Doing things that make your friends jealous. It really works!" He laughs. "I just say, 'I'm working with David Cronenberg,' and they go, 'Oh really?' I love that."

His friends might well be jealous of the notice he's getting for The Rover right now. It's arguably his best performance, and it responds to critics who would call him unexpressive. He might be a minimalist in real life - living in a single room in an unfurnished house, meditating and relishing his time alone - but as an actor, he's opening up.

Pattinson plays a man who's been left to die by his brother in post-apocalypse Australia. The brother steals Guy Pearce's car, and Pattinson and Pearce team up to find him - Pearce to recover his car, Pattinson to find out why he'd been abandoned. His character is clearly impaired somehow. In the film, Pearce asks him, "What are you, a halfwit?" Pattinson is all tics and stumbling speech, a weak, confused look in his eyes. He may not have gone full retard, but he's on the way, surely?

"That's not how I thought about him," he says. He saw his character as someone who'd been severely bullied, like a battered wife who kept going back to her abuser. "He has zero self-esteem, he's just been criticised so much, that every time he starts speaking, he's scared that someone will shut him down."

In forthcoming dystopian western, 'The Rover'

The location was epic: nine hours north of Adelaide, in the middle of nowhere, 150 miles from the next town. The two actors lived in old shipping containers fitted with windows and swarming with flies, in a village of only 50 people. Temperatures routinely rose to 49ºC. And the kangaroos were so unaccustomed to seeing vehicles that they'd often just jump out in front of them. "Half the crew would have, like, blood splattered all over their cars," he says. "It's dangerous. If they jump into your windscreen, they'll freak out and just kick you to death inside your car."

He loved it there. David Michôd told The LA Times, "I don't think I ever saw an actor so happy as when I saw Rob coming down the street toward me all by himself. He was practically bouncing." No one knew him there. He could go anywhere he wanted. The outback suited him perfectly, and he still misses the isolation. "I forget what the aboriginal language is, but there's no word for 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'. And there was this guy, who'd just sit, covered in flies, the entire day, waiting to be called onto set. No comment, nothing. There's a Zen you get out there. I mean there's nothing to do anyway. It's not like you have to get across town for a meeting!"

We sit for a moment and listen to the birds. It's been a good lunch. He polished off the fish and helped himself to beers - three each, which isn't bad going, especially in this city. It's not the outback, but it's quiet here. And he likes a bit of silence. Pattinson the minimalist. I ask him whether he had any nervous episodes on The Rover, his most open and vulnerable performance yet. Clearly it wasn't short of sweat, it was 49ºC. He thinks for a minute. "Nope."

And his phone goes off. "Sorry, this might be my..." And a voice says out loud, "OK, buddy, time to go." And he laughs. "I've got to go across town for a meeting."

The Rover is released on August 15. Maps to the Stars is out in the autumn.

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Just when everyone thought it was going so well, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have reportedly 'split up' for the second time.

They saved their relationship after Kristen made a shock confession that she cheated on her long-term boyfriend Rob.

The 22-year-old was pictured kissing married film director and father-of-two Rupert Sanders and was forced to release a public apology.

But since her "momentary indiscretion" it was believed that the Twilight co-stars had fully reconciled.

They were pictured together at parties and public appearances looking happy and very much in love.

But reports today reveal that Rob made the decision to end his romance with Kristen to 'go back to being good friends.'

"She flew to LA and was supposed to be Rob's date for the Golden Globes, but he told her he wants to cool it off," a source told The Sun.

"He loves her but would rather go back to being good friends so they can rebuild their trust and focus on work after Twilight."

Are they dating, mating or still hating?

We've made this timeline - a collection of quotes and public apologies, rumours and tabloid sources but most importantly a point of reference for anyone who's interested (who isn't?) in the latest Hollywood love triangle - or TWI-angle, in this case.

Now go fetch your reading glasses and enjoy.

April 2008: Kristen and Rob "bond" during the filming of Twilight and had their first interview with MTV, mostly spent talking and laughing together.

November 2008: The rumours that Kristen and Rob are romantically involved begin to spread after a saucy photoshoot and interview with Vanity Fair. Photographer Peggy Sirota was asked by VF.com to release the full set of pictures after Twilight fans were begging to see more.

May 2009: It's 'the kiss that almost was', when Kristen and Robert accepted Best Kiss trophy at the MTV Movie Awards for Twilight. They pulled off the biggest tease ever (take note, Britney and Madonna) by pretending to go in for a kiss and pulling at the very last second. Kristen turned to the audience and the cameras and said: "Thank you so much!". Yeah, you're welcome.

August 2009 : Nobody knew whether or not their sex was on fire but the pair were spotted cosying up to each other at a Kings Of Leon concert in Vancouver. A source of US Weekly said: "They've decided to be more public about going out now. They're not boyfriend and girlfriend, but they've definitely hooked up."

September 2009: OK! Magazine (US) printed the headline 'ENGAGED!' alongside a picture of Rob and Kristen. A source told the mag: "If Kristen is looking for Rob, she'll say, 'Has anyone seen my husband?"' "And Rob loves to say, 'Have you met my lovely wife, Kristen?' It's cute. They're like a couple of love-struck teenagers."

October 2009: It was exactly one year since lovebirds Robert and Kristen posed together for Vanity Fair but this time around Rob's alone - and he dismissed reports that they're an item. "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!'?" he said.

November 2009: After Rob's outburst about their relationship it was Kristen's turn. She told Entertainment Weekly that she's tired of people (mainly reporters) asking about her relationship. "I probably would've answered it if people hadn't made such a big deal about it," she said. "But I'm not going to give the fiending an answer. I know that people are really funny about 'Well, you chose to be an actor, why don't you just f*****g give your whole life away?! Can I have your firstborn child?'". Wow.

April 2011 : They get photographed together nearly touching noses in the midst of a kiss while celebrating the premiere of Robert's movie Water For Elephants - but STILL there's no official word that they're shacking up together.

October 2011 : Finally, Kristen admits they're together! Well, kind of. She told GQ that her "boyfriend is English". And when the reporter pressed a bit harder for a name (all we want is a name, Kristen!), she said: "Come on, guys, it's so obvious!"

May 2012: Kirsten attends the Cannes premiere of Robert's film Cosmopolis, and was like a giddy schoolgirl when giving her review to MTV. "He's so good in it!" she gushed about Pattinson's performance. "He's really, really [good]. I don't even know how he [did it]. I couldn't even understand it. It's so good, it's so cool, I'm so proud of him. Thank God." Not sure why God is getting all of the credit for Rob's hard work, though.

July 2012: Robert tells Blackbook magazine that he's not getting married to Kristen - yet. "There was a magazine, with these pictures, saying I was getting married. No one ever knows what is true or what isn't," he said. "Even my own mum called to ask me if it was true. It's not. At least, not yet."

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July 17: Kristen was said to be going out for a routine trip to the gym but ended up on a detour of LA with Rupert Sanders. The pair were seen together in a parking-lot and photos obtained by a paparazzo show the actress and film director being intimate together, with Rupert kissing Kristen "all over her body" according to US reports. They left the parking lot and continued to cuddle out in the open on a hiking trail with views over the Hollywood sign - and Kristen was seen with Robert's baseball cap in her hand at this moment.

July 19: Rob and Kristen went to their regular hangout Hotel Café to catch some live-music together. They left as a couple and looked very much together. This would probably be the night that Rob thinks back to during any potential showdown talks.

July 22: They were in character as Edward and Bella at the Teen Choice Awards, where The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn won a surfboard (it's an official award and not some kind of raffle prize, believe it or not). Still, we see no signs of heartbreak.

July 24: The world was shocked by the revelation that Kristen had a brief fling with the married director of her new film Snow White And The Hunstmen, sources told People (US). "Kristen is absolutely devastated," says one source. "It was a mistake and a complete lapse in judgment."

The source added: "She wasn't having an affair with Rupert. It was just a fleeting moment that shouldn't have happened," says the source. "She never meant to hurt anyone. She's a good person who just made a bad choice."

July 25 : Kristen and Rupert are quick to release apologies through People (US), she tells Rob that she loves him, she loves him, she loves him etc etc etc . While Rupert tells his wife and kids that he hopes they can work things out . His wife Liberty spoke about her happy marriage before posting her last tweet "wow", then her account was removed.

July 26 : The same US news outlet, People, report that Robert has moved out of the £4 million love nest he shared with Kristen while she was spotted leaving her gym, just eight days after the same trip led to the entire scandal. AND, despite being the poutiest star ever on the red carpet she picked this day - of all days - to crack a smile .

July 26: Sources close to Rob say he's 'distraught beyond belief' and has gone into hiding having felt 'betrayed and embarrassed' by her public apology. But Kristen remains hopeful the couple they will save their relationship, according to reports.

July 26: A source at the New York Post said this about R-Pattz's reaction: "Rob and Kristen were having a long and intense conversation backstage, and he looked miserable, heartbroken and humiliated. She was pleading. Rob is deeply in love with Kristen and is very jealous when other men hit on her. This will crush him."

July 28: "Rob wants to have a man to man chat with Rupert to find out exactly what happened between him and Kristen," a source close to the Twilight star exclusively told RadarOnline.com.

July 29: A massive moving truck was spotted at Rob and Kristen's house in LA . Might be a bit of a clue that it's over then.

July 29: A source told the Sunday Mirror that R-Pattz was ready to propose before he found out about the affair.

"Robert hoped to marry Kristen and was making preparations to spring a proposal before she admitted cheating. He had bought the house in Los Angeles to be their home and saw them staying there for a long time. Now Rob is angry - he's left the mansion and not spoken to her since. They have exchanged heated text messages only."

July 29 : Kristen cheated for months with Rupert Sanders say his wife's relatives, according to Sunday newspaper The People.

July 31: Film producer Giovanni Agnelli reckons that Kristen and director Rupert Sanders didn't have a fling after all... even though she publicly apologised for it. He posted online: "I'll say right now what the manipulative media isn't saying... Kristen Stewart did not have any type of sex with Rupert Sanders . The spin that keeps growing on this story is staggering. There was NO on set affair. Stop printing LIES."

July 31: Rupert was pictured for the first time since and is seen still wearing his wedding ring.

July 31: Robert is said to be 'dreading' the next Twilight promotional tour. "He is in pieces but the Twilight love triangle storyline is nothing without him and Kristen," a source told Perez Hilton. "It is eating him up that he has no choice but to see her again because of work. His humiliation is total."

Aug 1: Robertis said to be desperate to sit down and talk with Rupert's wife Liberty to try and figure out if Kristen is telling the truth and the affair was a "momentary indiscretion" or whether it had been going on for months, as Liberty's family believe.

Aug 1: R-Pattz's spokesperson barks at E! Online to deny he's cancelled promotional duties for his next film Cosmopolis: "Cospmopolis is a film that Robert is very proud of and looks forward to supporting. No confirmed engagements have been cancelled. Any reports to the contrary are inaccurate." You have every right to be scared.

Aug 1: Rumours fly about the whereabouts of the luscious Pattinson. Some say he's staying at Water For Elephants co-star Reese Witherspoon's holiday home in Cailfornia. Others that he's been spotted in a trendy East London bar... perhaps he's a creature with strange mythical powers after all (like time travel).

Aug 2: 'Nobody will give a s***t,' according to Twilight co-star who reckons Kristen cheating on Rob won't cause a problem when the cast hook up in September. Christian Serratos told US Weekly: "Of course people are fans of us now, but I think above anything, they're fans of these characters. I don't think anyone's really gonna give a s**t. They're gonna see the movie; it's going to be awesome."

Aug 2: The promotion for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will go "full steam ahead". President of worldwide marketing, Nancy Kirkpatrick, told Entertainment Weekly: "While it is studio policy not to comment on the personal lives of actors, Summit is moving full steam ahead and looking forward to this November's opening of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. We are confident that the film delivers amazing entertainment for our passionate fans and general audience alike."

Aug 4: "No-one has ever betrayed me". Rob's world came crashing down when Kristen was photographed in a clinch with Rupert on July 17. News of the affair broke a week later. But Ironically, during Robert's interview on July 16, he spoke of the difficulties of fame, saying the prevalence of camera phones means celebrities have to be ultra careful about their behaviour in public. He said: "I wish this (Twilight) had happened 12 years ago, before camera phones and website TMZ. Then it would have been amazing. Being a successful actor... if you just had the good side of fame it would have been unbelievable. Now actors are the most conservative people in the world because you can't do anything. Literally... you can't do anything at all. You can't trust anyone because it all becomes part of your career."

Aug 5: Is there ANOTHER-another man? Rob is now accusing Kristen of cheating on him with a second bloke, producer Giovanni Agnelli, according to US website Radar Online. A source told the gossip website: "Rob knows Agnelli and has been calling him a lot since Kristen has been there," an insider said. "He wants to know why Kristen is staying there at his house?" the source continued. "He is super angry now and has accused Giovanni of sleeping with Kristen too."

Aug 6: R-Pattz returns! Rob goes cowboy dancing with friends on first night out since Kristen Stewart cheated on him. He went out to the Deer Lounge with friends and an employee at the establishment told Radar Online : "I've been told by several people that Robert Pattinson was here enjoying the music with his friends. "He seemed in good spirits. I wasn't on that night so I didn't personally see him, but several others did." The Deer Lodge has been a popular entertainment venue since 1932, and offers live music, dancing, restaurant and, according to its website, plenty of 'warm cowgirl hospitality.'

Aug 6: Despite the fact Rupert has been pictured wearing his wedding ring he STILL hasn't seen his wife, Liberty Ross, since details of his infidelities became world knowledge. US magazine People reported: "They seemed like a perfectly happy family. This was devastating for her. She's been focused just on her kids through this," the source says. "It's what she cares about the most." However, the shock of the scandal is apparently fading. "Now she's really feeling strong and looks forward to resuming her life," the source says. But that doesn't mean a reconciliation is in the works, according to the showbiz mag.

Aug 7: Woah, everyone's out and about! Kristen was spotted working out at Gold's Gym with her personal trainer while Liberty Ross was seen with with her two children. Rupert wasn't with his wife but was photographed jogging - still wearing his wedding ring. And so it continues...

Aug 7: Finally, we have actual dates for when R-Pattz will be making his first public appearance. It's been two weeks since he properly went into hiding but a representative for new movie Cosmopolis confirmed that the actor will be in front of the media three times next week. On Monday (13th), Rob will attend the premiere and red-carpet in Manhattan, on Tuesday (14th) he joins director for a press event before the main event.... a LIVE TV interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday (15th).

Aug 7: We have a visual on Liberty Ross who's surfaced without her wedding ring looking chic wearing a navy suit in L.A. While neither Liberty or Rupert have officially filed for divorce she appears to be sending a loud and clear message about the status of their relationship.

Aug 8: Liberty met up with her cheating husband Rupert at an office building in Beverly Hills today, before being whisked away to a fancy lunch with a mystery man. In contrast, love-rat Rupert was sat on a step eating a takeaway sandwich. Before they parted ways, an older man ushered the mother-of-two into the waiting vehicle, he turned to look at the English director with a look of utter revulsion on his face. It's believed he may even be her lawyer. After lunch, Liberty was seen cuddling up to the mystery man - smiles all around.

Aug 8: Pictures emerge of Kristen appearing to show the strain of the split by having a hysterical breakdown. The public outburst stunned on-lookers as Kristen had to calm herself before driving away.

Aug 8: According to reports in the US, Kristen is planning a reunion with Rob BEFORE they are forced to meet for Twilight promo. She hopes to rendezvous and reunite with him next week on the Isle of Wight. A source told PerezHilton.com: "Kristen thinks that if anywhere will remind Rob of what they had together, it's there. They've shared happy times on the island and even talked at one point about how it'd be their ideal wedding destination."

Aug 8: Robert Pattinson will speak to Stewart! Oh, we mean Jon Stewart the US telly chap - not Kristen. It's going to be on Monday 13th August, ahead of his turn out for Good Morning America on the 15th. Expect some good gossip and some follow up news at the second interview.

Aug 9: Kristen Stewart has reportedly pulled out of the London premiere of her new movie 'On The Road' because she is too embarrassed to appear in public in the wake of her cheating scandal.

Aug 9: Liberty Ross looks radiant wearing a white vest and a crucifix for her meeting with a divorce lawyer. But TMZ report that a divorce isn't the end goal and in face she's taking Rupert to a family therapist to fix their marriage.

Aug 10: Another interview with Kristen Stewart and R-Pattz has emerged that makes for uncomfortable reading post-affair. They gave a joint interview to US publication Entertainment Weekly back in July, which was around the same time she was nuzzling up to Rupert in a fashion that was definitely over-friendly. Kristen said: "I don't like people like that," she said. "People who are a complete non-person but somehow through the lens seem like they are 'on' and interesting and engaged. "I care way more about the people standing in the room. I don't want anyone leaving and saying, 'God, that girl is so fake'."

Aug 14: In his first interview since girlfriend Kristen Stewart admitted cheating on him, R-Pattz managed not to cry. Interviewer Jon Stewart said: "OK, let's just do this," as he brought out two tubs of Ben & Jerry's and a couple of spoons. "Now, we're just a couple of gals talking," he explained. "All right...Tell me everything." R-Pattz replied: "I'm trying to avoid eating this, I'm going to split my Spanx." But Rob did add: "My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap, and I didn't hire a publicist," Pattinson revealed. "I'm going to hire a publicist."

Aug 14: Rob was also on the red carpet for the premiere of Cosmopolis, he faced the cameras, looked extremely cool and probably made K-Stew hate herself (even more). He even managed a few smiles as well.

Aug 15: Robert Pattinson laughs at accusations of misery after K-Stew's affair in an extraordinary new interview with Showbiz Tonight. In the teaser for the show - airing next Tuesday - he says: "Since the first Twilight, you enter this kind of realm where you get stuff reported about you, and it's weird. In terms of gossip rumors not matching reality. You start having a total disassociation."

Aug 15: Is this Robert's new girlfriend? R-Pattz spotted on a date with mystery women in private members club but the pair weren't spotted together.

Aug 15: Reports that Kristen has been dropped from the next Snow White film surface, which should only serve to add to her misery.

Aug 17: Kristen pulls out of presenting the MTV Video Music Awards in September. She was due to host alongside R-Pattz, so that could have got kinda awkward. She plans to head to the Toronto International Film Festival to promote her movie On The Road instead.

Aug 17: Kristen's no-show on the red carpet at the London premiere of On the Road, leaves her co-stars to fend off questions about her cheating. Her co-star in the film Rob Sturridge gets pretty angry over being quizzed about his pal R-Pattz and snaps at reporters.

Aug 19: Kristen is living on a diet of Red Bull and cigarettes according to a source at Showbizspy.com. The insider said: "She's been hiding out at the Los Angeles home of a producer friend and is looking pale and worn-out. Whenever anyone tries to push her to eat even a small bowl of soup, she either claims that she's just had something, which isn't true, or that she's nauseous and there's no chance of keeping anything down. Kristen is grief-stricken and has hit rock-bottom. In many ways, Kristen living off cigs and Red Bull is a way of punishing herself."

Aug 20: No surprises here but an official word that neither Rob or Kristen will be making an appearance and the Twilight convention. The estranged off-screen couple and Taylor Lautner have opted out of attending the final four official Twilight conventions on the weekends of August 25, September 29), October 5 and November 3, according to Zap2it.com

Aug 23: R-Pattz jokes about being homeless by telling Jimmy Kimmel: "I'm living in a trash can". He also reveals plans to reunite with Kristen for the Twilight premiere in November, telling mates that he's going to walk down the red carpet with her to save her embarrassment.

Aug 24: Liberty Ross was at the Los Angeles bash for new film Lawless and she was still not wearing her wedding ring.

Aug 28: According to Look magazine, Rob finally took one of Kristen's desperate calls and spoke to her for over an hour before agreeing to meet up for the first time since July 25.

Sept 4: Kristen told British Vogue: "I know if you haven't thought about how you want to present a very packaged idea of yourself then it can seem like you lack ambition. But, dude, honestly? I can't. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people." Oooh, what CERTAIN people could she possibly mean?

Sept 6: Kristen wore Rob's t-shirt as she prepares for her first red carpet appearance for new film On The Road at Toronto Film Festival. The word IRIE is defined as meaning 'the way you feel when you have no worries - to be at total peace with your current state of being'. Weird.

Sept 7: Anyone else feel a bit sorry for her? Kristen pictured alone in Toronto while Rob attends the awards in LA with Taylor Lautner and the rest of the cast

Sept 7: New quotes emerged from Kristen, just weeks before the pictures of her cheating emerged, she told Vogue journalist Christa D'Souza: "My God, I'm so in love with my boyfriend. I wish he were here now. I think I want to have his babies." Before adding: "I love the way he smells. And him me. Like, he loves to lick under my armpits." Gross.

Sept 9: Kristen gives a massive hint she's back together with Rob. At the Toronto Film Festival where she is promoting new movie On The Road seem to suggest that the pair are actually still together. Kristen said these words: "We're going to be fine. We're totally fine." What could this possibly mean?

Sept 11: According to a few spies at the Toronto Film Festival, Kristen was spotted chatting to hunk James Franco. A mole told a number of US gossip sites that Kristen was giggling and flirting the whole time. A source told Radar Online: "At the end of their chance meeting, Franco took Stewart's number and asked her out for dinner. Kristen initially said no, but is mulling over the idea. James definitely wants to see Kristen again, and there's nothing better for a heartbroken girl than to be admired by a handsome man."

Sept 16: A source told The Sun: "They pretty much decided they couldn't live without each other. Kristen poured her heart out to Robert and told him it was a one-off and a mistake." The insider added: "Rob sees it as Kristen made a really stupid mistake. After a lot of long tearful talks, they've worked it out. Rob can see how truly sorry Kristen is and has totally forgiven her. They really do love each other."

Confused? Angry? Upset? Wait until you hear the latest update...

Sept 19: American magazine US Weekly reports that Rob and Kristen are back on after a "dramatic make-up". The magazine says the pair have met "a few times" and that "friends think they'll be a couple again". Oooh.

Sept 19: Liberty Ross is seen holding hands with her ex-boyfriend following a night out in LA - is this two fingers to Rupert?

Sept 21: Rob is apparently seen 'cruising' around in the car with Kristen, with Twitter reports that they were driving through a residential area in LA together.

Sept 24: The huge Twihard fan who originally had a YouTube rant that went something along the lines of 'HOW COULD YOU DO THIS KRISTEN?!' records a new video. Emma Clark (otherwise known by her YouTube handle of nuttymadam3575) now tells everyone to calm down about R-Patz and K-Stew's reported reunion. That's when you know it's official.

Sept 25: Despite her night out with her ex-boyfriend, Liberty is seen with her wedding ring BACK ON and a big smile on her face, with a friend confirming she's planning to move on.

Sept 26: In a HUGE DEVELOPMENT, R-Pattz and Kristen are said to have moved back in together. "They are living together and have reconciled", says a source to US magazine, "But he is extra-sensitive right now". Despite the happy news (for her, anyway), Kristen gets snapped at the airport looking miserable (above).

Oct 11: Right then, here's a picture of R-Patz in a dimly lit club, sitting very closely to a blonde lady and talking to her, with a smile on his face. Now, if we were Kristen , or indeed if this was our boyfriend who had been snapped in this way, our suspicions would definitely be raised and we might ask questions such as: 'Who is she?' 'Why were you snuggled up so close?' 'How long did you speak to her for?'

Oct 14: The Twilight co-stars spent Saturday night together at a Hollywood's Chateau Marmont, according to Hollywoodlife.com. Onlookers told the US insiders that the couple 'cosied up to each other'.

Oct 15: To give Twilight fans a taste of what's to come (clue: fog machines, fake blood and extreme scrutiny on how Kristen Stewart acts around Robert Pattinson) - the film makers have released this promotional poster. It's a step closer to seeing Kristen and Rob back together after she confessed to cheating on him after being pictured kissing a married film director.

Oct 16: KRISTEN AND ROB HAVE BEEN PICTURED TOGETHER. repeat. KRISTEN AND ROB HAVE BEEN PICTURED TOGETHER. Entertainment Tonight have published a still of the couple together on its website, and it's claimed the snap was taken on Sunday night at the Ye Rustic Inn.

Oct 17: Rob and Kristen are ready to ditch the Hollywood glamour and move to Cornwall, according to The Sun. A source revealed: A few weeks ago, he took Kristen to Lizard Point for a four-day trip and hardly anyone bothered them. They had a fabulous few days just being normal. They agreed to buy a bolthole there and, after setting their hearts on a couple of remote cottages, are hoping to finalise on one soon. It's yet another sign they're firmly back on track as a committed couple and not looking back."

Oct 17: In the latest pictures of RobSten together in public for the first time since her affair - K-Stew can be seen resting her head on her boyfriend. We're no body language experts (clearly) but they looked very much an item.

Oct 17: Kristen Stewart has gone to expensive lengths to be closer to Rob. According to Real Estalker, she purchased a $2.195million home - 1.5 miles from Rob's place.

Oct 19: Just in case you were still on the fence about whether Kristen and R-Patz were back on, they've been snapped snogging half naked in the garden. The pair have been photographed hugging and kissing by the pool at Kristen's new mansion in LA, with US website Pop Sugar revealing the pictures online. Wearing a black bikini, Kristen is seen emerging from the water and wrapping herself around Rob, before the Twilight actor leans down and plants a kiss right on her lips. There's no doubt about the fact that the people in the snaps are Rob and K-Stew, with this final shred of evidence proving that they are definitely back together.

Oct 23: It's only been three months since Liberty Ross saw pictures of her husband cheating on her with Kristen Stewart. But the actress is showing no sign of heartbreak after Rupert Sanders was caught kissing the 22-year-old. In her first public statement since the scandal she said: "I believe that we're all on journeys and we are all given lessons at certain times in our lives. Sometimes, when things seem really bad, you have to be able to see the good and learn from it, and just move forward as graciously as possible."

Oct 26: Gotcha! Here's R-Patz and Kristen Stewart hiding their faces in the back of a limousine.

Oct 31: Halloween brings Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson together as they wear matching masks and HOLD HANDS. R-Patz and K-Stew kept things refreshingly low-key, pairing their budget masks with their usual dressed-down clothing. On a side note, whilst we're obsessively over-analysing this photo - does R-Patz's cap have 'tosa' emblazoned down the side? That's the last (incorrectly-spelt) word we'd use to describe the luscious-haired one.

Nov 2: Well this was a bit of an anti-climax, wasn't it? We were really hoping for at least a bit of drama when Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson faced the cameras together for the first time since she cheated on him. But they both looked at ease and spent most of their time laughing or being happy. Not the Total Wipeout-style body bashing extraordinaire you might have been expecting. It was far from an episode of Jeremy Kyle and all of the chat was Twilight related, though it did wander off slightly when the couple made some LOLs about their dodgy Halloween costume.

Nov 7: After weeks of dodging questions about her personal life, Kristen Stewart has finally been forced to discuss her relationship with Robert Pattinson after being blindsided with a very difficult question on LIVE television. Reporter lady, present us with your back and we will slap it for you. Visibly furious and unable to think of a quick response, Kristen steamed: "Well funny you should mention THAT."

Nov 8: It's R-Patz's turn to be quizzed about Kristen Stewart on live TV. "Yesterday I had asked Kristen if you and she had gotten back together. Did you see what she said?" Today Show host Savannah Guthrie asked him."Uh, no. What did she say?" Rob asked in return. "She said, 'Keep them guessing," Savannah responded. "I want to ask, because we get asked it all the time."

"Who is actually asking? Is it in your contract?" Rob replied in what we think was his attempt at being strong. He went on to mumble stuff about not getting personal and taking a nap, which is probably what he did straight afterwards.

Nov 13: It's the event that body language experts have been looking forward to months - the chance to see Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart posing side by side at the world premiere of the final Twilight film - Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Nov 14: Oh look, there's more video of Kristen being awkward about relationships.

Starting off the chat with a big sarcastic "this is so much fun!" in the interview, Kristen failed to answer a question about dresses before really struggling with this one: 'Taylor Swift writes a lot of break-up songs. Is the guy always to blame for heartbreak?' She spluttered: "Nah, come on now... I'll ask her - maybe she'll know...."

And when the hostess attempted to ask her another split-based question, Kristen let her get as far as 'which break up...' before she shouted "What? What are you doing?!"

Nov 15: We're so excited it's very, very difficult to type right now. Because Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson just arrived at the Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 premiere together. They got out of the same car, together . They walked along the red carpet, together.They exchanged loved up glances, together.

Nov 16: We kind of love her for this. Here's Kristen Stewart leaving last night's swanky Breaking Dawn premiere with boyfriend R-Patz (he'll be the pale one in the suit) wearing... jeans and trainers. It's too early for us to decide whether we find this:

a. Intensely irritating in a 'OK WE GET IT, YOU'RE TOO COOL FOR A FROCK' way.

b. Quite cool, in a 'yeah you probably are too cool for a frock' way.

Nov 20: It looks like Kristen Stewart is really lucky. She probably saw a penny on the ground and picked it up or something. Because it looks like the Twilight actress is going to be returning to the scene of Snow White and the Huntsman where she secretly hooked up with director Rupert Sanders. And thankfully for the other cast members (and Kristen's relationship with RPatz), Rupert isn't going to be coming back to the project after all.

"The script has already been written and production will begin late next year," a source says "However, Rupert Sanders definitely won't be a part of the project. Rupert didn't want to be a part of it to begin with because he is desperately still trying to save his marriage. The search is still on for a new director."

Nov 21: "I want my child to have Rob's eyes": Is there something Kristen Stewart isn't telling us? She leads into the babytalk by bringing up famed Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan - who was once rumoured to be in talks to star opposite Kristen in a Bollywood film a few years ago, but which never actually took off the ground.

"If someone offers me a good script, I would love to work in a Bollywood film. I would love to work with Hrithik Roshan. He is such a wonderful actor and so good-looking. In fact, if I have a boy, I would want him to look like Hrithik Roshan, but with Rob's eyes," she said.

Nov 26: After spending the last couple of weeks running around Europe talking about Vampire sex scenes, Kristen and Rob were heading back to New York to chill out over Thanksgiving.

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Just when everyone thought it was going so well, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have reportedly 'split up' for the second time. They saved their relationship after Kristen made a shock confession that she cheated on her long-term boyfriend Rob. The 22-year-old was pictured kissing married film director and father-of-two Rupert Sanders and was forced to release a public apology.

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Robert Pattinson had an on-off relationship from 2008-2013 with his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart. Whilst together, Pattinson and Stewart's relationship faced public scrutiny as many details about their personal life were speculated and rumours were spread.

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This era of his career is infamous for his backhanded compliments at his character in Twilight and the series themselves. In this compilation of clips from interviews, Pattinson reveals that his true thoughts on the franchise are negative. The video shows the humorous part of Pattinson's image as he casually mocks the franchise that made his career take off.

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Pattinson's uncomfortability with fame is most noticeable from his interviews in the 2011 era of his career. They show Pattinson's uneasiness with media at the time. However, the more random his stories became, the more he was adored. Fans praised him for being real, showing the shy and amateur part of his star image.

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A week later, at a press event for Water for Elephants, Pattinson admits to making the whole story up. Clarifying this by saying he was so nervous on TV and felt like he had nothing interesting to say, he demonstrates a real and immature part of his image.

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In this interview for Water for Elephants, Pattinson blatantly lied on national morning news, saying that he saw a clown die when he first went to the circus. In the interview, Pattinson comes across as odd and a bit sociopathic.

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Pattinson's relatable image has been used in discussions of certain health conditions. After opening up about his own sufferings with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, it is referenced as a way for other sufferers to feel that it is something that is accepted and shouldn't be shamed. By relating Pattinson to genuine issues in this way, his image is made more sincere.

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It is a treatable condition suffered by at least 2% of the population, both male and female, that devastates the lives of those who have it and can lead to prolonged depression and even suicide. Now a fledgling charity, the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation, hopes to raise awareness of the obsessive anxiety condition that leaves people convinced there is something flawed or "ugly" about their looks.

The foundation's first conference, on 30 May in London, is aimed at health professionals, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) sufferers and their carers, and is being promoted by a two-minute film, You Are Not Alone, directed by Steve Caplin, which tackles one of the greatest issues surrounding BDD: the idea that the person with it is isolated and cannot fit in.

"One of the biggest problems is that this is an under-researched disorder which is not fully understood by either professionals or laymen," says clinical psychologist Dr Annemarie O'Connor, director of themindworks, a London-based psychology practice, who will be running a workshop at the conference. "This is not simply a case of feeling low or having to change your clothes a couple of times before you go out. It's an obsessive anxiety disorder which can lead to huge levels of distress."

That distress in turn can lead to prolonged bouts of depression and often suicide. "There's such a high level of hopelessness and a real conviction among sufferers that they are ugly to look at or flawed," explains O'Connor.

"Many sufferers turn to cosmetic intervention, but when that doesn't change how they feel or how they see themselves. They become utterly convinced that a better way doesn't exist, and this makes suicide a real feature of the disorder."

Robert Pattinson, who was catapulted to fame after getting the role of vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films, told Australia's Sunday Style magazine that he suffers from anxiety and BDD issues, which can become crippling before a red-carpet event.

"I get a ton of anxiety, right up until the second I get out of the car to the event, when suddenly it completely dissipates," said Pattinson. "But up until that moment I'm a nutcase. Body dysmorphia, overall tremendous anxiety. I suppose it's because of these tremendous insecurities that I never found a way to become egotistical. I don't have a six-pack and I hate going to the gym. I've been like that my whole life. I never want to take my shirt off."

Scarlett Bagwell's 19-year-old daughter, Alannah, first began exhibiting signs of BDD at the age of 14. "I noticed that she had lost a lot of weight fast and at first I thought it was anorexia, but then other things began to happen - she would refuse to come out with us, didn't want to leave her room ... I still thought it might be teenage angst, but then one day she dropped out of school, despite having always loved it.

"There was so much turmoil in her head - she couldn't get on the bus, I'd drive her to school but she wouldn't go in. She really wanted to, but she couldn't physically get out of the car. She's a beautiful girl, but she was convinced there was so much wrong with her - she'd insist that her nose was too big and deformed, that she had tiny, piggy eyes and funny hair."

As Alannah's condition worsened, including bouts of self-harm and suicide attempts, so her family struggled to get a diagnosis. "I had to fight the system to get the proper treatment for her," says her mother. "Just getting a diagnosis was so hard and meanwhile Alannah went from being very independent to being a baby again. At times I even had to force her to wash and I would wash her hair for her. Everything was a struggle. I felt I was failing my daughter."

The hard-won key to her recovery was a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) specifically tailored for BDD sufferers and anti-depression medication.

Alannah is now sitting her A/S exams at a local college and intends to go to university. Her mother hopes that the establishment of a regular conference will lead to further understanding, help and support for those with BDD. "I think that because everybody has slight issues with their appearance - they don't like their hair, or they think a particular dress makes them look bad - they can't understand the struggle that actual body dysmorphics go through," she says. "It stops you functioning. People with body dysmorphia are very isolated; they often can't bring themselves to go out, no matter how much they want to, they don't want to be seen.

"We were lucky that Alannah has had help and the support of her family, but I wonder how many people struggle without that support because they are diagnosed later, undiagnosed or misdiagnosed," she said.
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Body dysmorphic disorder: charity video reveals the image anxieties that can push people to the edge

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It is a treatable condition suffered by at least 2% of the population, both male and female, that devastates the lives of those who have it and can lead to prolonged depression and even suicide.

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Following his road to mega stardom after the five Twilight films, Pattinson chose a path less followed in a Hollywood actor's career. He turned his back on blockbuster films in favour of smaller productions. Due to his success and recognition as a high-profile actor, Pattinson had the freedom to pick more challenging roles in independent and sometimes peculiar projects. This route elevated his reputation, and distanced him from the criticism he received as punishment for the Twilight series.

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Robert Pattinson has opened up about the anxiety that he suffers with since becoming a high-profile celebrity. In his interview with The Daily Telegraph he discloses personal issues detailing his mental state, including needing therapy. This creates an honest and authentic image of Pattinson.

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Robert Pattinson has claimed that fame can inevitably lead to mental health issues, saying that he spends a lot of time "constantly worried".

The actor told The Daily Telegraph that shooting to fame as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and Edward Cullen in Twilight caused a lot of concern for his family at the time.

"I just didn't really change. And it was fun. For me," he said. "I had good agents and stuff and I've had really good friends since the beginning.

"So I think when it gets dangerous for people is when you have no friends and you think, 'Oh, if I get strangers to love me then it will fill that hole'.

"And then when it doesn't fill the hole then you go 10 times crazier."

When asked if he thinks fame comes with mental health issues, he said "Definitely", adding: "Pretty much every person I know who's got famous is completely nuts.

"It's just isolation and also the repetitiveness of your interactions with people... It's just weird."

Pattinson, whose latest film Good Time is released in the UK on November 17, added that when he told his parents he was going to have therapy, they were "literally horrified".

"I was like, 'Why is that a bad thing?'" he said. "There's just this weird stigma. It's so strange... But I think it's a sort of throwback attitude."

Pattinson said that he has "got a lot out of" therapy, adding: "I don't know how you're supposed to do... life [without it]."

The actor also spoke about his career choices since finishing work on the Twilight franchise, explaining why he has never gone for a role in a comic book movie.

"It's because I can't get a six-pack, I've tried for years," he joked. "No, I think it's scary to be sort of synonymous with one part... I've never even auditioned for them."

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Robert Pattinson has claimed that fame can inevitably lead to mental health issues, saying that he spends a lot of time "constantly worried". The actor told The Daily Telegraph that shooting to fame as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and Edward Cullen in Twilight caused a lot of concern for his family at the time.

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With most celebrities in the public eye, with success came struggles. Pattinson has been quite open about the battles he faced when he skyrocketed to fame. This openness has created a relatable and approachable part of Pattinson's image. Those who engage with Pattinson's issues feel empathy towards him.

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The London Evening Standard named Pattinson one of London's most influential people in The Power 1000 in 2013.

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In retrospect, Les Mis looks like a no-brainer, but it wouldn't exist without the determination of the Working Title duo. Their films have dominated British screens this summer, with The World's End, the Richard Curtis romcom About Time and Formula One movie Rush.

Helena Bonham Carter
It's been a quiet year for the Goth king and queen of north London. She put in a memorable appearance in Les Mis, played Liz Taylor in a BBC4 TV drama and takes a smallish role in The Lone Ranger, while he's been busy on a biopic about painter Margaret Keane. But London is, as ever, film-friendlier for their presence.

Ben Wheatley
NEW ENTRY
With a knack for making news, Wheatley has graduated from Down Terrace (very low-budget), Kill List (less low) and arthouse-comedy-horror Sightseers (almost normal). Just recently his latest, A Field in England, went out on TV, in cinemas, on DVD and via download, all on the same day - and did very well, too.

Sienna Miller
Actress
Beautiful, willowy star of new Hollywood drama Foxcatcher but she is being more picky now she's a thirtysomething mother, declaring she won't take a role "unless it's something spectacular". Wowed the critics on the London stage in Flare Path and with TV film The Girl, so Miller's more discerning approach is paying off.

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Idris ElbaActorNEW ENTRYIt may have taken US TV to launch the Canning Town-born actor over here, but Elba has been seizing the day ever since, with British TV (Luther has become a bona fide cult), Hollywood blockbusters (Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Thor) and, to cap it all, the title role in the biopic Mandela, which is due out in January.

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Appears 15th on the Hollywood Top 40 list, with earnings of $27.5 million in 2010.

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$15 million: Fee for starring in upcoming untitled Sherlock Holmes sequel

$12 million: Iron Man 2 (back-end, based on worldwide gross of $627 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)

$3.5 million: Sherlock Holmes (back-end, based on worldwide gross of $523 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)

$1 million: Older film revenue

9. Taylor LautnerACTOR (WME)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$33.5 million (2009 rank: -)

$12.5 million: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1 (fee for co-starring in upcoming penultimate Twilight film)

$12.5 million: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 (fee for co-starring in upcoming final Twilight film)

$7.5 million: Abduction (fee for starring in upcoming John Singleton thriller)

$1 million: Older film revenue, mostly from Twilight franchise

8. Todd PhillipsWRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER (CAA)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$34 MILLION (2009 rank: 5)

$15 million: The Hangover Part II (fee for writing, producing, and directing)

$13 million: The Hangover (back-end for producing and directing; excludes $39 million earned in 2009)

$3 million: Due Date (back-end for producing and directing, based on worldwide gross of $200 million, as of December 31, 2010)

$2 million: Older film revenue

$1 million: Project X (fee for producing upcoming low-budget comedy)

7. Adam SandlerACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER (WME)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$50 MILLION (2009 rank: 12)

$25 million: Just Go with It (fee for producing and starring in upcoming comedy opposite Jennifer Aniston)

$20 million: Jack and Jill (fee for producing and starring in upcoming comedy with Katie Holmes and Al Pacino)

$3 million: Grown Up s (back-end for starring and writing, based on worldwide gross of $271 million, plus share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)

$2 million: Older film revenue

6. Tim BurtonDIRECTOR (William Morris Endeavor)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$53 MILLION (2009 rank: -)

$50 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for directing, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)

$3 million: Older film revenue

5. Leonardo DiCaprioACTOR (Special Artists Agency)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$62 MILLION (2009 rank: -)

$59 million: Inception (back-end for starring in somewhat convoluted Christopher Nolan film)

$3 million: Back-end for starring in somewhat convoluted Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, older film revenue

4. Christopher NolanWRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER (CAA)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$71.5 MILLION (2009 rank: -)

$69 million: Inception (back-end for writing, producing, and directing, based on worldwide gross of $823 million, and share of DVD and pay-TV revenue)

$2.5 million: Older film revenue

3. Steven SpielbergDIRECTOR, PRODUCER (CAA)
ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:
$80 MILLION (2009 rank: 2)

$50 million: Universal-theme-park royalties and consulting fees

$20 million: War Horse (fee for directing and producing upcoming World War I drama)

$10 million: Older film revenue

2. Johnny DeppACTOR (United Talent Agency)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS: $100 MILLION (2009 rank: 21)

$40 million: Alice in Wonderland (back-end for starring in Tim Burton film, based on worldwide gross of $1.02 billion)

$35 million: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (up-front money for starring in next installment of Jerry Bruckheimer's waterlogged but ludicrously profitable franchise)

$20 million: The Tourist (fee for co-starring in one of the year's bigger flops alongside Angelina Jolie)

$5 million: Older film revenue

1. James CameronWRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER (Creative Artists Agency)

ESTIMATED 2010 EARNINGS:$257 MILLION (2009 rank: 4)

$248 million: Avatar (back-end for writing, producing, and directing, based on 2010 worldwide box-office gross of $1.95 billion, and share of DVD and pay-television revenue; excludes $50 million earned in 2009)

$5 million: Avatar (share of toy licensing, other revenue)

$4 million: Older film revenue (e.g., back-end and royalties from earlier projects, other payments)

correction: An earlier version of this article misstated Reese Witherspoon's talent agency as WME. She is represented by CAA.

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Appears in Forbes' list of the most powerful people in entertainment, coming before Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler and George Clooney.

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Oprah Winfrey tops our annual ranking of the most powerful people in entertainment.

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Appears 2nd on The Sunday Times Rich List of UK actors with earnings of £45 million in 2013.

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Who beats Robert Pattinson to be crowned the richest UK celeb under 30? And which British pop star is seriously rolling in the dosh? We count down the richest pop stars, actors & models from The Sunday Times Rich List 2013.

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In 2020, Robert Pattinson's net worth is estimated at $100 million, with a large proportion of this success coming from the Twilight franchise. His ever-growing financial success is highlighted in various magazines and media. This concentration on his professional life creates a serious, hard-working and strong part of Pattinson's image, promoting him as a powerhouse actor.

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Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon both play parts in Vanity Fair (2004) and Water for Elephants (2011). A comparison of the two demonstrates how Pattinson's image has changed over time. In Vanity Fair, Pattinson plays Witherspoon's son; however, in Water for Elephants they play forbidden lovers. As Pattinson has grown older his roles have also matured. Contrasting to his image of an innocent boy in Vanity Fair, Pattinson's image changes to one that is more sophisticated and heroic in Water for Elephants.

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During the 'Twilight Years', Pattinson also played other roles in romance dramas such as Remember Me (2010), Water for Elephants (2011) and Bel Ami (2012). With a strong feel of feminine romanticism, each film faced criticism. Critics slammed Pattinson's performances especially, suggesting that he was only capable of playing parts in female-targeted genres. Pattinson's characters don’t tap into his dark edge which has later become his better quality. These are all roles which Pattinson has seemingly stayed away from in recent years, possibly in an attempt to rebrand himself and move away from his sweetheart image.

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Robert Pattinson is a philanthropist and has involved himself with many charitable organisations and causes. In 2010, he appeared in the 'Hope for Haiti' telethon, using his newfound fame from Twilight to alleviate the Haiti earthquake. Participating in charity events such as this show that Pattinson has a genuine care and concern for those vulnerable in the world, contributing to his relatable and humanitarian image. It suggests that he wants to actively use his star image and celebrity status for the greater good.

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In 2009 Robert Pattinson was voted for 271,000 times for Vanity Fair's 'Most Handsome Man in the World.' This demonstrates how many recognise Pattinson for his physical image. The photographs used create a masculine image for Pattinson as he holds Kristen Stewart in the air.

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Photograph by Peggy Sirota; outtake from the December 2008 issue (with Kristen Stewart).So much for competition. Two weeks ago, VF.com asked readers to vote for the Most Handsome Man in the World. Just like last time, when Angelina Jolie trounced the competition in our Most Beautiful Woman in the World poll, we have a hands-down winner: Robert Pattinson. The Twilight star took 51 percent of the more than 271,000 votes cast. Of the 18 men on the list, Nacho Figueras came in second with 15 percent, followed by Brad Pitt with 12 percent.

So, World, what exactly is it about Robert Pattinson that made you vote over 271,000 times?

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Photograph by Peggy Sirota; outtake from the December 2008 issue (with Kristen Stewart).So much for competition. Two weeks ago, VF.com asked readers to vote for the Most Handsome Man in the World. Just like last time, when Angelina Jolie trounced the competition in our Most Beautiful Woman in the World poll, we have a hands-down winner: Robert Pattinson.

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Edward Cullen plays a protective role to his female lover, Bella Swan. Here Pattinson is shown embodying a masculine role, as Edward seeks to protect Bella throughout all films. Pattinson's character is represented as a dominant, defensive and possessive force, adding to Pattinson's macho image.

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Awarded with the 'Hottest Hottie' Award. Highlights popularity amongst young people, especially teenage girls. The award suggests that Pattinson's physical good looks are an achievement and reiterate his dreamboat image.

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A documentary that reveals how young teenagers have become obsessed with Robert Pattinson and explores his escalating fame since his first appearance in the Twilight series. The film, directed by Irene Antoniades, features British tabloid editors and 'superfans.' The film's trailer constantly mentions Pattinson's bewitching good looks and features clips of his captivated fans, highlighting his level of success as a teen star and extreme heartthrob status.

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Robert Pattinson captured the hearts of many adoring fans following Twilight (2008) and a passionate fan base was established. He was praised for his good looks which were admired by thousands of young girls globally. Pattinson achieved heartthrob status as the role of Edward Cullen helped in creating a star image that was alluring and mysterious.

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The career move that made Robert Pattinson a Hollywood teen idol was playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight series. A series that has been continuously mocked by critics, Twilight is based on books written by Stephanie Meyer and consisted of five movies. Due to the film's success amongst younger and teen viewers, Pattinson's fame skyrocketed. Playing the lead male - an enigmatic and enticing vampire - the role itself made Robert Pattinson seem desirable. Bella Swan, the lead female character played by Kristen Stewart, is drawn to Pattinson's character despite the fact that he is a bloodthirsty monster and consequently they enter into a dangerous romance. Edward Cullen's magnetic nature in the films is characteristic of Pattinson's personal charming image. Although the films do not showcase his best performances, the franchise is credited for putting Pattinson on the blockbuster map.

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Robert Pattinson's roles from 2008 led to him becoming a global teen idol, paving the way for his huge Hollywood success. This period of his career carved the successful and influential part of his star image.

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Even in recent years, Pattinson even goes as far as to credit Harry Potter as the reason he is still acting today, suggesting gratitude and awareness of where his career truly began. This element of sincerity highlights the human side of his star image.

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Since the Harry Potter cast started on the franchise as kids and were working on it for a decade, Robert Pattinson remembers it being very much a school setting. And because he was only there for one film, he didn't quite get to have the same experience as the core cast. He admits that he doesn't really keep in touch with his Goblet of Fire cast mates.

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Robert Pattinson's 'Amazing' Harry Potter Experience Is Why He's Still Acting

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Since the Harry Potter cast started on the franchise as kids and were working on it for a decade, Robert Pattinson remembers it being very much a school setting. And because he was only there for one film, he didn't quite get to have the same experience as the core cast.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

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Robert Pattinson made his first big debut aged 18 playing the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His character was good looking, likeable and charming, all features which have been incorporated even further into Pattinson's star image over his career. Although the role only lasted in one film in the Harry Potter series, it put Pattinson on the radar as a young actor.

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Aged 18, Pattinson was cast in his first movie production, Vanity Fair as Rawdy Crawley, the son of Reese Witherspoon's character. However on the night of the premiere, Pattinson discovered that his scenes had been cut from the cinema release and would only appear on the DVD version. Pattinson's grounded nature is later highlighted through his self-deprecating humour towards being cut when appearing on the Graham Norton Show in 2012.

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Robert Pattinson's career began in local theatre in London, England. He played stage roles such as King Malcolm in professional production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. This was the foundation which led to his next step as a teenage actor.