The time has come at last–the April issue of GQ has arrived, and with it, the cover story on Robert Pattinson. Pretty intense, heartfelt interview–

“Everybody came in doing something empty and shallow and thoughtless,” Stewart says. “I know that’s a f-cking great thing to say about all the other actors—but Rob understood that it wasn’t a frivolous role.”

Hardwicke still had to convince Summit Entertainment, the studio bankrolling Twilight, that Pattinson was the guy.

“There was a call from the head of the studio,” Hardwicke says. “ ‘Are you sure you can make this guy handsome?’ ”

They sent him to a trainer, dyed his hair and cut it. Pattinson immersed himself in the lore—the novels and Midnight Sun, Meyer’s unpublished, unfinished retelling of Twilight from Edward’s point of view. (“I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.”) He showed up to shoot the movie with a lot of ideas about how it could be more than a horror-tinged tween romance. How Edward could be less like the turtlenecked Prince Charming from the novels—“If you met a guy like that in real life,” he says, “you’d think he was kind of dorky”—and more like the edgy dude burning himself with cigarettes in the corner at the high school party. Less hottie, more monster. He thought that at the end of the movie, when Edward and Bella slow-dance to Iron & Wine on prom night, they shouldn’t kiss. “I thought that would be interesting,” he says, “for a teen thing.”

Check out the rest in the April Issue of GQ, or in the Online Feature. [thanks to Anna C. and CBA for letting us know!]

See also...

Jackson Rathbone in Nylon Magazine




Twilight Producers Interviewed on Robert Pattinson, Spinoffs




Taylor Lautner New Moon Premiere Interview with Access Hollywood