11/16/2008

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Robert Pattinson says his new celebrity status is "strange."

Amy Chandler

Robert Pattinson, the 22-year-old star of the first "Twilight" movie, is still figuring out how to adjust to his newfangled fame. "It's strange. It's definitely changed things," the young actor said in an interview printed in the *New York Daily News* this Sunday. "I still don't understand why people love the character to this obsessive degree, the chivalrousness and opening doors and stuff. Don't understand why a teenage girl would care."  
  
Pattinson also divulged that he was not particularly ecstatic about the script upon the first reading. "It was ridiculous, the descriptions of the character from page 1- 'He comes in, achingly beautiful.' It was an embarrassment to even go to the audition." However, it is a good thing the actor did, because an attempted career at romantic comedies was not heading in the right direction. Apparently, the burgeoning star's comedic skills were not quite up to par. "Whenever I tried to be funny in auditions, I'd always get, 'He's way too scary. This is supposed to be a funny part and he was terrifying,'" he recalled.  
  
This is not Pattinson's first role in a fantasy movie. In 2005, he appeared in *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* as Cedric Diggory, which led to him being named "British Star of Tomorrow" by Times Online. Starring in *Twilight*, which opens Friday November 21, will certainly solidify this status.