HE may have been named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine but British heartthrob Robert Pattinson couldn't look more inconspicuous if he tried.Lounging on a plush sofa at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, his white T-shirt features a tiny rip front and centre, his shoelaces are unlaced and his baseball cap is on backwards.
In short, he's disarmingly understated and approachable, immediately offering a cheery hello that quickly reaches his blue-green eyes.
"I can't wait for this film to come out," he says of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. "I feel we've been talking about it for months. Well, I have."
He's the first to admit this movie is different from the previous three, which are also based on the novels by Stephanie Meyer.
Not only does it signal the beginning of the end of this billion-dollar franchise but it also takes the core message of abstinence and gives it a twist; not only do Edward and Bella, played by Kristen Stewart his real life girlfriend, get married, they also (shush, don't tell anyone) have sex, which is quickly followed by the arrival of their first child.
The guitar-playing actor reveals that the harrowing childbirth scenes were tough to watch, given that Bella was writhing in pain and covered in blood. He not only found the on-set experience intense but also had some trouble coming to terms with his place in the movie.
"Kristen really connected to this film she thought it was Bella's journey and it was really important. But when I first read the script, I was so frustrated because what is Edward supposed to do, when he's on the sidelines, worrying," muses the Londoner.
"By the time I was called on to the set, Kristen had gone so far beating herself up that I was terrified and I hadn't been terrified since the first movie. We shot the childbirth scenes as continuous sequence, from when she goes into labour to the birth, so we really had to commit to what we were doing. By then Edward's really beaten down and has to give up his ego. It's only in Part 1 that Edward rebuilds himself again, and I admire him for that."
The 25-year-old star says it was emotionally challenging to act around all the special effects that show Bella's emaciated body giving birth to baby Renesmee.
"Kristen's head was attached to a dummy body which had gore all over it, and she was wearing a torn hospital gown. It looked unbelievably bad. It was more like a Saw movie than a Twilight movie. And the dummy was so realistic I was shocked when I first walked on set to see anyone you know look like that is just horrible."
Hype around the movie has been growing ever since the producers released photographs of the much anticipated Edward/Bella wedding. Pattinson remembers with amusement the day they said their "I do's".
"We had all these paparazzi helicopters above and no one asked me to hide as it was all about the dress," he says. "I was standing in the wide open ... and Kristen was shrouded in secrecy."
He's more than conscious that his legions of fans (aka Twihards) are desperate to see the movie and while even Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, has said she wouldn't want his level of fame, he's level-headed about the attention he gets.
"Luckily, it's not every day you have to deal with loads of people because it's quite tiring," he says. "But people are coming out to say they like you, and you have so many people in the world saying they don't like you, so you have to appreciate (those) on your side."
Pattinson reveals that he's now trying his hand at script-writing but his immediate aim is to try to find interesting roles.
He's recently completed Bel Ami with Uma Thurman and David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, but says, "I'm not interested in doing star vehicles. You don't want it to be, 'Oh the Twilight guy's got a movie coming out'. The directors don't want that either."
Surely he feels more secure now that he has a reputed $55 million and the world at his feet? "Kind of. And then not at all," he says. "I feel like I have to convince more people of my worth now than when I wasn't getting jobs."
That said, he's keen to end the press tour for Breaking Dawn and get back to work. "I've done nine films in four years," he sighs, before adding with a smile: "This is the longest break I've had in that time but ... I need to get back to work."
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