His face adorns the bedroom walls of teenage girls the world over. As brooding romantic vampire Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson has become a huge star and box office winner. It also brought him close to his co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays his human love Bella, and there's constant speculation they are an item.
Today sees the release of the third film in the Twilight saga - Eclipse.
Here, London-born Robert, 24, tells The Ticket how he keeps his feet firmly on the ground.
What's new about Eclipse?
Everything's bigger. The budget is bigger and everyone's more famous now, so that was a very different experience.
You're surrounded by all this insanity. How do you stay normal?
I find periods to escape from it and places to get away to as much as possible. I try and tell myself it's just a job and that all this craziness won't last forever.
Can you walk down the street?
It depends. You just have to deal with it or go completely insane. I still have the same friends. To be honest, I never really went to bars anyway, but beforehand I couldn't get into anything that had a guest list.
Anything that particularly drives you mad?
The only thing really is when you leave your building and there's always someone following you. I like to get out of cities so you're not constantly worried about that.
Others involved in the films say the Twilight cast is like a family. Would you agree?
Well, they're not as close as my family, but I think it's nice to have been all together at the beginning and then go on pretty much the same ride.
You can't really talk to anyone else about the same thing as no one else really understands it. Also, everyone has stayed normal, so you can still relate to everyone on the same level as you could at the beginning.
Do you have any plans for when the Twilight series ends?
I just want to work as much as I am now. I like working all the time because I spent so many years before Twilight just doing two or three months of the year. The rest of the time I'd do nothing, or I'd just have tiny little jobs.
Can you identify with Edward's desire to marry?
That seems odd. The whole vampire thing is about the flesh all the time. It's about base instincts. So getting married is the total opposite. It's the ultimate proof of him not being an out-of-control animal.
Are you very different from the romantic and mysterious Edward?
I don't know. The main thing is that he's very extreme in his way of thinking and I'm not really like that. I don't think in such absolutes, you know, "If I can't be with this girlfriend, I'm going to kill myself." I guess that's quite a teenage thing. I think that is the main difference between us.
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