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Twilight star Robert Pattinson stumbles, sucks blood, stumbles again.

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But Pattinson isn't behaving like a ruined being today. He figures that had he been a fan, he would have had the same reaction to such casting.

"I was embarrassed even going into the audition," he remembers. "You look at the synopsis. Edward is the perfect man. He has an impeccable face and body. Everything about him is amazing."

Could Pattinson live up to that image? Not by a long shot. "It was just so stupid." As for the roasting he received on the Internet: "I was happy when it was a 100-per-cent negative reaction. I was like - thank you." When he was attacked as "a bum" by one irate fan, he said to himself: "Cool! I'm going to be a character actor instead."

Now, of course, there's a been huge sea change. Pattinson has become hot stuff.
By all accounts, he wasn't the most compliant of actors during filming.

There were disagreements over how he should approach his character, some of them triggered by his desire to play Edward like a manic-depressive: as he suggested recently to Entertainment Weekly, this seemed like a perfectly sound approach, given that Pattinson is coping with the "purgatory" of being a vampire. But at the end, he seems to have emerged serenely from both the highs and the lows.

He had no trouble assuming an American accent. "It wasn't very difficult. I grew up watching American movies. All my favourite actors are American. So it was osmosis."

But he had a lot of trouble with the script's physical demands - not just a brutal fight scene with a predatory vampire but something as mundane as a family baseball game played vampire style.
"I'm completely unco-ordinated," he confesses. "I'm terrible at all sports."

In fact he considers them pointless. "Catherine was determined to make me look like a professional baseball player, and literally I couldn't take it seriously."

It seemed that whenever he was involved in stunt work, he suffered an injury.
"My hand-eye co-ordination is bad. But I have a good stunt double. He is a professional free runner. I can do something and get injured and look like crap playing it, or he can do it and make it look really good and no one notices the difference."

After walking into one too many doors, he gave up. "I managed to pick up so many injuries whenever I tried the simplest of stunts." In one scene where he was supposed to pick up Kristen Stewart in his arms, he broke a hamstring - and "that isn't even a stunt."

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