Robert Pattinson is hot and real in GQ

I always knew vampires had a great sense of humor. Even if they’re only on-screen vampires.

Twilight star Robert Patterson sat down to chat with GQ for their April issue sounding absolutely not-Hollywood, I mean sounding natural, normal-person-like controlled and sincere.

Here are my fave tidbits:

On his new movie, Little Ashes, where he stars as young gay Salvador Dali:

In a lot of ways I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.”

“I thought I’d never get another acting job again. So I was like, ‘Yeah-why not try to do something weird?’ There’s all these gay sex scenes. And y’know, I haven’t even done a sex scene with a girl, in my whole career. And here I am, with Javier [Beltr?n], who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hard-core sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward. And because we’re both straight, what we were doing seemed kind of ridiculous. Trying to do it doggie-style. Trying to have a nervous breakdown while doing it doggie-style. And it wasn’t even a closed set. There were all these Spanish electricians giggling to themselves.”

On his rumored girlfriend:

There’s literally not a single [true] story that could be written about me. I never do anything. There’s this thing about my supposed girlfriend. There’s this one girl who’s consistently mentioned. It’s like, ‘He’s dating this Brazilian model.’ What’s her name – Annelyse. I’ve never met her.”

“I mean-yeah. I don’t see people. I don’t even have people’s phone numbers. I almost don’t want to have a girlfriend, in this environment.

On audition for Twilight:

I took half a Valium and then went into this thing-and all this stuff happened. It was the first time I’ve ever taken Valium. A quarter. A quarter of a Valium. I tried to do it for another audition, and it just completely backfired – I was passing out.”

On gossip:

The only way to establish any kind of mystique is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I’m contractually obligated not to shut up.”

“I just say the first thing that comes into my head out of nervousness. During interviews I’m literally shitting my pants. I don’t want there to be a silence, because I’ll start crying.”

“I literally have nothing to say. So I don’t think, Oh, I wish they’d asked me about my craft instead of my hair.”

On being romantically involved with Camilla Belle [girlfriend of Joe Jonas from The Jonas Brothers]:

That’s the funniest [rumor]. No. I mean, yeah, yeah, I’m friends with Camilla… It’s funny, though, because I met her at her place the other day, and there’s a security gate, and even the security woman-I guess she knows that Camilla lives there, and she was like, ‘Oooh!’ …I mean, Camilla’s the nicest-she’s a saint.”

On career:

I’m not massively concerned about doing lots of acting jobs. If it all just went, right now, I’d be like, ‘All right. I don’t really care.’ That’s probably a stupid thing to say. But I don’t, really. I think it’d be much worse to do a load of stuff that’s really bad. Because then you can’t go into another career. If you’ve made an idiot out of yourself, you’re never going to be taken seriously, as a lawyer or something, if you’re, like, a joke actor. The only thing I want from anything is to not be embarrassed.”

Rob’s Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart once said about him:

He can’t lie. It makes things a little scary for him sometimes. But it’s my favorite thing about him.”

Well, I believe Pattinson, you? I like him being pretty down-to-earth and real. He’s real, but he’s still damn sexy.

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