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London born Robert Pattinson will soon be a very recognizable face (if he isn’t already) once the movie version of Stephanie Meyer’s best selling novel, Twilight, hits the theaters in the winter. Fans of Meyer’s work are already looking forward to this movie adaptation, most especially with Pattinson in the lead. He is, apparently, touted as the next Judd Law. Movie goers will remember him as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film.

Only 21 years old, Pattinson is already an accomplished actor, starting off amateur theater and even working behind the scenes.

In Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, where the actor plays the role of Edward Cullen the hundred years old teenage looking vampire, Pattinson is said to be very much involved in writing the music score for the movie, specifically the song Bella’s Lullaby. Catherine Hardwicke, the film’s director, had asked Pattinson to come up with the original song.

Says Pattinson in an interview with MTV: “I was doing music before I started acting, so I still have bits and pieces, and I’ve been playing in Portland [during the shoot]. I’ve been trying to write an album for years and years.”

Entertainment Weekly has a short feature on Twilight, which will run in theaters December 12. The magazine describes the story as “more Buffy than Nosferatu”.

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As for the character of Edward, Meyer describes him as ”devastatingly inhumanly beautiful.” Not surprisingly, he has become a heartthrob to millions. ”Everybody has such an idealized vision of Edward,” Hardwicke says. ”They were rabid [about who I was going to cast]. Like, old ladies saying, ‘You better get it right.”’ She almost didn’t. Hardwicke had seen a picture of Robert Pattinson, a 22-year-old Brit best known as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but had been underwhelmed. So Pattinson flew to meet with Hardwicke at her home in Venice, Calif. His audition consisted of a love scene with Stewart on Hardwicke’s bed. ”It was electric,” Hardwicke says. ”The room shorted out, the sky opened up, and I was like, ‘This is going to be good.”’

Fans weren’t so sure at first, and some of the blogs were brutal. ”I stopped reading after I saw the signatures saying ‘Please, anyone else,”’ Pattinson says, laughing. To prepare for the role, the actor did more than just stay out of the sun. He wrote journal entries as Edward and shut himself off from his friends and family. ”I wanted to feel his isolation,” he says. Still, Pattinson didn’t transform into Edward in all ways. ”I was supposed to get a six-pack,” he says. ”But it didn’t really work out.”