However, a good mushy rom-com comes like a whiff of fresh air for her and helps her rejuvenate her mind and soul. She gushes, “I need them (rom-coms) at the end of a crap day — a nice happy ending and a fairytale. On the other hand I like movies that are very grounded in reality but still maintain their comedy.”

Looks like, Twilight must be high on Barrymore’s list. After all, all women all over the globe are feeling the sensation darted by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s romance as vampire Edward and human Bella.

Besides, Drew doesn’t like films of genre where the girl is dying to get wedded. Drew quips, “I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I feel like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day. It just terrifies me — I don’t relate to that at all. I’m not at that place in my life where I want to play a character who says, ‘I just have to get married.’ “

Tuesday, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart returned after a trip to Montreal together where Stewart is filming her latest film, On the Road. The couple won’t state that they are dating, but have been seen together repeatedly. Wednesday, photos of the couple together have created an internet buzz.

Pattinson, 24, and Stewart, 20, wore sun glasses and were dressed very casually as they walked through the airport. Pattinson carried a guitar case on his back.

Pattinson and Stewart play Edward and Bella – the main characters in the Twilight series of movies and have captured the attention of millions of Twilight fans. Edward wasn’t in most of New Moon, but Jacob, a friend of Bella temporarily fights for her affections. In Eclipse, the fight for Bella continues. The Eclipse movie was one of the biggest movie releases of the year.

KRISTEN Stewart is using Taylor Lautner to make Robert Pattinson jealous — it has been claimed.

According to American tabloid the National Enquirer, Stewart is getting sick of Pattinson’s excuses and boozy behavior so is trying to teach the hunky Brit a lesson.

“Kristen is sick of Rob’s boozing, and she hates that he insists on keeping their love affair under wraps,” dished one loose-lipped insider.

“So she decided to make him jealous by having a fling with Taylor.

“Kristen hopes that when Rob sees that she’s hot ‘n heavy with Taylor, he’ll be jealous and beg for a second chance.”

Reports earlier this week claimed Rob has told pals his love affair with Kristen is “really, really over!”

“Rob finally made the decision to make a clean break, and he’s acting really happy – like a great load’s been lifted off his shoulders!” dished one loose-lipped insider.

“It wasn’t easy, but he’s in a much better place now that he’s out of his on-again-off-again emotional entanglement.

“Rob’s still friendly with Kristen, but now that the romance is over, he’s like a new person!”

The source said Pattinson’s Water for Elephants costar Reese Witherspoon gave him a shoulder and “advised Rob to have fun while he’s young, and enjoy being a carefree bachelor while he can. So Rob gathered his courage and told Kristen he felt they’d both be better off as just friends.

“Kristen played it cool, acting like the breakup was no big deal, but it hit her harder than she’s letting on.

“She’s not freaking out because she still has hopes of reconnecting with Rob, although he’s standing his ground. He doesn’t want to fall back into old habits. He’s moving on!

“The Twilight producers, aware of the relationship change, asked their stars to keep up appearances and be seen out publicly for the movie’s sake.”


’It’s crazy,’ admits Rob, 24. ‘Young girls come up and say they’re going to do this or that if you don’t turn up at their school.’ When R-Pattz signed up for Twilight, he had no idea how famous the vampire movies would make him worldwide.

‘I still don’t really understand what’s going on now,’ he says. ‘Like yesterday, I was having lunch down the road, we were in this place for a couple of hours and suddenly there were like 400 people outside on the street.’It was just so nuts and it’s like that all the time now.’

Source: Nowmagazine

Robert Pattinson has revealed he had to train to run like a true action hero for new Twilight movie Eclipse.

The 24-year-old Hollywood heartthrob confessed to Reveal magazine his run in the first two Twilight films as brooding vampire Edward Cullen had been a bit weak, so he hit the treadmill.

Robert laughed: « I had to learn how to run properly. In the last two films, I ran in a limp/skip. I had to run more solidly this time so I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill. It was like one of those things that mice run around in. »

Robert also had to brush up on his fighting skills for a scene with new co-star Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays villain Victoria.

The actor admits he used a body double for the most dramatic parts, but movie bosses were still impressed with his action moves.

Robert revealed: « Weirdly, one of the producers told me: ‘Wow, you look so enthusiastic in that fight scene. Much more than in any other one in the series’. It’s always hard to do stuff with Bryce because she’s the gentlest person and is always laughing. And she’s afraid of hurting me! »

The 24-year-old British actor, who shot to fame as Edward Cullen in the hit vampire film saga, accrued an estimated $17m (£11m) in the last 12 months alone.

Pattinson was ranked 50th on the Celebrity 100 Power List, while his US girlfriend and co-star Kristen Stewart is at 66 with $12m (£7.95m).

Lady Gaga is the highest newcomer in the Forbes list, which is based on earnings and global exposure, and overshot stars like Madonna (number 10) and U2 (seven) to claim fourth place. She earned $62m (£41m) in the last year, partly thanks to her 106-date world tour.

Oprah Winfrey reclaims the top spot as the most powerful celebrity with $315m (£208m) after last year’s number one, Angelina Jolie, dropped to 18th position.

Despite turmoil in his personal life and his professional setbacks, Tiger Woods is at number five with $105m (£69m) accrued during the past year.

Avatar director James Cameron returns to the list – this time in third place – for the first time since 1999, earning $210m (£139m).

Simon Cowell is the highest British earner, jumping 14 places to number 11 with $80m (£53m), following his last season as a judge on American Idol.

Other British celebrities on the list include Daniel Radcliffe at 82 with $25m (£16.5m), Kate Moss at 91 with $9m (£5.95m), and David Beckham at 36 with $44m (£29.1m). All earnings are from June 2009 to June 2010.

Despite stock market swings and a faltering global economy, the earnings power of the Celebrity 100 remains resilient. The top 100 earned collectively $4.7bn (£3.11bn) during the past year, up from $4.1bn (£2.7bn) the previous year.

The Forbes Celebrity Power ranking is a measurement of entertainment-related earnings over the past 12 months as well as visibility in print, TV, radio and online.

The full list will be published on forbes.com.

The Forbes Celebrity 100 Power List top 10
1. Oprah Winfrey – $315m (£208m)
2. Beyonce Knowles – $87m (£57m)
3. James Cameron – $210m (£139m)
4. Lady Gaga – $62m (£41m)
5. Tiger Woods – $105m (£69m)
6. Britney Spears – $64m (£42m)
7. U2 – $130m (£86m)
8. Sandra Bullock – $56m (£37m)
9. Johnny Depp – $75m (£49m)
10. Madonna – $58m (£38m)

BRITISH actor Robert Pattinson is to play US rock legend Kurt Cobain in a Hollywood biopic.

The Twilight star is said to have always thought of himself as a musician rather than an actor so securing a part playing the Nirvana lead singer, who shot himself in 1994, is ideal for him, The Sun reports.

Pattinson, 23, has been in regular contact with Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, who has been handed a key role in the production by bosses at Universal Pictures.

The singer wanted Pattinson as Cobain and Scarlett Johansson, 25, to portray her.

A source said: « This is a big money deal for Courtney.
« She has agreed to the film on condition that she gets to decide the main aspects of the project including director, casting, screenplay and music.

« Robert has been calling and emailing her non-stop. She has been a bit wound up by his manners, but he is her number one choice to play Kurt.

« She is adamant Scarlett will play her. Scarlett is friendly with Frances Bean, her daughter with Kurt. »

Love, 45, has been in touch with director David Fincher about the project, which has the working title All Apologies.

He was behind Fight Club, Se7en and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

It’s not the first time a studio have tried to make a film about Nirvana, who had hits with Come As You Are and Smells Like Teen Spirit.

A few years ago Sony Pictures were disapproved by Love when they floated the idea of High School Musical actor Zac Efron, 22, as Cobain, while Frances Bean, 17, would play her mum.

The phenomenally successful teen vampire franchise, Twilight, has sunk its teeth into a hungry fan base and transformed Pattinson from a bumbling Harry Potter supporting cast-member into one of the most desirable men on the planet (or ‘the Most Handsome Man in the World’, as he was dubbed by Vanity Fair).

It’s earned him millions, made British-born Pattinson the most sought-after young actor in Hollywood, and furnished him with a superstar girlfriend, his co-star in the vampire films, Kristen Stewart.

But the success of the first two instalments in the franchise – Twilight, which came out in 2008, and New Moon, which was released last November – has engendered its own set of problems, not least on the set of his first post-Twilight movie, Remember Me.

‘Honestly,’ begins Pattinson when we meet up in a hotel in London, ’shooting Remember Me was really difficult. The Twilight fans were great – they’d come, watch us shoot and would be quiet when they were asked – but the paparazzi, what a bunch of f—ing animals.’

Pattinson explains that the photographers made so much noise – shouting out, trying to ‘get a rise’ – that the cast’s dialogue was ruined, and had to be completely re-recorded.

Then one punched the second assistant-director in the face. ‘That was a bit much,’ Pattinson says.

This is the fifth time I’ve met Pattinson, and each time he’s been bashful, humble and fun to be around – almost too fun. So at pains is he to be personable and rip-roaring company – the polar opposite of Twilight’s dour, broody 100-year-old vampire, Edward Cullen – that his efforts often horrify those around him.

Shortly after landing the part, he admitted that he’d taken Valium in order to get through the Twilight audition. Last year, apropos of nothing, he whispered in my ear: ‘Honestly, I just went for a pee and suddenly about 20 people wanted to shake my hand straight away. I was like, “Hah, hah, I haven’t even washed my hands!”’

His publicist was mortified. It’s easy to imagine a similar reaction to a recent US magazine interview in which he joked that he was ‘allergic to vagina’.

Today, he is sporting a raggedy beard, which he’ll wear during his next non-Twilight movie, Bel Ami, a fan base-testing adaptation of the second novel by 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant.

‘It’s awesome,’ Pattinson laughs. ‘Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristen Scott Thomas, and I sleep with all of them!’

Just a few years ago, Pattinson was yet another actor-cum-model-cum-musician with a few solid, if unexceptional, roles to his name – one of which, in Mira Nair’s 2004 version of Vanity Fair, actually ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Today, at just 23, he sits atop a film franchise that is expected to make in excess of £1.3 billion by the time it ends. He has already filmed the third in the series, Eclipse, and will shoot the fourth and final chapter, Breaking Dawn, at the end of the year.

The hysteria he causes wherever he goes is often compared with that which followed Titanic-era Leonardo DiCaprio, but, if anything, it’s even more frenzied.

During filming and at premieres he needs a team of 25 bodyguards to protect him from the braying mob. When they do manage to get to him, fans regularly present him with vials of their own blood, or invite him to nibble their necks.

There are currently six unauthorised ‘R-Pattz’ biographies in publication, and there will probably be a couple more by the time you read this. Recently, Pattinson’s life story was retold in a documentary, Robsessed, featuring interviews with friends, former teachers and ’super-fans’. Robsessed 2 is already in the works.

And the Robert Pattinson fever is not being fed by teenage girls alone; it’s their mothers, too. Middle-aged, middle-class fans have even formed their own splinter group of ‘Twilight Moms’, who claim the books and films have helped improve their sex lives and whose motivation is summed up by member Nora Kindley, speaking in New York magazine: ‘When I look at Robert, I feel like I am 8, 14 and 31, my actual age, all at the same time.’

Stephenie Meyer – herself a middle-class, middle-aged mother – imagined Edward Cullen as ‘the most beautiful creature who has ever been born’, an impeccably mannered, almost impossible-to-realise cross between Adonis and a Jane Austen heart-throb. Prior to auditioning for the role, it’s safe to say that Pattinson did not fit this description.

His most high-profile part had been the doomed Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His agent encouraged him to find similar high-profile roles, but Pattinson opted for a part on stage, taking the lead in a Royal Court production of The Woman Before. The man he played was supposed to be troubled, so Pattinson decided he would ‘do something really weird’.

But his over-acting didn’t go down well and he was fired shortly before opening night.

He then went ‘nuts’ and considered giving up acting altogether. Apart from roles in How to Be, a BBC drama called The Haunted Airman and Little Ashes (in which he played Salvador Dali during a stormy affair with another man), by the time he auditioned to play Edward Cullen, in 2007, he’d been trying to break into music and ‘getting drunk for a year’.

But the producers opted to ignore his beer paunch and the part was his.

‘The fans were asking for people like Leonardo DiCaprio,’ he recalls. ‘And when you consider how gorgeous my character is in the books, I was put off. I thought no way could anybody play this guy.’

When Pattinson’s casting was announced, the books’ 17 million-odd fans duly erupted with such hatred you’d think the film-makers had picked Ronnie Corbett.

Pattinson’s mother kept calling to tell her son that he was being called ‘too old’ or ‘too ugly’ all over the internet.

Pattinson has changed little since his Harry Potter days and is living proof, perhaps, that good things come to those who don’t desire too much. An aw-shucks modesty has become part of Pattinson’s shtick. He’s positively embarrassed by his looks, or at least affects to be.

‘I have been lucky, of course,’ he says. ‘Like, last year, if I went out, I’d have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I’m really sexy.

‘ Basically, anyone who wants to be seen as attractive should just get Stephenie Meyer to say: “This guy is attractive.” Then everybody believes it.’

Pattinson grew up in the bucolic London suburb of Barnes. His mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency, while his father, Richard, is a vintage-car dealer.

He is the youngest of three children; Elizabeth, a musician, is 26, and Victoria, who works in advertising, is 31. He attended Tower House prep school and then the Harrodian School.

‘I never really did much acting back then,’ he says. ‘But one day my dad and I were in a restaurant and he saw this bunch of pretty girls and he asked them where they had been. They said that they went to this drama club, so he said we’d better go down to this drama club, too.’

A part in Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, soon followed, as did an agent. Up until that point Pattinson, like his sister Lizzy, had harboured musical ambitions.

‘I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all dishevelled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what’s happened to me with Twilight isn’t really what I’d planned.’

He’s a gifted piano and guitar player, and is so obsessed by Van Morrison that he dreams of playing him in a biopic. Right now he’s composing music for a film he’s not in, whose name he can’t reveal because ‘I might not have time to finish it.’

Despite – or perhaps because of – the £12 million he’s so far made from Twilight, Pattinson seems blissfully unconcerned with how his career will pan out. He lives in detritus-strewn hotel rooms, stays with his parents when in London and claims to have absolutely no material needs beyond his ‘crappy car’ (a 1989 BMW convertible).

That said, he is keen not to become the next Orlando Bloom, an actor who has struggled outside of a big franchise that requires him to do little more than look sexy.

‘Sure, I hope that Remember Me shows I can do more,’ he says, ‘although I see all these things saying the film is a test of whether I can act or not, but what do you think I’m doing in Twilight?’

After shooting the final Twilight film, Breaking Dawn, Pattinson is due to begin work on Unbound Captives, a western. He chose the latter because his father is ‘obsessed’ with the genre, not because it’s going to be easy: ‘It’s going to take at least a month or a month and a half of prep work. My entire part is in Comanche. I need practice.’

For now, there’s Remember Me, a romantic drama about Pattinson’s strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) and his nascent romance with Lost’s Emilie de Ravin.

As the film progresses, the audience comes to realise that this is 2001, and September 11 is looming. In the United States the film’s ending has been called emotionally manipulative.

‘Do you think so?’ Pattinson says. ‘I had been warned about people thinking that, but I read the script, and I just thought it was very tragic. I like the sense of foreboding.

‘I suppose I could’ve been typecast after Twilight,’ he continues. ‘The good thing is that the economy is so bad, I can go, “I don’t care if you think I’m right for it, I can get your movie made!’”

He laughs. ‘No, seriously, I’ve never said that in a meeting.’

One subject on which Pattinson has been shockingly tight-lipped is his romance with Kristen Stewart. Theirs is one of the most endlessly dissected and speculated-upon relationships of recent times, and in an age in which mobile phone paparazzi lurk around every corner, you can’t help but admire the way the couple have controlled the media coverage.

When I met Pattinson at the end of last year, press speculation about their relationship was reaching boiling point, but they didn’t admit to the romance until February.

‘I do think Kristen is amazing,’ is all he’ll say when I see him. ‘I wanted to work with her the moment I met her. Our chemistry was so good.’

Their relationship blossomed while they were shooting the first film. Stewart was still in a relationship, but Pattinson concedes that he pestered her from the outset. ‘I asked her out a lot,’ he told me, ‘but she wasn’t having it.’ Eventually, she relented.

The pair kept their relationship secret throughout the filming of New Moon. Pattinson, according to the gossip press, was linked with the likes of Camilla Belle, model Anne Schoenberger and former flame Nina Schubert, skilfully deflecting attention from Stewart.

Recent reports suggest Pattinson and Stewart have been house-hunting on the Isle of Wight. The couple spent New Year’s Eve in Ventnor and have apparently been looking for a love nest ever since.

It would certainly tally with Pattinson’s desire for normalcy and anonymity, which is genuine if his wistful recollection of a trip to Oxford Street last Christmas Eve is anything to go by.

‘No one recognised me, even though the store was full of New Moon posters. It was great. It’s harder in America. I can’t do anything there. There are all these screaming fans. But if I talk to one for five minutes, the illusion is gone.’

‘Remember Me’ is on release from April 2