Hot Actor: Q&A With "Twilight" Star Robert Pattinson : Rolling Stone

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Do you have any gay teenagers contacting you?
Not really. It's really just increasingly more and more straight guys than gay guys — unless my gaydar is just not really working. It's just started happening recently. They're all kind of a little bit embarrassed about it, but they'll all go up and still get their book signed or whatever. I'm so used to like writing to girls I always keep writing like, "Love, romance and kiss, kiss, kiss" that I have to like cross it out, "Oh, sorry about that."

Tell me about an experience you had where you just found someone hiding and watching when you were on set.
It's just weird. I mean again though, all really nice people. It seemed completely logical to them why they were there: "We like it. We want to see it." And they were so blunt about it. I think if we were shooting it now it'd be such a different story. The crowds were getting bigger and bigger and bigger as we were shooting; they'd be out all night with us at a shoot.

But there's something to be said by it being different group than the people who scream at Jonas Brothers shows.
Yeah, and they defend it as well. They don't want to be associated with other groups. Like, you see little things on message boards and stuff — whenever I get any negative publicity, you get literally 400 comments just saying like, "Shut up! You're just writing this like so people will go and do this for your site." I don't know. I never expected any of this from this job. [Laughs]

Who do you think is more intense, the Twilight moms or the younger girls?
The more intense letters and stuff come from younger people. The, "I'm going to kill myself..." [letters]. That's always a little bit worrying. But the Twilight moms are everywhere. It's unbelievable. Every single time we do an appearance they're always in the front row, and buy their tickets way in advance. It's pretty intense. They're always really nice though; no one seems crazy when you meet them. They just like the books.

There's so little literature aimed at girls, so it becomes very hyped and successful. There's definitely a kind of clan mentality with the fans, and people want to be part of the group. They like defending it, because a lot of people say it's cheesy, and I think a lot of it is an outsider mentality — the whole book, the whole kind of fantasy genre...

But then outsiders who also aren't really outsiders.
Not anymore. When the outsiders become strong it's incredibly powerful. As the movie's been happening and the magazine covers, more people think it's legitimized and more people buy the book; everything is kind of galvanized. That's why I don't really feel bad about the hype or anything, because it's not someone who's forcing it down anyone's throat. The reason we were on the VMAs is 'cause all these fans sent e-mails accosting us. It's not someone who's paying for this — it's all fan-driven so it's completely out of anyone's hands.

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