Planning his next move

As the sun sets on the vampire series, Robert Pattinson tells Patricia Danaher how Twilight has given him friendship, love, and thousands of frenzied fans

THE high-pitched screams from outside the Four Seasons in LA say it all: Robert Pattinson is in the building. The 25-year-old is remarkably calm and cheerful today, philosophical, even in the face of the hysteria which his every public step draws. He is every bit as square-jawed and handsome in person, confident and friendly and he laughs a lot, self-deprecatingly.

With Breaking Dawn, the first part of the final instalment of the Twilight franchise about to hit cinemas (part two will be released next November), Pattinson has already begun to carve out the next stage in his career, with a lead in the David Cronenberg movie Cosmopolis among his next projects.