Robert Pattinson, Twilight star and world-wide heartthrob du jour, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of AnOther Man magazine (the magazine that attempts to “speak to the ‘other’ man, a man not being catered to currently by fashion magazines”). Trying to pull off his best “James Dean“, R. Pattz looks and sounds moody in his new coverstory interview. Here is our first look at his AnOther Man coverphoto and a preview of his coverstory interview:

DazedDigital previews issue 9 of AnOther Man out on October 1, which features Robert Pattinson on the cover, shot by Hedi Slimane and styled by Nicola Formichetti. Dave Calhoun speak to the 23-year-old Twilight star about the pressures of fame and the craft of acting: “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life” … Here is an excerpt from the Robert Pattinson feature written by Dave Calhoun. Was Pattinson aware of the loyalty of fans of the Twilight books? It looks like the sort of obsessive fandom that can turn into anger and even hatred when an adaptation isn’t to their liking. Did he know what he was letting himself in for? “It’s strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn’t even buy them in London. I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren’t available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all. I’d seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke’s other films, and that’s all I thought it was, something really small.” His manner is very laid back. He doesn’t sound thrusting or ambitious, more like he’s just going with the flow and enjoying things. Is he going to harness his newfound fame and box-office appeal to approach the kind of filmmakers he wants to work with in the future? He’s not so sure. “Annoyingly, there are so few parts I feel I can add anything to, or that I want to do.” But he knows what he doesn’t need. “I don’t want to be an actor for the sake of it. I don’t find any particular pleasure in being an attention-seeker.”

I dunno if R. Pattz will really be able to craft a serious and successful acting career out of the Twilight movies but he will be insanely rich … so whether or not he achieves the critical acclaim that he say she wants, he’ll have a helluva lotta money to make up for it. He’ll also have his good looks to carry him thru — at least for a little while. After the jump, check out a couple more photos from Rob‘s AnOther Man photospread …

James Dean he is not … but he makes a pretty good R. Pattz. Do y’all like?

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