Robert Pattinson is still in shock by his rise to fame, but credits his father with kickstarting his career which ended up landing him the role of teen vampire Edward Cullen in the movie adaptation of ‘Twilight’ which has catapulted him to sex symbol status:

“It’s all a bit of a surprise, the acting and fame. I never did acting in school. My dad was in a restaurant and saw a bunch of pretty girls and decided to go up and ask where they had been.
“They said they went to this drama club, so he said we’d better go down too! It’s the only time he’s done something like that. We went down there and I began to work backstage.  “Then one day I was the only one left to play a leading role. That was the first acting I’d done and yet somehow I got an agent.”

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