Robert Pattinson is way cooler than Edward Cullen.

He's really, really funny.  So funny that I've almost managed to block out the memory of the infamous EW cover*:

And from FEARnet's interview:

When you were cast and read the book did you think, “Well I’m really beautiful so I’ll be good at this?”

LeFevre: (laughs) Yeah he just looked in the mirror and was like, “It’s in the bag.”

Pattinson: No, I mean that’s kind of why I was kind of tortured before the casting. I read the book and was like “Well this is really dumb I’ll never ever… this is so pointless going up for the role.” Which is what a lot of the fans said, after I was initially cast. They were like “He wasn’t even on the shortlist!” It is kind of weird. I’ve spent a long time thinking, “How can I take the whole beautiful thing as an interpretation?” And I realized that it’s just Bella saying he’s so beautiful and she’s just in love with him and obsessed with him so he could be like a piece of cheese and she would think the same thing.

(FEARnet link via Reviewer X)

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*Oh, wait.  Nope.  There it is again.