Robert Pattinson has revealed that he didn't want to do Twilight.
The British actor takes on the role of Edward Cullen in the vampire series, a role that has shot him to stardom over the last eighteen months.
New Moon hit the big screen back in November and despite getting mixed reviews by the critics it went on to gross over $706 million at the global box office.
Speaking to the Daily Mail the actor said: "At first I didn't want to do a movie like Twilight. I specifically hadn't done anything that anyone would see since Harry Potter because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn't want to be an idiot.
"I was going to wait for another year to do two or three more little things and then do something bigger.
"Twilight came kind of randomly. It was a chance and as I didn't have a reputation at all there was nothing for me to lose."
The actor also admitted he didn't believe that he was right for the role of Edward Cullen when he went for the audition.
"They actually asked me to take my shirt off at the audition. I thought, 'If that's the criteria, then you've got the wrong guy'.
"I knew about the audition five months beforehand, but I didn't want to bother getting a six-pack or doing much else at all in preparation - but looking back, I might have combed my hair.
"I thought that I had to be this bland guy with his shirt off who people just project ideas onto. At first I thought to play Edward in an interesting way was impossible."
But he is all set to return to the franchise this summer with Eclipse, the third movie in the series. Breaking Dawn is possibly in the pipeline.
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