Courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk:
Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have a "nervous attraction" to each other, according to the film's director - although Stewart dismissed it as a "retarded" rumour.
The exact nature of their relationship is the subject of fevered speculation, and director Catherine Hardwicke has fuelled the rumour mill.
"What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other. Complex feelings for each other. It was what we needed. Complete, intense fascination," said Hardwicke, who directed the first Twilight movie.
In a profile in Vanity Fair magazine, Hardwicke said there was a "nervous attraction" on set between Pattinson and Stewart. Pattinson was "always drunk" in the evenings on location, she added, entertaining Stewart and other cast members in his hotel room with his guitar.
Pattinson, 23, and Stewart, 19, who are about to reprise their roles as Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, attempted to shoot down the rumours in the same magazine article.
"It's so retarded. We're characters in this comic book," said Stewart.
Pattinson said: "It doesn't make any difference what you say. I've literally been across the country [from Kristen] and it's like, 'Oh, they were on secret dates!' It's like, 'Where? I can't get out of my hotel room!'"
The British actor has found it difficult to adjust to his status as an international heart-throb, being chased by fans wherever he goes. "I guess I'm not the type of guy cut out to do a franchise. I'm not much of a crowd person," he said. "I'm unbearably self-conscious about stuff."
Although female admirers are unlikely to agree, Pattinson likened his face to "a cartoon character", pointed out that one of his legs is longer than the other and said he looked "like an idiot".
