BERLIN (AFP) - "Twilight" heart-throb Robert Pattinson stars as a 19th century Parisian social climber who sleeps his way to the top in "Bel Ami", a role he told the Berlin film festival reminded him of today's reality TV stars.
Trading in his brooding vampire for the role of an ambitious bon vivant, Pattinson's character Georges Duroy seduces the most powerful women in the French capital, played by Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Pattinson, greeted by hundreds of screaming fans who waited for hours in the cold to catch a glimpse of him, said Georges was an upstart who knew how to use the media to his advantage.
"It's basically like being a reality TV star -- he found a loophole in life and is making money by basically doing nothing," he told reporters.







