Eventually it came down to to a final four -- Ben Barnes, Shiloh Fernandez, Jackson Rathbone (who was later cast as Jasper) and, of course, Pattinson.recalled last year, adding, "He had been fired from his last job, he was unemployed, he was in debt." Pattinson actually paid for his own flight from London to Los Angeles for the opportunity.

A week went by, and we continued to abstain from sex, although we were seeing each other almost daily at this point. I already knew I had HSV I — typically expressed orally as cold sores on the mouth — but my partner wasn't sure if he had HSV I or HSV II.