Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner cover this week’s Entertainment Weekly and somehow the conversation veered to Robert Pattinson’s hair. Apparently, producers wanted Pattinson to have longer hair in the very beginning. He says they wanted his mane to swing “down to his hips.”

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Pattinson put his foot down at that, or as they story goes, yet Kristen says this is all a big exaggeration and they really just envisioned a vampire with shoulder-length hair. Regardless, Pattinson realizes a lot of his fame can be traced back to his locks. (via PopWatch.com)

“I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance,” the 23-year-old actor admits, his locks now comfortably hidden under a Yankee’s cap. “So in the second one I said, ‘Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let’s make it a little more real, a little bit more…Method.’”

Of course, the powers that be found that request to be too dicey.

“And then in the third one, I’m doing fight scenes and there’s a strand going down my forehead and they’re like, ‘We need to do it again because no one will recognize you! No one will know who it is!’ I have to look like the poster at all times. Just in case they want to use any clip for the trailer. Any clip at all! There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.”

We like this bunch. In a refreshing break of suit from someone like, say, Brangelina- they seem genuinly perplexed and disgusted by it all.

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