The countdown begins!

R-Patts and Stewart face legions of screaming fans at Summit Entertainment's Twilight World Premiere at Mann Village Theater on Nov. 17 in Westwood, Calif.

Of his newfound fan base, Pattinson told the Today Show, "It's just amusing now. People just project their idea of the character onto me, and assume I'm the same, when I'm just really not. It makes my life very easy."

You mean he's not a pale-faced, blood-loving vampire in real life?