California - Los Angeles Times' Dish Rag by Elizabeth Snead got an exclusive interview with "Little Ashes" director Paul Morrison, and spilled some untold stories behind the casting of Twilight's vampire hunk Robert Pattinson. The story of Little Ashes tackles about the strange and forbidden love between Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca played by Javier Beltran and surrealist painter Salvador Dali played by Rob Pattinson. Here are the excerpts of LA Times interview with Morrison.

Paul Morrison: I love the fact that an audience is going to be drawn to the film, partly through Rob, that wouldn't otherwise get to this kind of movie. We played the Belfast Film Festival last week and there were quite a few of Rob's fans there, not the majority by any means, and they loved it and they really took to it, so it's great that kids will be reached by the movie.

Dish Rag: Playing Salvador Dali is a daunting role for a young actor.

Paul Morrison: Yeah, I don't think Rob realized what he was getting into when he agreed to do it, but he really worked hard at it, he really grappled with it, and I think he's done something very extraordinary. It's so difficult to do, because you have to tread light all the time between playing Dali as a young lovable young man, which he was, and suggesting the kind of pastiche of himself that he became in later life, that he presented to the public in later life, and that's a very tall order, and I think Rob pulled it off.

And look at Rob Pattinson in that picture, so awesome! A little gay touch -- very convincing! Check out Dish Rag's full report ---- here