"Twilight" star to play "gay-ish" in "Little Ashes"

Javier Beltran (left) and Robert Pattinson in Little Ashes

Stars such as Will Smith and Jake Gyllenhaal have played gay on their way to international superstardom, but Robert Pattinson, currently best known as Cedric from the Harry Potter movies, has the order reversed. This Friday, he opens in Twilight, the eagerly-awaited adaptation of the first book in the bestselling teen vampire series, and it's widely expected to make him a star.

But come winter (in the U.K.) and spring (in the U.S.), we'll see him starring as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, a small British movie about the passionate friendship/"bromance"/love affair between the famous "straight" painter and his gay playwright friend Federico García Lorca.

More pics from the film after the jump!