There's been a frustraing shortage of new Robert Pattinson pictures lately but the Twilight hearthrob is back doing his brooding James Dean thing in the new issue of AnOther Man.

The actor looks his conflicted best as he poses in a denim jacket and ratty t-shirt in one of a series of black and white images shot by Hedi Slimane for the British magazine.

In the accompanying interview, Rob discusses how his own fame, propelled by the Twilight phenomenon, took him entirely by surprise.

He says: “It’s strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn’t even buy them in London. I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren’t available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all. I’d seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke’s other films, and that’s all I thought it was, something really small.”

Check out more pictures from the shoot below: