"It was supposed to be part of a multimedia project at Yale (university)," Contactmusic quoted him as telling the Playboy Magazine.
"I was working with a Yale undergraduate who had written an autobiographical play about putting on a theatrical production of Twilight, in which I was a character.
"So I was interested in Twilight because I was going to be part of that play. I thought what a great connection it would be if I were also involved with the real Twilight," he added.
