When Greg Mason, a cigar salesman for the Chattanooga Billiards Club, walked into work at 7 p.m. Saturday, he was told there would be a �special party� happening on the building�s second floor.
This party�s main attraction, Mason came to find out, was going to be �Twilight� star Robert Pattinson.
�I didn�t even realize it was him when he walked through the door,� recalled Mason, who was working as CBC�s doorman Saturday. �I really wasn�t star-struck too much, but seeing a star�s face is pretty cool.�
Pattinson and production crew members for the upcoming movie �Water for Elephants,� which is rumored being filmed at least partially at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum this week, attracted a slew of fans to the CBC downtown on Saturday.
One of them was Jessica Eubanks, who waited 45 minutes for a chance to make her way to the second floor.
�It was probably one of the best nights of my life, as cheesy as that sounds,� she said.
Eubanks had to wait to get to the second floor because it had reached capacity. After a couple of people left, she said she was allowed to go upstairs.
After maneuvering around bodyguards and �flirting� with production crew members, she managed to speak with the star for around 10 minutes.
�Knowing that he�s such a nice person makes me like him more as an actor, that he would actually talk to us lowly citizens,� Eubanks said.
The discussion among Pattinson, Eubanks and three of Eubanks� friends focused mainly on Chattanooga, she said. Eubanks asked Pattinson if he was �tired of Chattanooga yet.�
�And he said: �No, I love it here. Your town is awesome,�� she said.
Production crew members told Eubanks that Pattinson had dined at St. John�s Restaurant on Friday and went to Porter�s Steakhouse later that night.
Though Eubanks was not allowed to be photographed with Pattinson, she did manage to get a shot of him pounding fists with someone.
�I took the picture right after he talked to us,� she said.
Mason said Pattinson sneaked out the back to avoid a crowd of 30 to 40 girls outside the CBC who couldn�t get in because they were under 21. They were among many heart-throb fans in and around the CBC on Saturday who were �just (trying to) get a glimpse of him,� Mason added.
Mason said: �I even had a girl tell me: �I just want to be in the same building as him.��
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