I’ve noticed something odd about Our Sparkles – he seems like a much cooler, funnier, sweeter person when he’s not promoting anything Twilight-related. It happened when he was promoting Remember Me last year, and it’s happening again with Water for Elephants. Sparkles just seems… relaxed. By most accounts, he and Kristen Stewart have finished filming Breaking Dawn (although there’s still a lot of promotional work to be done, spread out over more than a year). I think Sparkles has begun to see the light at the end of the Twihard tunnel, you know? And I give him a lot of credit – he wears his fame and the devotion of his “Robsessed” fans with lightness and humor. I can’t help it, I like the kid.

Anyway, these are new photos of a relaxed-looking Sparkles in Spain on Monday. The three Water for Elephants leads stopped in for a photo call and premiere in Barcelona. For the photo call, Sparkles looks rather dashing, but he fugged it up for the premiere, looking kind of druggy and out of it.

As for Reese… I preferred her premiere look, an LBD with a sweetheart neckline. Her photocall look is the blue watercolor-ish shift dress… which I find kind of meh. I think Reese heard some of the speculation that she’s already knocked up (and showing), so she wore some fitted looks on this leg of the promotion. Is anyone else ready for her to do something different with her hair? I’d love it if she went brunette again. She was stunning as a brunette.

Photos courtesy of Fame.