Kellan Lutz is a dirty boy with Brad Pitt on his mind

Kellan Lutz is good-looking. He’s so good-looking he managed to carve out a name for himself starring alongside teen megaheartthrob Robert Pattinson in the Twilight films. The attractive actor also appeared in next to nothing as the star of Calvin Klein’s X Underwear campaign, further highlighting his alluring assets for fans.

In a new sit-down with Interview magazine, Lutz gives us all the lowdown on his hardworking, dirty farm days in Iowa, his love of modeling, and his admiration for Brad Pitt’s abs. Not only is the ambitious wannabe action star handsome, he’s got some pretty entertaining tales to tell.

Like what you see so far? Get to know Lutz a little bit better after the jump.

Before regaling readers with accounts of his days folding T-shirts for Abercrombie and just after introducing his two beloved adopted dogs, Lutz gets down to the nitty-gritty of his backstory. It seems his drive and work ethic were established early with heavy farm duty. Lucky for us, Lutz likes getting all dirty.

The Twilight hunk spent summers in Iowa, “where the big farm was, where my grandparents lived. After my parents divorced, we would visit them. My mom would send me out to the pigpen, where we had these huge, huge pigs. I would stand there for six hours holding a hose, watering pigs. They’d dive in the mud and shake it off, and I’d go home covered in it. I loved the whole thing of getting wet and dirty and then getting in a warm bath.”

The onetime topless A&F store greeter at an L.A. mall also isn’t quite comfortable with the title of sex symbol. The humble dude says he’s no Brad Pitt— an A-list actor whose name he drops multiple times in the piece, Brad on the brain much?

“It’s funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt,” Lutz says. “I just laugh. I’m not that. I don’t want to be that. ‘You’re a sex icon.’ Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It’s all very unearned. If I had the best freaking abs in the world or if I looked like Brad Pitt does in Fight Club [1999], then cool, but I’m not starving myself. I eat what I want, and I’m not a workout fiend. My genetics are good, but they aren’t crazy He-Man style. I don’t get it, but I appreciate it.”

I kind of get it.

And I like it!

Read the rest of what Kellan had to say on InterviewMagazine.com.

Images: Mikael Jansson for Interview