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I want a hug too.... #RobertPattinson pic.twitter.com/wOd2J4QYRw— Flavia (@flying099) January 31, 2020
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I want a hug too.... #RobertPattinson pic.twitter.com/wOd2J4QYRw— Flavia (@flying099) January 31, 2020
Tonight's @BBCFrontRow : Robert Pattinson on sailors' superstition & madness in #TheLighthouse, Greta Gerwig on the power of #LittleWomen & the risk of filmmaking in warzones 715pm R4 https://t.co/2Kiili6AL9 pic.twitter.com/SnH74Xe59z— Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) January 30, 2020
Robert Pattinson is every bit as intense as you might expect. He rests his famously chiselled chin on a clenched fist and considers the question I’ve put to him. ‘How do you make a spectacular wank?’ he muses. ‘A prize-winning wank?’
The London-born actor is telling me about a memorable episode in his latest film, ‘The Lighthouse’. It is, in his own words, a ‘ferocious masturbation scene’. To make matters more bizarre, they shot it on the opening day of filming. ‘It was fun doing it on the first day,’ he admits. ‘It was an icebreaker.’
Was there an element of wanting to impress director Robert Eggers? ‘We’d just done a week of rehearsals where I’d basically hidden everything from him,’ he says. ‘I felt I had to prove myself on the first day, so I went [for] the most extreme and grotesque… grotesquery.’
So how do you conjure up a ‘prize-winning wank’? He looks me in the eye and says in all seriousness: ‘Throw up on yourself.’
He reflects on this for a second. ‘They didn’t use that take in the end,’ he recalls. ‘It was a bit too much.’
Okay, aside from the whole making himself vomit while tossing himself off thing, he’s not that intense. He’s quite a laugh, actually. Which is handy, as we’ve decided to pelt him with petals and shove a load of flowers in his face for our photoshoot. And for the most part, he rolls with it. There’s only one thing he won’t do, which is holding flowers up to his eyes like glasses. ‘That’s where I draw the line,’ he says firmly. ‘It’s a little too Teen Vogue for moi.’
Listen to @adamtanswell talk to #RobertPattinson about how his career has been 'arthouse the whole way through' on our latest podcast getting inside the madness of #TheLighthouse.https://t.co/PxhWQutev9 pic.twitter.com/ahookWq3Rd— Jane Crowther (@totalfilm_jane) January 23, 2020