Like wizards, vampires, and Batman, lots of Robert Pattinson‘s offbeat tales doled out throughout dutiful press interviews are in truth, not actual.
While the actor’s penchant for fibbing is well-known by now, even Pattinson surprises himself each occasionally by how he masterfully spins tall tales. During an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine printed Wednesday, Pattinson revisited a 2011 interview throughout which he instructed a bewildered Matt Lauer on dwell tv a very made-up story about seeing a clown die in slightly automotive explosion as a child.
“There was completely no hesitation in any respect [in my voice],” Pattinson instructed the Times. “I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?’” He defined that in this time in his profession “the one factor folks would ever ask me about was being well-known” and “you go into, like, a fugue state.”
It’s a subject Pattinson has contemplated earlier than, and he as soon as instructed Willem Dafoe for Interview that he will get “a sure excessive from it.” “There’s slightly gremlin within me that thinks, ‘Just say one thing surprising. You’re solely right here for a couple of minutes, say one thing horrible,’” mentioned Pattinson. “There’s a type of perverse glee I get from that. But I’ve given my publicist various coronary heart assaults.”
So, within the spirit of humoring that little Gremlin, right here’s a rundown of a few of Pattinson’s most memorable deceptions and doubtful claims.
Note: This is a restricted checklist and never all lies have been accounted for.
He invited a stalker to dinner, then bored her a lot that she stopped following him
While showing on the Late Show With David Letterman in 2009, Pattinson mentioned that whereas he was in Spain filming Little Ashes, a woman waited outdoors his condominium on daily basis. “I used to be so chronically bored,” the actor mentioned. “That in the future, she’d been on the market for about three weeks, and I mentioned, ‘Hey, do you simply wish to go to dinner or one thing? I imply, nobody else desires to hang around with me.’”
Pattinson detailed that the pair went to her mother and father’ restaurant the place he proceeded to complain “about all the things in my life for about two hours, after which she gave me the invoice on the finish.” The romance was short-lived and he or she was by no means seen outdoors his condominium once more.
While this one hasn’t been debunked, Pattinson popularity for spinning late-night tales however this within the extremely unlikely bin.
He doesn’t wash his hair
That similar yr, Pattinson instructed Extra that he didn’t “actually see the purpose in washing your hair” and he didn’t “care if it’s clear or not.” He pressed on: “It’s like, I don’t clear my condominium ’trigger I don’t care. I’ve my condominium for sleeping in and I’ve my hair for simply, you understand, hanging on my head. I don’t care whether or not it’s clear or not.”
While his remarks impressed a number of rumors that he by no means showered and was suspiciously smelly on the set of New Moon, Pattinson has since dispelled the spell. In a pleasant little bit of breaking information, the Twilight veteran admitted to the Wall Street Journal that he “was a brush-your-teeth-and-have-a-shower type of man.”
He had a gig as a ladies’s hand mannequin
While selling the Twilight saga, Pattinson would pepper speak present interviews with mentions of a previous life as a ladies’s hand mannequin. Then, when stopping by Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2011, the late-night host challenged the actor’s story, calling on Pattinson’s mom within the viewers to vouch for her son. His mom vehemently shook her head when requested to substantiate, nonetheless, snipping the yarn then and there.
Not having the ability to assist himself, Pattinson quipped, “I’ve completed plenty of butt modeling, which you haven’t any concept. You can’t refute that.”
His 18th birthday was wrapped in an April Fool’s prank
Pattinson instructed Seth Meyers in 2014 that his sisters instructed him on his 18th birthday, which occurred to be on April Fool’s Day, that he mom was pregnant. “I went to high school simply being like rejoicing and basking in the truth that I can have a mini-me,” he mentioned. “I used to be so satisfied. It was essentially the most upset I’ve ever been my life.” Notably, Pattinson’s birthday falls on May 13.
He stopped understanding to play the Caped Crusader
Pattinson sparked web outrage in 2020 when he instructed GQ that he was now not hitting the gymnasium to organize for his position in for Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and mentioned that he had ditched his coach employed by the movie studio. “I believe in the event you’re understanding on a regular basis, you’re a part of the issue,” he instructed the journal. “You set a precedent. No one was doing this within the Seventies. Even James Dean — he wasn’t precisely ripped.” With a sigh, he added: “Literally, I’m simply barely doing something.”
Two years later, Pattinson addressed the dry exercise joke. “That actually got here again to hang-out me,” he instructed MovieMaker. “I simply all the time assume it’s actually embarrassing to speak about the way you’re understanding. I believe it’s like an English factor. Unless you might be in essentially the most unbelievable form, the place persons are simply genuinely curious, going, ‘How have you ever achieved, like, bodily perfection?’ or no matter.”
Pattinson acknowledged the plain, “You’re taking part in Batman. You should work out. I believe I used to be doing the interview once I was in lockdown, as properly, in England … I used to be in a decrease gear of understanding.”
He additionally took the chance to as soon as once more point out that he, in truth, does wash his hair. “It’s the identical factor as saying in an interview once I was like 21 that I didn’t wash my hair,” he recalled. “It simply sticks for 15 years.”
He was a floppy disc-slinging drug vendor
In maybe certainly one of his oldest — some could say basic — lies, Pattinson admitted in a 2022 GQ interview that he as soon as postured as a drug vendor to impress a woman. “I haven’t considered this in years, however throughout secondary faculty my first proper-ish type of girlfriend was just a few years above me, and I all the time needed to hang around with the cool youngsters, who have been within the oldest yr,” he defined. “And a few of us determined that I’d faux that I used to be importing medicine. But I didn’t even know what medicine regarded like.”
To treatment the predicament, Pattinson rounded up 40 floppy disks. “I had this concept I’d get floppy disks, open up the floppy disk, pour this type of powder stuff inside, after which spray it with, like, some type of cleansing product in order that it’d scent chemical-y, and seal all of it in,” he mentioned. “I’d present it to youngsters who have been most likely 15 or 16, and I’d be like: Yeah, I’m importing medicine in floppy discs.”
