Robert Pattinson has been mendacity throughout interviews for a very long time, and for a enjoyable purpose.
The actor, identified for his offbeat humor and tendency to spin tall tales in press interviews, lately revisited considered one of his more unusual moments from 2011.
While rewatching a tv interview from that yr, the Twilight star was reminded of a made-up story he shared throughout the promotional tour for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.
In the interview, Pattinson claimed to have witnessed a clown dying in a little-car explosion as a toddler. Reflecting on the second, he instructed The New York Times Style Magazine, “There was completely no hesitation in any respect [in my voice]. I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?’”
Pattinson admitted that making-up tales grew to become a coping mechanism throughout the peak of his Twilight fame, as he was typically requested repetitive questions on superstar life.
“The solely factor folks would ever ask me about was being well-known,” he stated. “You go into, like, a fugue state.”
Some of Pattinson’s different wild tales included being a ladies’s hand mannequin, taking a stalker out to dinner, and filming a deleted coprophilia scene for Twilight.
These outlandish anecdotes, whereas fully false, had been his means of including humour into the boredom that got here with press excursions.
