Robert Pattinson got a well-deserved respite today from the
inquiring minds who would have him talk about Kristen Stewart, or at least have
him address his possibly ex-girlfriend by asking him questions about his
feelings and how he's doing.
So when Pattinson said, "I was very close to
killing myself or killing her," sorry, he was only talking about
Cosmopolis costar Sarah Gadon, who when they first met asked him the always
loaded question, "What did you do to prepare for this?"
"You want to get tears, you've got to give me
the big bucks," the 26-year-old actor said in a mock-gangster voice when
MTV First's Josh Horowitz promised that there would be no Dr. Phil or Oprah
talk during their film-centric chat.
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Not that their interview didn't produce plenty of
juicy nuggests—the actor admitted to peeing in cars "many times," for
goodness' sake!
"Well, not all over the car—in a bottle!"
explained Pattinson, clad in what appeared to be the same striped polo shirt,
jeans (zipped all the way, thank you!) and backward baseball cap as yesterday.
And, like his Cosmopolis character Eric Packer,
Rob has also shot a gun (the guy on the poster at the LAPD shooting range
apparently resembled his dad) and has had at least two pies thrown in his face.
So, he had a little life experience to draw from
when he accepted the role of a filthy rich wunderkind banker whose day goes
awry while he's headed across Manhattan to get a haircut. But Pattinson also
admitted that getting the offer from director David Cronenberg was "one of
the first times I actually considered myself an actor."
"It was total luck, like a gift to get the
job," he said. "I sort of fell into acting, it's not like I've been
striving since I was a kid. I like movies more than acting, I think. I like the
idea of being in movies that I like, so at least I've contributed something.
"I don't know about validation," he
continued. "As soon as you feel validated, you're a bad actor. You need to
constantly feel like there's a 99-percent chance of failure, devastating
failure...You should feel with every job, there's a chance you'll never get one
again. It's all about actually living in the present."
David Cronenberg weighs in on Rob's personal life
Pattinson's utter lack of cockiness has always
been one of the most charming things about him, don't you think?
Speaking of which, the Twilight star may be a
sex-scene veteran by now, but the Cronenberg twist in this case involved a
naked woman crawling all over Rob in his character's limo during a constant
stream of dialogue.
Pattinson said that the sex wasn't even in the
original script and that Cronenberg came up with the idea later and informed
him what he'd be doing that very morning on set.
When will Kristen Stewart be returning to the
public eye?
"It becomes funnier [as you go along] as
well," he recalled of shooting the scene. "The mechanics of a sex
scene, 'There's a climax' and stuff. You're trying to figure that out...That
was my idea, the climax scene and saying, 'Do you find this interesting?'
afterwards. We're doing it in one take, you have to figure out what to do. I'm
trying to hide my belly."
Probably unnecessary, but fair enough.
Asked how it feels to be getting the best reviews
of his career to date, Pattinson admitted, "It's a relief not to get s--t
on. I've had a lot of s--t on my head."
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