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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