EntertainmentSix times Robert Pattinson lied magnificently to the pressThe actor was recently shocked after watching an old interview of him lying about witnessing the death of a clown in a small car explosiontoday at 12:37pm

Article published on December 4, 2024 in Rolling Stone, to read the original in English click here.

Like wizards, vampires and Batmanmany of the eccentric stories of Robert Pattinson told during interviews are, in fact, fictitious.

Although the actor’s fame for inventing stories is well known today, even Pattinson It surprises you from time to time with how he manages to tell these amazing stories. During an interview with the magazine The New York Times Style published on Wednesday, Pattinson recalled a 2011 interview during which he told a perplexed Matt Lauerlive on television, a completely made-up story about seeing a clown die in a car explosion when he was a child.

“There was absolutely no hesitation in my voice,” he said. Pattinson to the Teams. “I’m like, What the hell? Are you possessed?” He explained that during this phase of his career, “the only thing people asked me about was being famous” and “you go into a kind of fugue state.”

It is a topic that Pattinson has contemplated before, and he has already told Willem Dafoe for the Interview that he gets “a certain adrenaline rush from it.” “There’s a little goblin inside me that’s like, ‘Say something shocking. You’re only here for a few minutes, say something terrible,'” he said. Pattinson. “There’s a kind of perverse joy I get from it. But I’ve scared my publicist several times.”

So, in the spirit of little elf humor, here is a roundup of some of the most memorable lies and dubious claims from Pattinson.

Note: This is a limited list and not all lies have been accounted for.

He invited a stalker to dinner, then bored her so much she stopped following him

While participating in the Late Show With David Letterman in 2009, Pattinson said that while he was in Spain filming Few Ashes: Salvador Dalí (2008), a girl waited outside her apartment every day. “I was so chronically bored,” the actor said. “That one day, she’d been there for about three weeks, and I said, Hey, do you want to go to dinner or something? I mean, no one else wants to hang out with me.”

Pattinson detailed that the pair went to her parents’ restaurant, where he began complaining “about everything in my life for about two hours, and then she gave me the bill at the end.” The romance was short-lived and she was never seen outside his apartment again.

Although this has not been disproved, the reputation of Pattinson for nighttime storytelling puts this in the highly unlikely category.

He doesn’t wash his hair

In the same year, Pattinson told the Extra that he “really didn’t see a point in washing his hair” and that he didn’t “care if it was clean or not.” He continued, “It’s like, I don’t clean my apartment because I don’t care. I have my apartment to sleep in and I have my hair just, you know, to be on my head. I don’t care if it’s clean or not.”

While promoting the saga Dusk, Pattinson he punctuated talk show interviews with mentions of a past life as a model of female hands. So, when he went to Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2011, the presenter challenged the actor’s story, asking his mother Pattinsonwho was in the audience, to confirm his son’s story. His mother completely denied it when asked to confirm, ending the story right there.

Unable to contain himself, Pattinson commented, “I’ve done a lot of butt modeling, which you have no idea. You can’t refute that.”

His 18th birthday was marked by an April Fools prank

Pattinson told Seth Meyersin 2014, that his sisters told him on his 18th birthday — which coincidentally happened to be April Fools’ Day — that his mother was pregnant. “I went to school just rejoicing and enjoying the fact that I could have a mini-me,” he said. “I was so convinced. It was the biggest disappointment of my life.” Notably, the anniversary of Pattinson It’s on May 13th.

He stopped working out to play the Dark Knight

Pattinson sparked controversy on the internet in 2020 when he told GQ who was no longer going to the gym to prepare for her role in Batmanfrom Matt Reevesand commented that he had fired the trainer that the film studio had hired. “I think if you’re working out all the time, you’re part of the problem,” he told the magazine. “You set a precedent. No one did that in the ’70s. Even James Dean — he wasn’t exactly muscular.” With a sigh, he added, “Literally, I’m barely doing anything.”

Two years later, Pattinson referred to the dry joke about exercise. “It really came back to haunt me,” he told the MovieMaker. “I always think it’s really embarrassing to talk about how you’re working out. I think it’s an English thing. Unless you’re in incredibly good shape, where people are genuinely curious, saying, How did you achieve, like, perfection? physics? or something.”

Pattinson stated the obvious: “You are interpreting the Batman. You have to work out. I think I was doing the interview during lockdown, there in England… I was exercising at a lower intensity.”

He also took the opportunity to mention again that he actually washes his hair. “It’s like saying in an interview when I was 21 that I didn’t wash my hair,” he recalled. “This has remained for 15 years.”

He was a floppy disk dealer

In perhaps one of his oldest lies — some might say classic — Pattinson admitted in an interview with GQ in 2022 who once posed as a drug dealer to impress a girl. “I haven’t thought about it in years, but during high school my first almost-girlfriend was a few years older than me, and I always wanted to hang out with the cool kids who were seniors,” he explained. “And some of us decided I would pretend I was importing drugs. But I didn’t even know what drugs looked like.”

To solve the problem, Pattinson gathered 40 floppy disks. “I had this idea of ​​taking floppy disks, opening them up, filling them with some kind of powder, and then spraying them with some kind of cleaning product so they smell like chemicals, and sealing it all up again,” he said. “I would show this to kids who were probably 15 or 16, and say, Yes, I’m importing drugs on floppy disks.”