Robert Pattinson Lied in a TV Interview About Seeing a Clown Die in a Car Explosion; He Makes Up Stories Because Boring Questions Put Him in a ‘Fugue State’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Pattinson is well known for messing around with the press and telling lies in his interviews, but even he was caught off guard recently while rewatching a television interview from 2011.
That was the year “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” opened in theaters, meaning Pattinson was on a particularly grueling global publicity tour.
He lied during the interview by saying he saw a clown die in a little-car explosion when he was as a child. “There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice],” Pattinson told The New York Times Style Magazine. “I’m like, ‘What on earth?
Are you possessed?’” The actor explained that he often made up stories in press interviews during this time in his career because “the only thing people would ever ask me about was being famous” and “you go into, like, a fugue state.” Other lies Pattinson told in interviews include being a women’s hand model, taking a stalker to dinner and shooting a coprophilia scene for “Twilight” that got deleted.
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