'Twilight' Star Robert Pattinson talks about nude gay sex scenes in 'Little ashes'

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-04-29 10:32

Twilight star Robert Pattinson is finding overnight celebrity a bit surreal. "It's a weird experience, and you do tend to start getting a little bit paranoid," says Rob, 22, "Looking around when you're walking down the street, in case you get mobbed by teenage girls!"

With the release of his indie flick, Little Ashes, which he was playing famous artist Salvador Dali. The film explores some pretty heavy themes including Dali’s love affair with Federico Garcia Lorca.

Rob has a nude, homosexual sex scene in the biopic. "I thought I'd never get another acting job again," Pattinson continued. "So I was like, 'Yeah - why not try to do something weird?' There's all these gay-sex scenes. And, you know, I haven't even done a sex scene with a girl in my whole career."

Pattinson said it wasn't so much having to play gay that was hard, but having an audience there for it. "Here I am, with Javier [Beltrán], who plays [Federico Garcí] Lorca, doing an extremely hard-core sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward," he said. "And because we're both straight, what we were doing seemed kind of ridiculous. ... And it wasn't even a closed set. There were all these Spanish electricians giggling to themselves."

Talking about movies is one thing for Pattinson, but for the guy who nearly had a panic attack at the Twilight premiere, talking about himself in interviews isn't easy.

"The only way to establish any kind of mystique is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone," he said. "And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

Meanwhile, Rob is currently in Vancouver filming New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. The single Pattinson has been romantically linked to his co-stars Nikki Reed, 20, and Kristen Stewart, 19, as well as to starlets Camilla Belle, Megan Fox and Natalie Portman.