“I just say the first thing that comes into my head out of nervousness,” Robert says in the new issue of GQ, perhaps explaining all those terrible sound bites he’s given. “During interviews, I’m literally s***ting my pants. I don’t want there to be a silence, because I’ll start crying.”
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On auditioning for his “Twilight” role, “It was the first time I’ve ever taken a Valium. A quarter of a Valium,” he corrects. “I tried to do it for another audition, and it completely backfired — I was passing out.”
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“There’s literally not a single [true] story that could be written about me,” he says. “I never do anything. There’s this thing about my supposed girlfriend … it’s like, ‘He’s dating this Brazilian model.’ I’ve never met her.”
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On “Little Ashes,” his new movie, “In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff. I thought I’d never get another acting job again, so I was like, ‘yeah — why not try to do something weird?’ There’s all these gay sex scenes. And y’know, I haven’t even done a sex scene with a girl in my whole career!”
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“I’m not massively concerned about doing lots of acting jobs. If it all just went, right now, I’d be like, ‘all right. I don’t really care.’ That’s probably a stupid thing to say. But I don’t, really. I think it’d be much worse to do a load of stuff that’s really bad. Because then you can’t go into another career. If you’ve made an idiot out of yourself, you’re never going to be taken seriously as a lawyer.”
