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Apart from being one of the acclaimed stars of the current Hollywood landscape, Robert Pattinson is no stranger to telling stories that hold no water and later going on to debunk them in a hilarious fashion. From claiming to watch a clown explode during his visit to a circus back in the 2010s to lying to Nolan about a fake family emergency are just some to name a few.
And while most of his lies are harmless and pretty hilarious,The BatmanStar did face consequences for making stuff up to get certain roles, warning young actors against it.
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Robert Pattinson’s Practice of Lying to Get Roles Came Back to Haunt Him
Robert Pattinsonwas no stranger to telling fibs to bag roles during his initial years in Hollywood, and this did come back to haunt him in certain cases, with the most prominent one beingHarry Potter. Pattinson, who lacked adequate swimming skills at the time, lied about swimming to star inGoblet of Fireand got himself in some serious bother during the filming of the swimming sequence in the movie. The actor further opened up about his reason for“making stuff up all the time”, while reflecting on the consequences that arrived with it. PerIndieWire, he said,
“I think also a lot of the people who are drawn to acting when they’re younger are people who really like bullshitting and you have no qualms about bullshitting to anybody,”he said.“Once you start getting known, then it’s like, ‘Oh, my entire social ability was based on just making stuff up all the time.’ And now, there’s consequences for making stuff up.”
WhileThe LighthouseStar has come a long way since his days inHarry Potter, transitioning into one of the biggest names in Hollywood, he still resorts to minute lies in order to get by sometimes. And during one of these instances, Christopher Nolan caught him red-handed.
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Christopher Nolan Called His Bluff Out on the Sets ofTenet
Fixated on keeping his audition forThe Batmana secret, Robert Pattinson resorted to faking a family emergency during his time on the sets of Tenet to get to the audition. However,Christopher Nolan, who revived the IP back in the mid-2000s, wasn’t deceived by Pattinson’s tactics, as he proceeded to call him out on his lie. Pattinson recalled the hilarious incident, saying (viaThe Irish Times),
“I had to keep everything about ‘Batman’ a secret, so I had to lie to Nolan when I went for an audition. I told him I had a family emergency. And, as soon as I said ‘it’s a family emergency,’ he said, ‘You’re going to cast ‘Batman,’ right?”
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While Pattinson’s habit of making up stuff did come back to haunt him on several occasions, it’s been mostly harmless and hilarious.
Santanu Roy
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Santanu Roy is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 2,000 articles under his belt. He has been pursuing a degree in Animation and possesses a deep love for the medium of animation. Having spent the better part of the last two years pumping out articles for FW, Santanu excels at covering movie analysis and news surrounding Pixar, DCU, DreamWorks, and Batman’s cinematic legacy.With psychological thrillers and intimate slice-of-life dramas ranking among his favorite genres, Santanu is a big admirer of Luca Guadagnino, Shane Black, Park Chan-wook, and Brad Bird.
