Robert Pattinson Says Hitting Someone Can Be "Cathartic"
Robert Pattinson The 23-year-old is currently promoting new movie Remember Me, in which his character Tyler falls in love while trying to get over the suicide of his brother. Robert took the part because he felt a close bond with Tyler, admitting he wishes he was more like his on-screen character in real life.
“I related to Tyler in that I wish I could have done things like he did when I had the opportunity. There is something quite satisfying about being a little bit more reckless and even fighting. It's quite cathartic to just sort of randomly start hitting someone. It was fun kind of, letting all your rage go on the set,” he said in an interview with Parade. “We had this big scene where I punch out some guys. It went fine and nobody was really hurt at all. But, at the end, I was like doing this thing where I was hitting myself in the arm, sort of pumping myself up. They cut it out of the movie, but I punched myself so hard that I was in a lot of pain for the rest of the shoot. It was the most stupid thing I've ever done."
Robert is no stranger to the pain of punches – he regularly got into fights when he was a youngster. He always used to think he was picked on by mean older boys, but recently starting having a new take on the situation.
"I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, but I always thought the assaults were unprovoked,” he admitted. “It was after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor, or how I thought an actor was supposed to be, and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me."
The actor recently admitted he is dating his Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, ending months of speculation about their relationship.
He has now revealed he doesn’t feel “confident” with the idea of romance, claiming Tyler is much better at chatting to members of the opposite sex than he is. He always worries he will make a fool out of himself, so tends to “hold back”.
“I don't even remember the last time I asked someone out on a date, like, just went up to them and that's the first thing I did. I'm much more self-conscious and not wanting to fail,” he said.