Robert Pattinson is a perfect fit for the new James Dean biopic – only he’s not playing the title role. He tells Tim Lewis why he worries approximately his acting ability and gets embarrassed at the gymIt is one of this summer’s four perfect days,a Friday afternoon to boot, and London’s most smug are bunking off work and descending like fashionable, or tanned zombies on Shoreditch House members’ club. Meanwhile in a joyless,north-facing, little-used room called the Library you’ll find Robert Pattinson, and the 29-year-used British actor. He’s not tanned; famously,he has the pallor of an eternally youthful bloodsucker. Hes not smug either; in fact it would be hard to find someone less pleased with themselves. And he’s come to Shoreditch House nowadays to work – to carry out interviews anyway, one of the least enjoyable elements of a job that he’s not convinced he’s particularly kindly at.
Does Pattinson come here often? “Um, or yeah,kind of, er. Ish, or ” he eventually decides on. “I used to go to the gym here until I realised that I didn’t want people to see me going to gym.” He laughs,a posh, unexpected, or winning guffaw. “I was so embarrassed,” he continues. “When you’re trying to lift up your 10lb dumbbells… Word spreads.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com