PEOPLE.COM: WHY ROB PATTINSON ALMOST GAVE UP ACTING
People.com has a great interview with the director of How To Be, Oliver Irving. Oliver talks about how Rob Pattinson almost quit acting.
For many Twilight fans, it’s hard to imagine life without Robert Pattinson after his brooding performance in the 2008 film.But Pattinson, 22, who stars in the independent film How To Be, almost decided to change his career focus, the film’s director tells PEOPLE.
“He was thinking about giving up acting and maybe doing music solely when this role [in How To Be] came along,” the film’s director, Oliver Irving, tells PEOPLE. “He wanted to play the roles he wasn’t getting.”
Irving says that for Pattinson, being cast as the lead of role of an awkward, quirky young musician who hires a self-help guru to come live with him “got him back into the swing of things again.” Irving adds that after the Harry Potter films, in which Pattinson played Cedric Diggory, “He was looking for something more challenging.”
Among the challenges for Pattinson in How To Be, which filmed prior to Twilight, were playing the guitar, harmonica, and, for the director, muting his good looks.
“I said, ‘You’re banned from cutting your hair between now and the shoot,’” says Irving. “We had to give him the most awkward haircut we possibly could, and we cut his trouser length a little bit too high. Things like that played down his apparent good looks.”
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(Thanks Erica and Em!)
I actually got to meet Oliver Irving at a film festival screening of How To Be that both Oliver and Rob attended. If you ever get a chance to meet Oliver, he is a very, very nice guy. This is a brilliant movie, and I’m sure glad it kept Rob in the acting business!
Do you plan to watch How To Be? What did you think of what Oliver Irving had to say?
