Robert Pattinson Talks About Filming Gay Scene

Now in new career territory, Robert Pattinson recalls toughest acting moment.

We reported yesterday on Robert Pattinson's spilling the bills on how he pursued Kristen Stewart during Twilight filming. Based on an interview he's just given, it sounds like Pattinson's role in the Salvador Dali film Little Ashes wasn't quite as easy to, uh, get into.

In the film, Robert Pattinson played Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. As part of the storyline Pattinson's character falls for the Spanish writer Frederico Garcia Lorca, whom Javier Beltran portrayed. The two take part in an intimate scene that Robert Pattinson hoped would grow his career, but in the heat of the moment, he says it wasn't the easiest thing for him to play off: "We were both straight, but [Javier Beltran] was Spanish, so much more confident about being naked and stuff." (Pattinson has also said that Spanish people "have no problem with nudity at all, I mean at all, and English people obviously do have, like, the most enormous problem with it." So funny!)

In turn Robert Pattinson has insisted that he's straight (we don't question it!) and has said that filming the gay scenes in Little Ashes (which debuted at international film festivals in 2008 and 2009) was very "uncomfortable."

Meanwhile, he only has eyes for Kristen Stewart, as he revealed in yesterday's story how hard he pursued her from when they first began filming Twilight.

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