Robert Pattinson claims he didn’t enter a supermarket for six years because of his Twilight fame.
Speaking to NME magazine, the actor openly discussed how uncomfortable he was being in the spotlight.
“I had people sitting outside my house every single day, and it drove me crazy,” Pattison told British magazine NME.
Pattinson starred as the mysterious vampire Edward Cullen, opposite Kristen Stewart’s heroine Bella Swan, in the wildly popular films. The franchise spawned five movies over the course of five years, keeping the limelight on Pattinson and his costars. But, things have changed a bit in the years that followed, according to the actor, who says he didn’t go to the supermarket “for about six years.”
The perils of fame: Robert Pattinson has admitted playing the leading role – Edward Cullen – in The Twilight Saga meant he was unable to visit a supermarket for six years
“But now I can go in and chat to the guy who’s working there about his kids, or where he’s going on holiday, and not be thinking, ‘Is he gonna sell me out?’” Pattinson said. “I just don’t have to think about that stuff anymore.”
Robert Pattinson’s next film, Life, finds the actor starring as photographer Dennis Stock, who profiles a young James Dean (played by Dane DeHaan) for Life magazine.
Camera-shy: The multi-award-winning actor still isn’t comfortable with paps photographing him in his everyday life. Here he is pictured on the set of Twilight: New Moon in Montepulciano, Italy, in 2009
Ok, so I think that being with the ultimate whiner (Twigs) has made him one too. Wow, talk about being ungrateful. If he truly does read these and other posts he would have learned that him being the humble and “approachable” actor is really what drove his fans to him. If he didn’t want this attention he could have listened to his handlers when they told him how to deal with fame. You do not see this type of behavior for other famous people like the Brad Pitt’s, George Clooney’s Taylor Swift’s or even Justin Bieber’s for that matter. I for one am truly disappointed by his words and actions. He can close up shop and go away, and all his accomplishments can be forever tainted with his “ungrateful and whiney” behavior, topped off with his “drunken hangovers”, how “PROUD” I am to have been someone who liked his adult work. (sarcasm)
If he’s stupid enough to feel that way, and apparently he is, then he should stay out of the United States, and don’t send his movies over here either. He doesn’t need to be making money off our people. What a dunce.
Wow, his “fans” express pure vitriol just because the guy would like to be able to exit his home or go to the grocery store unmolested?!?! WTF It’s not stupidity or ingratitude to express the desire to be able to reside in one’s home without some creep pressing their face to your living room window.