Yahoo Lifestyle Why Robert Pattinson Wants Life to Be Like 'Clueless': 'I'm Very Anxiety-Prone'
Just because Robert Pattinson has done some daring things on screen doesn't mean he's a fan of taking risks in real life.
The 38-year-old actor recently opened up to Vogue, in an interview published Monday, about stepping outside of his comfort zone to perform a challenging motorcycle stunt as part of a new ad campaign for Dior Homme Parfum.
“I learned how to ride a motorcycle for Batman, so when Dior asked if I could ride, I said yeah," Pattinson told the publication. "Well, I could sort of ride a motorcycle-ish. But even trying to even start a motorcycle in wet sand is literally impossible. I just thought, ‘I’m going to die on this.'”
“If the Dior man can do this easily, well it's very impressive,” he joked.
Pattison admitted that he's not so adventurous when he isn't in front of the camera.
“I'm very anxiety-prone, I don't like driving fast in real life at all,” he said. “I can't even parallel park! I need it to be valet-only like in Clueless. But there's something about my pride that comes out when I'm being filmed. All of a sudden, I'm like ‘yeah, I can drive 120 miles an hour through this tiny little gap.’”
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Pattinson explained that, fortunately, his upcoming film Mickey 17 didn't require him to pull off any particularly complicated tricks.
“It's the kind of stunt where you're just hurting yourself a lot. It just involves falling off ledges and being uncoordinated. It's really in my wheelhouse," he said.
According to Pattinson, he's become even less interested in risking physical injury since welcoming his daughter with Suki Waterhouse in March 2024. He's also changed his tune about the way babies smell.
“I remember people used to be like ‘oh, don’t you like the smell of babies,' but I thought they were just smelling the baby powder," he said. “But then I had a baby, and I was like ‘my baby smells incredible.’ There's something there, I can identify her. She doesn't smell like other babies.”
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