15 Unexpected Facts About Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson is known as the vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga. You might also remember him as the hottie Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But he’s so much more than that. Those are just his 2 mainstream roles when really he’s been making much more interesting and creative movies for a while. He’s also completely unlike his most famous characters in real life. Here are some things you probably don’t know about Robert Pattinson.

1. When Robert Pattinson was filming Twilight he was forced to wear contact lenses to make his eyes that golden color. He called them orange blobs and said that they stopped him from seeing clearly and made his eyes feel very uncomfortable. He also credits his intense stare in the movie to his contact lenses cause he has to concentrate more to see the person through the lenses.

2. He comes from a rather unusual family. If you want to know where Robert Pattinson is from – he was born in London. He has two older sisters. His mother worked in a modeling agency and his father’s job was fixing up vintage U.S. cars. Sounds quite bohemian, so it’s not exactly surprising that he went into acting.

3. You might still think of him as Edward Cullen, the ageless teen from Twilight or teenage Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter but do you know how old Robert Pattinson is? He’s actually 33 now. And just in case you were wondering how tall Robert Pattinson is – he’s 185 cm.

4. There’s been a lot of rumors about Robert Pattinson’s personal life. We all remember the time he was dating his co-star Kristen Stewart. But who is Robert Pattinson dating now? Well, he’s currently in a relationship with actress and supermodel Suki Waterhouse.

5. Pattinson doesn’t take interviews very seriously and when he was promoting a movie called Water For Elephants he made up a story about how when he was a child he saw a clown die. When it later came out that he lied and completely made that up his only defense was “I don’t know why I said that!”