Which Role Made Robert Pattinson Admit ‘My Orgasm Face Is Recorded for Eternity’?

ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS

• After Twilight — and before The Batman — Robert Pattinson made a string of small, independent movies.
• One role in Little Ashes actually made the new Bruce Wayne actually think about quitting acting when his “orgasm face” was recorded for “eternity.”
• But Little Ashes was just the beginning of multiple roles that asked Pattinson to pleasure himself.

Robert Pattinson has returned to the world of box office blockbusters, starring as Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. After finding global fame with the role of Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise, the actor avoided big-budget films and turned his attention to indie flicks.

But Pattinson says that one of those smaller roles nearly forced him out of the movie business because he had to masturbate on screen. He admits that his “orgasm face is recorded for eternity.”

Robert Pattinson has a different take on Bruce Wayne in ‘The Batman’

Pattinson’s version of Bruce Wayne isn’t the social, playboy billionaire fans have seen in previous Batman films. Instead of showing up at charity events and parties to keep up his persona and hide his alter ego, Pattinson’s Caped Crusader is an isolated figure with a focus on vengeance who has no public life. The actor says that this change made it easier for him to get into character

“When you think about Bruce Wayne, you kind of think he’s a playboy, and then that’s how he disguises himself, so no one knows he’s Batman. As soon as you take that away, it made the character almost make more sense,” Pattinson told Entertainment Weekly.

“There’s something about a person who would be able to delineate three incredibly distinct personalities, and then just be able to switch them as an outfit at will. That’s really way more sociopathic than someone who doesn’t really have much more control over it and is compelled to put this suit on. It’s kind of out of his control a little bit.”

He admits that his ‘orgasm face is recorded for eternity’ thanks to a previous role

Pattinson does not practice method acting — a technique that requires emotional identification and complete immersion into a role, both on and off camera. He says that he respects the practice, but it’s not for him.

However, Pattinson admits that in certain situations it’s necessary to go full method on-screen. Case in point, the 2008 film Little Ashes where he played surrealist artist Salvador Dali and “pleasured himself in front of the camera” for real. He later admitted that the role made him think about changing careers.

“I once decided to quit acting; it was when I did Little Ashes. I played Salvador Dali and had to do a lot of scenes where I was naked, and I also had to masturbate. I mean really. My orgasm face is recorded for eternity,” Pattinson said, per HuffPost.

He then noted that faking something like that “doesn’t work, so I pleasured myself in front of the camera.”

Robert Pattinson has repeatedly pleasured himself on camera

Little Ashes was just the first time, though, that Pattinson had a masturbation scene in a film. In 2019’s The Lighthouse his character pleasured himself while thinking about a mermaid figure. And these scenes just keep happening.

“I keep masturbating,” Pattinson said, per Men’s Health. “In the last three or four movies, I’ve got a masturbation scene. I did it in High Life. I did it in Damsel. And The Devil All the Time. I only realized when I did it the fourth time. But when I saw the clay figure of the mermaid, if you’re getting turned on by that, you’re in a very strange place in your life.”

The Batman is now playing in theaters nationwide.