Robert Pattinson: 'Naked stuff' with male co-star was uncomfortable

Robert Pattinson: 'Naked stuff' with male co-star was uncomfortable

Actor Robert Pattinson was wracked with nerves while filming a gay sex scene for new Salvador Dali biopic Little Ashes - because the entire crew was watching, including a group of workmen.

The much talked-about actor Robert Pattinson says he wasn't prepared to film his first sex scenes for the upcoming period drama "Little Ashes".

Pattinson portrays Spanish artist Salvador Dali as a young man. He tells GQ magazine's April issue that he was uncomfortable as crew members watched and giggled during his graphic interlude with a male co-star.

"In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing," he said. "I had to do all this naked stuff."

British heartthrob Robert Pattinson says, he wanted to try "something weird", but the part was more difficult than he'd anticipated.

The "Twilight" actor has found a way to take the edge off before: Pattinson says he took a quarter of a Valium pill before his "Twilight" audition.

The Twilight hunk portrays the Spanish surrealist artist in the forthcoming movie, but admits the toughest part of the job was having to strip off for the intimate tryst on an open set.

He tells GQ magazine, "(The hardest part was) trying to do it doggie-style. Trying to have a nervous breakdown while doing it doggie-style. And it wasn’t even a closed set. There were all these Spanish electricians giggling to themselves.”

The project is one of three Dali biopics in the works. Al Pacino will play the artist in Dali & I: The Surrealist Story, while Antonio Banderas is set to star in another tribute film.