Robert Pattinson (left) said that doing the gay sex scene gave him a case of stage fright. -- PHOTO: SHAW
HOLLYWOOD - STAR of the teen flick Twilight, Robert Pattinson is set to break some young hearts when he stars as Salvador Dali in the new movie, Little Ashes.
The 22-year-old will be seen in an explicit gay sex scene with his co-star, Javier Beltran who plays Lorca.
However the young heartthrob said in a report on website www.ninemsn.com that doing the gay sex scene gave him a case of stage fright.
"Here I am, with Javier, who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hard-core sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward," he told GQ magazine said reports on Tuesday.
"And because we're both straight, what we were doing seemed kind of ridiculous.
"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.'
