10 Biggest Lies Actors Told To Get Movie Roles

9. Robert Pattinson Covered An Employment Gap With A Fake School Backstory

Sin City
Summit Entertainment

If you're ever asked about a gap in your employment history, what should you do? Be honest and say that you simply couldn't find any work? Or fabricate a lie to fill in those blanks? If you're Twilight's Robert Pattinson, then you go the latter route.

After playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pattinson's movie work quickly began to dry up. Travelling to Los Angeles to try and make it big, the actor was faced with questions from all the casting directors he met with, who wanted to know what he'd been up to for the past couple of years.

But instead of being honest with them, he told the The Mirror that he opted for a more deceptive reply, stating that he'd been studying at several prestigious British schools:

“I’d say, ‘Oh, I was at Rada’ – if you’ve got an English accent you can get away with it. I’d say I went to Oxford, too. I did it for years. But it didn’t work when loads of English people started moving to Los Angeles. So then I pretended to be American for a bit."

Considering that Twilight propelled him to stardom and he was recently cast as frickin' Batman, we'd say that this small lie paid off in a big, big way.

Contributor
Contributor

WhoCulture Channel Manager/Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture. Can confirm that bow ties are cool.