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Robert Pattinson gets naked for new role

He says crew members watched and giggled during his graphic interlude

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updated 7:30 p.m. ET March 13, 2009

NEW YORK - Robert Pattinson says he wasn’t prepared to film his first sex scenes for the upcoming period drama “Little Ashes.”

The “Twilight” actor 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.”

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The British heartthrob says he wanted to try “something weird,” but the part was more difficult than he’d anticipated.

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

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