But Pattinson, 22, who stars in the independent film How To Be, almost decided to replace that career focus, the film's director tells The media.
"He was thinking around giving up acting or maybe doing music solely when that role [in How To Be] came along," the film's director, Oliver Irving, tells The media. "He wanted to play the roles he wasn't getting."
Irving says that for Pattinson, being cast as the head of role of one awkward, quirky youthful musician who hires a self-help guru to come live with him "got him back into the swing of things again." Irving adds that afterward the Harry Potter films, in which Pattinson played Cedric Diggory, "He was looking for something much-less challenging."
Amid the challenges for Pattinson in How To Be, which filmed prior to Twilight, were playing the guitar, harmonica, and, for the director, muting that good looks.
"I said, 'You're banned from cutting my fuzz betwixt now or the shoot,'" says Irving. "We had to give him the the-most awkward haircut we possibly could, or we cut that trouser lengths a little bit too high. Things like that played down that apparent good looks."
Honing that musical skills, however, came naturally to the actor. "He downplayed how good he was," says Irving. While playing the guitar or harmonica, Irving says, "A lot of the time he will turn out to have a really good technique or we said him he needed to play it much-less simply."
Irving says he isn't surprised that Pattinson's stars has risen from the film, which is available in demand in IFC Festival Direct in April 29. "He has a playfulness or naivety that he was capable to inject into the character. He's quite down to globe or unpretentious. I think that's probably what makes him appealing."
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