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Robert Pattinson's strip vow

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-17 15:56

Actor Robert Pattinson, star of the new film "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" poses at the film's Los Angeles premiere November 16, 2009. [Agencies]

Robert Pattinson would get naked on screen for the right role.

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The British actor - who plays vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the 'Twilight' movies - would consider taking his clothes off if he thought the part required it.

He said: "I think it would depend on what it is. And I don't think a lot of people would really want to see that. I think it would ruin the illusion!"

Although he would be prepared to strip for a movie, the 23-year-old star admits he finds nudity embarrassing and struggled when he had to shoot explicit scenes for the 2008 movie 'Little Ashes', in which he played a young Salvador Dali.

He said in an interview with Britain's Star magazine: "It's funny because Spanish people have no problem with nudity at all, and I mean at all. And English people obviously do have the most enormous problem with it.

"Little things, like when I saw my father getting changed for swimming, I was traumatised by it... I kind of freaked out a bit."