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Thursday February 26, 2009

Robert Pattinson’s first acting job was playing Reese Witherspoon’s son in the 2004 film Vanity Fair.

The British actor – who became a household name after starring as vampire Edward Cullen in the recent Twilight film – played the character of Rawdy Crawley alongside the Legally Blonde star.

And Pattinson, 22, says it was his first foray into professional acting.

He reveals, “My first job I was playing Reese Witherspoon’s son and I hadn’t done any acting in school.

“I wasn’t in a drama school or anything. You turn up on set and I’d done one amateur play and you kind of end up doing a film with Reese Witherspoon and you have a trailer and stuff. It was the most ridiculous thing.

“And I was thinking, I should be an actor. I’m doing a movie with Reese Witherspoon. How is this happening? I don’t know what I was thinking then. I never really thought about for the audience.

“It’s an excuse, it’s the one job where you can do whatever you want and people have got to accept it. If you went in an office and said I need to punch out some windows to do this database, you’d get fired. But you get a lot of slack as an actor. You can just go nuts all the time.”