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Robert Pattinson hated using contact lenses in Twilight

Posted by Team Boxwish on 06 January 2009 at 12.51PM

We love the gorgeous fashions in teen phenomenon Twilight. From the stunning blue dress as worn by Bella (Kristen Stewart) to the effortless elegance of vampire beau Edward (Robert Pattinson), but it seems that it wasn’t such fun for the cast. One in particular. The film, a box office sensation on both sides of the Atlantic has made an (almost) overnight star of Pattinson and yet the Brit has one painful memory of filming the Stephenie Meyer story – wearing contact lenses. “Wearing coloured contact lenses… It was like I constantly had sand in my eyes,” he grumbled in an interview with OK! magazine. Good job they didn’t give him fangs to wear as well.

“I was wearing them for three months constantly and my eyes never ever accepted them,” he adds. “It took me 20 minutes per eye every single day and I ended up having to literally fold it into my eyeball.” It wasn’t just a physically uncomfortable experience but also a hindrance to his onscreen performance believes the new Hollywood heartthrob. “It was frustrating as well because normally your eyes are saying something, but if you’ve got two orange blobs in your face it’s so annoying! The director [Catherine Hardwicke] would say “Look at her [Kristen Stewart] like you love her,” and I’d be like, “I’m trying!”“

Chin up Rob – you weren’t the only cast member to don the lenses. Each of the actors playing Cullens had to wear Topaz coloured ones, while Kristen Stewart also had to sport them to swap her naturally green eyes for the brown of her character Bella. Let’s hope they have some soothing eye drops to hand when shooting starts for the Twilight sequel, New Moon soon.

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Comments (2)

Oh boo hoo! I'll trade places with him if he wants and take the money, the fame and all the screaming girls if the only downside is wearing some contact lenses.

Posted by Bruce Wayne on 06 January 2009 at 02.13PM
Actually contacts can be a real nightmare to get used to if you've never worn them before.

Posted by BettyBoop_1 on 07 January 2009 at 05.30PM