This week it's official: Robert Pattinson is back in the news. After a couple months of post-New Moon hiatus, Pattinson's back on red carpets and in the glossies as Remember Me gets ready to release (clip here). All this Robert Pattinson coverage thrills us, of course, but something he said in the 10th anniversary issue of Details is not being well received...
This was the same finger-licking feature in which Robert Pattinson posed with two naked women and then said he was "allergic to vagina." That didn't raise eyebrows (especially after he confirmed his Kristen Stewart romance over the weekend) as much as did a comment Pattinson made in conversation with the feature writer Jenny Lumet.
Lumet asks Rob whether he knows how self-conscious he is when he utters the word "actor": "Rob, did you know that every time you say actor or acting you lower your voice to a whisper?"
"I do?"
"Yes, so quietly it's like you're saying Negro."
Lumet says Rob laughs and lightens up. "What if we were acting like Negroes?" Then we'd be f-cked--we couldn't hear anything."
When I read the interview, I knew this would come up and I'm only surprised it took a week after the issue's release. A blogger at the San Francisco Chronicle wants to know what problem Robert Pattinson has with people of African descent: "No one should suffer the indignity of reading an interview with a major star and feel placed on the 'outside' of society because that star makes a statement that implies the 'other', or 'Negroes', are less than the mainstream in society ... It must stop."
In the context of the interview, it doesn't necessarily read as racist; although perhaps the interviewer's choice of metaphor to illustrate Rob's whisper was in bad taste. Of course Details must be happy for the soundbyte -- and we still recommend you read the interview. Nobody writes like this anymore.
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