Robert Pattinson came close to quitting acting in favour of pursuing his love of music, according the director of his new movie.
Oliver Irving says that the Twilight heartthrob considered a career change after playing Cedric Diggory in two Harry Potter movies because he wasn't being offered "challenging" roles.
But luckily along came Irving's independent film How To Be, which allowed Rob to showcase his acting rather than his good looks.
"He was thinking about giving up acting and maybe doing music solely when this role [in How To Be] came along," says Irving. "He wanted to play the roles he wasn't getting."
Bagging the lead role of Art, an awkward teen who hires a self-help guru to come live with him "got him back into the swing of things again," the director tells People.
As well as having hide his chiselled features under a dodgy haircut, Rob was required to tone down his musical talents while playing the guitar and the harmonica in the movie.
Says Irving: "He downplayed how good he was. A lot of the time he would turn out to have a really good technique and we told him he needed to play it more simply."
