‘It felt so dorky!’ Robert Pattinson on his unique way of holding a wand in Harry Potter

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11 Feb 2022, 15:09

It turns out there’s no one way to hold a wizard’s wand - and Robert Pattinson learnt that the hard way!

He starred as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movie The Goblet of Fire back in 2005, and while Cedric was a rising star in the wizarding world, it didn’t stop Rob feeling ‘dorky’ while playing him. 

While chatting to GQ for their Most Iconic Characters segment, the Twilight star revealed he changed up the way he held his wand to feel a bit more like an action movie. 

Rob admitted “I remember holding a wand and thinking it felt so dorky to hold it like a magic wand. So I'm holding it like a gun, with two hands, like I'm in a Die Hard movie.

"I think I had one eye closed when I'm looking down its kinda 'viewfinder'."

On his turn as Cedric, which he lovingly described as the ‘head of the Hufflypuff [sic] clan’, he also revealed the improvisation he brought to the character.

“It was definitely my concept to jump out of the tree at the beginning for my entrance which I then repeated later on in Twilight.” Rob admitted. 

“For some reason I always have the suggestion to be like ‘why doesn’t he just appear jumping out of a tree?’”

Robert’s Harry Potter appearance kept him going for a few years before he landed 2008’s first Twilight film. He turned to music next, but never managed to get off the ground as an artist, so it was handy when the Vampire story came around. 

He explained: “I spent a lot of time living off the Harry Potter money. I moved to an apartment in Soho in London. 

“I really thought I was going to do music at that point. I don’t know where I had the kind of belief in that because there was absolutely no one saying there was a music career on the table. 

“I was doing a lot of gigs all the time, I was constantly doing open mics all the time. I ran out of money basically. I was definitely going in the wrong direction in terms of a career up until Twilight.”

This hilarious revelation comes just a few days after R-Patz confessed to loving ‘playing freaks’ on the big screen ahead of his turn as Batman. 

Speaking to Total Film, the Lighthouse star admitted he kept "obsessively" checking what was going on with the role for a year before, which baffled his team.

He admitted: "Even my agents were like, 'Oh interesting, I thought you only wanted to play total freaks?' And I was like, 'He is a freak!'" 

The Batman swings into cinemas on 4 March.