Robert Pattinson ‘terrified’ of deep fakes

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Robert Pattinson Dior Fall 2023 Menswear Collection - Photocall
Robert Pattinson attends the Dior Fall 2023 Menswear Collection on December 03, 2022 in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images For Christian Dior)
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Robert Pattinson finds deep fake videos of himself โ€œterrifyingโ€.

The โ€˜Batmanโ€™ actor is unnerved by the fact even people close to him have been taken in by โ€œweird dancing videos on TikTokโ€ that have used artificial intelligence to put his face onto someone elseโ€™s body and he joked they are so convincing, he could end up without a job.

He told ES Magazine: โ€œItโ€™s terrifying. The amount of people who know me quite well and will still be like, โ€˜Why are you doing these weird dancing videos on TikTok?โ€™

โ€œItโ€™s really bizarre. You just realise that weโ€™re two years away from it being indistinguishable from reality โ€” and what on Earth am I going to do as a job then?โ€

The 36-year-old star isnโ€™t a big fan of dancing in public but thought he had โ€œbroken [his] curseโ€ after strutting his stuff in his latest Dior Homme advert โ€“ only to find he had a panic attack as soon as he attempted to bust a move at a party.

He said: โ€œI thought Iโ€™d broken my curse when I did that scene [it involves Pattinson performing an exuberant, freewheeling shimmy]. But then I went to a party a few weeks later โ€” thinking Iโ€™m like Billy Elliot and as soon as I took one step on to the dance floor had one of the biggest panic attacks of my life.

โ€œYou know when you think youโ€™re that guy and then suddenly, youโ€™re just brutally humbled. Yeah, it felt like my dad had just caught me joy riding a car.

โ€œI went cold; I think I left the party after that.โ€

Meanwhile, Robert admitted he is constantly worried about not getting hired again so feels like he has to constantly keep working.

He said: โ€œThereโ€™s just something in me which runs very, very deep and it makes the idea of taking a holiday seem like an impossibilityโ€ฆ I find myself going, โ€˜No, I have to keep working, I have to keep working all the time, this might be my last opportunity, Iโ€™ve got to save for a rainy day.โ€™

โ€œItโ€™s genetic. My dad was always bad at taking holidays. Heโ€™d always love it but I remember even as a very young child, thereโ€™d always be tears the night before โ€” heโ€™d say, โ€˜Just go without me, just go without me.โ€™ โ€œ


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