Robert Pattinson faked his accent at auditions

During a panel at Cannes Film Festival, director Josh Safdie - who is at the helm of Robert's new film 'Good Time' - said: "You were telling me that story about how you'd go to auditions with your Denver accent, because you just did not want anyone to know that you were British-born."

To which Robert further explained: "I would do an impression. I would have another character to go to an audition to play a different character."

It comes after Robert admitted he is a "manic" person.

Speaking about his role in 'Good Time', he revealed: "I don't know how much of it was really me other than being really manic. No one really sees that. That's a private thing. I'm someone who just stops at a red light and I'm just revving ...

"Because we were shooting guerrilla style, I was so nervous [about] people finding out about the shoot and paparazzi being there. It destroys the illusion of it. What I was doing as a person was feeding into the character, trying to disappear, trying to be a ghost in the crowd."

Robert and the make-up team also experimented with a set of different looks beforehand and decided that adding some fake scars to his flesh would put fans off track.

He added: "We experimented with a few different things. You've got these pock marks in the skin and no one recognises you. We shot the movie on the streets of New York, and no one took a cell phone photo."