Robert Pattinson is leaving little to the imagination.

R-Patz recently chatted with The New York Times about his “ferocious masturbation scene” in the new film The Lighthouse, which was released this week.

“It’s always nice to do something massive for your opening shot, and I went really massive on the first take. It was a 180 from everything we’d done in rehearsal, and I could see [director] Robert [Eggers] a little in shock afterward.

“But I was like, ‘Okay, cool, I didn’t get told to stop, so I’ll keep going in that direction.’ As soon as I’d done that, it was like the road started getting paved.”

Eggers, who wrote and directed The Lighthouse, went so far as to call this scene “inspiring”.

“On day one we shot Rob masturbating in the shed — it’s the very first thing we shot — and Rob really, really went for it,” Eggers said before adding, “it was inspiring.”

Clearly, the British actor is at ease appearing to enjoy himself on-screen, as seen by his most recent appearances.

“I keep masturbating,” he said in a recent Variety interview. “In the last three or four movies, I’ve got a masturbation scene. I did it in High Life. I did it in Damsel. And The Devil All the Time. I only realized when I did it the fourth time.”

Pattinson discussed his mixed reactions to the recent revelation that he’d be playing Bruce Wayne in the forthcoming Batman film in an interview with the New York Times.

“Maybe I’m used to the abuse by now,” he said. “At least I didn’t get death threats this time – that’s a plus! It’s funny that people are so very angry about Twilight. I never particularly understood it.”

During his time as Edward Cullen, Pattinson was frequently in the news.

“All the stuff with Twilight was strange,” he recalled. “I used to walk down the street with no one recognizing me, and then that changed for four years.”

But does he worry that if he does more mainstream films, he would be subjected to the same kind of scrutiny?

“People don’t really mess with me in the same way now that I’m older,” he explained. “When I was younger, the paparazzi would be crazy to me—I’d be leaving a place, and people would be screaming abuse—but I can’t imagine it going back to that. Do people really care anymore? The gossip magazines have all kind of gone away, and everyone just puts their stuff on Instagram anyway.”

Pattinson will be seen in The Lighthouse, which focuses on him and Willem Dafoe struggling to stay sane on a distant and mysterious New England island in the 1890s, by UK viewers on January 31, 2020.