Interview: Robert Pattinson Wins Over Female Co-Star With Candy

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 06:20

Written by Lupe Haas

The Twilight Saga star romances Reese Witherspoon in WATER FOR ELEPHANTS but it wasn't the Oscar winning-actress that won him over to the film adaptation of Sara Gruen's novel.  It was love at first site when Robert visited Tai, the 42 year-old female elephant, who was to play Rosie the circus elephant, prior to signing on to the movie.  Robert was "not scared at all" to meet the nine thousand pound animal and was sold on the movie immediately after watching Gary Johnson, the trainer, give the command to Tai and four other elephants to sit.  They all sat down "like a dog," he said.   "Basically I decided to do the movie at that point. I hadn't even read the script."

The on-set romance blossomed between Tai and Robert, although he finds the whole term "on set romance" a bit unnerving.  "It sounds really disturbing... like you've been flirting with the elephant," he told CineMovie at a recent press conference with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz.   He later confessed that he won over the "huge beast" using some tricks up his sleeve ...or more accurately, tucked under his shirt.

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