Robert Pattinson's Gay Scene Anguish

Robert Pattinson had a painful experience filming gay love scenes with Javier Beltran for upcoming movie Little Ashes, they both refused to shave during the shoot.

The Twilight heart-throb portrays bisexual Salvador Dali in the film, which details the artist's relationship with Federico Garcia Lorca, played by Beltran.

And in a bid to make their love scenes as awkward as possible, the pair sported prickly stubble when they puckered up.

Pattinson says, "We both refused to shave before doing it...it's very uncomfortable in terms of scratching each other with our stubble, it made me feel sorry for women.

"I wanted to do (gay love scenes) to break down what I thought I could do, but Dali is incredibly self-conscious throughout the movie so I thought all the nude scenes and stuff worked with me being nervous anyway."

Robert Pattinson's Same-Sex Kiss...DId He Like It?

Little Ashes director Paul Morrison discusses the sex scenes between Robert Pattinson and Javier Beltran in the forthcoming film about Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca:

"I think they were difficult, but I think all sex scenes are difficult, and for all actors of all ages. And I find them difficult, certainly, to direct, and ... you have to get very intense about them, and as a director be clear as to what you're looking for so they know that they're acting and they're not doing it, and I think Rob probably found it harder than Javier, to draw the line between performance and, ah, but that was also in the nature of the part, that Dali's sexuality was so complicated, complex and mysterious, I think even to himself, and his fear of sexuality, and if you're playing that role, that kind of rubs off on you, so I think sex and pain were so closely entwined with Dali that to play those scenes is also hard, and the triangle sex scene is an unbelievably difficult scene. One of those scenes in everybody's life when you're doing something and you know it's really really wrong, it really, it goes against the grain, but you're doing it, so playing that scene is hard, it's always hard."

Both actors have also spoken on this topic.

Said Beltran: "We didn't have any problems with the sexuality. On the set it was less important than the emotions. The sex scenes are beautiful—tragic and painful."

Said Pattinson: "And here I am, with Javier [Beltrán], who plays Lorca, doing an extremely hard-core sex scene, where I have a nervous breakdown afterward. And because we’re both straight, what we were doing seemed kind of ridiculous. (Now he’s sort of laughing.) Trying to do it doggie-style. Trying to have a nervous breakdown while doing it doggie- style. And it wasn’t even a closed set. There were all these Spanish electricians giggling to themselves."

Little Ashes opens in limited release on May 9th.

Watch below a clip from the kissing scene between Robert Pattinson and Javier Beltran.

Robert Pattinson Struggled Through Nude Scenes

Robert Pattinson struggled through nude scenes in Salvador Dali biopic Little Ashes and blames his English upbringing for making him so uptight.

The Twilight heartthrob plays the Spanish painter in the movie and admits scenes in which he had to strip down and show off his naked body were tough to shoot.

Pattinson tells Moviefone.com, "It's funny because Spanish people... have no problem with nudity at all, and English people obviously do have, like, the most enormous problem with it.

"It's like little things, like when I saw my father getting changed for swimming (and) I got, like, traumatised by it."