‘Good Time’ Directors Deny Robert Pattinson’s Wild Story, PETA Investigating

In the words of Ron Burgundy, “That escalated quickly.”

Last night, Robert Pattinson stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to promote “Good Time,” and in the course of the interview, related a rather wild story about a scene he claimed was cut from the film, in which he…..manually pleasures a dog. The tale was made even more outrageous when the actor claimed that instead of using prosthetic, directors Josh and Benny Safdie wanted him to do it for real (Pattinson drew his line in the sand with that).

“There’s this one scene we shot— there’s a drug dealer who busts into the room, and I was sleeping with the dog and basically giving the dog a hand job,” the actor explained to the late night host.

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“It was a character thing. I asked the trainer [about it] because the director was like, ‘Just do it for real, man! Don’t be a pussy!’ And the dog’s owner was like, ‘Well, he’s a breeder. I mean, you can. You just gotta massage the inside of his thighs.’ I was like, ‘Just massage the inside of his thighs?!’ I didn’t agree to do the real one, so we made a fake red rocket,” Pattinson added.

As you might expect, it didn’t take long for this story to catch fire online, however, according to the Safdies, none of this actually happened.

LOL this is NOT true. https://t.co/t71LJR1Xdo

— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) August 4, 2017

So, either Pattinson convincingly told a helluva fish tale, or someone is covering their behind. Either way, never one to let a PR opportunity go to waste, PETA is now on the case and promising to investigate. Here’s their official statement on the matter:

PETA depends on actors and crew members to come forward when they see mistreatment, whether it involves a dog who is being forced into churning water on the set of A Dog’s Purpose or an A-list actor who is being asked to molest his canine co-star. Robert Pattinson is our kind of guy (and everyone’s who has a heart) for refusing to masturbate a dog—which is like child molestation—and for talking about it so that the public can see that once again animal trainers’ top priority is money and animals’ interests and well-being are often ignored. PETA is currently investigating whether the law was broken in this instance.

“Good Time” opens on August 11th.