Robert Pattinson has shared an important life update with fans: he no longer smells of crayons. The Mickey 17 and Twilight actor made the bizarre confession in a February 2020 interview with Allure, stating that “lots of people” told him that he smelled like the waxy kids’ colouring tool.
He was asked about that confession in a new interview with GQ, and said he no longer smells like crayons, adding that he believes the change in smell is due to a spiritual rebirth.
“I think that something has changed,” he said. “My body chemistry has changed. It’s very strange. But I 100% used to smell exactly like a crayon.
“And it’s weird, you become less scented as you get older, I think. I don’t really notice my smell anymore. I used to have a very particular, pronounced smell. Yeah, a crayon-y one.
“Before that, it was quite a kind of vicious, vicious scent. And then something, I think, when it became crayon-y, it was like something died.
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“I guess the seven-year cycle…. Maybe I was smelling of crayons when one self died, and when a new self was born, it was less scented.”
He added: “I don’t smell anything now. It’s so weird. I have to get a lot to smell anything at all. Which I don’t understand. You can be going to the gym and stuff, I’m like, ‘Okay, I don’t smell anymore.'”
When he was asked if his lack of ability to smell could be down to having COVID, the actor agreed that it might be the case.
“Yeah, it’s like, you just can’t even smell. It’s just blank!” he said. “I actually did lose my sense of smell for a bit and it took me months to realise that I’d lost it. I have it back now… I think.”
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Is he being serious, or is he just chatting nonsense again? He has famously admitted to making things up in interviews to keep himself amused, but if anyone is going to smell like crayons, Pattinson seems a believable choice.
Elsewhere in the interview, the actor – currently filming Here Comes the Flood, as seen above – when asked what he could reveal about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, he stated: “I saw a sheep.”
