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GQ is getting all of the great interviews in their new issue. First it was Michael Steele’s whiplashing discussion of the origins of gayness, and now in, another GQ interview, Twilight’s Robert Pattinson talks about getting naked and having gay sex for his new film Little Ashes and fucking little Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers. About Little Ashes:

“In a lot of ways,” Pattinson says, “I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.”

See, Little Ashes contains a fair amount of homoerotic activity . . . It’s the kind of project you could imagine a guy in Pattinson’s place taking on post-Twilight as a way of telling the world he’s versatile and/or fearless. Except it wasn’t.

“I thought I’d never get another acting job again,” Pattinson says. “So I was like, ‘Yeah—why not try to do something weird?’ There’s all these gay sex scenes. And y’know, I haven’t even done a sex scene with a girl, in my whole career.”

“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.”

He’s pretty sure the only reason Little Ashes is getting any kind of promotional push is that he’s in it.

“It’s nothing,” he says. “It would never have been released. I mean, that’s a terrible thing to say, but this was a movie where we didn’t even have stand-ins! We were scrambling, the entire time. We didn’t even have trailers.”

He hasn’t actually seen the finished film. He says he hasn’t seen any movie he’s been in since the Potter movies—not even Twilight.

Oh, and Li’l Joe Jonas? When asked if there was anything else he’d wanted to talk about in the interview, Pattinson says, “Okay. I fucked Joe Jonas. I love him.”

Perhaps not so randomly, Pattinson is also a musician, and two of his songs, including the Jeff Buckley–ish ballad “Never Think,” appear on the Twilight soundtrack.