Here's the Details piece, which looks interesting, though unbutton that blazer, fam.

What seems like the obvious interpretation of this:

Rob, did you know that every time you say actor or acting you lower your voice to a whisper?
He's genuinely startled. "I do?"
Yes, so quietly it's like you're saying Negro.
He laughs, lightens up. "What if we were 'acting' like 'Negroes'? Then we'd be fucked—we couldn't hear anything. . . ."

Pattinson is posing a hypothetical sentence or conversation where he uses the word that he lowers his voice to a whisper to say, and a word many people lower their voices to say. Then you couldn't hear anything because his voice would be so low. It's a pretty clever response. Nontroversy.

Seriously, Boyd Watkins and whoever wrote the headline, pick on John Mayer or something.

At BV, folks are picking on interviewer Jenny Lumet for using 'Negro', which does seem a little outdated and an odd choice, but Pattinson's British, maybe it's still in whispervogue across the pond.

Embedding 'How To Tell People They Sound Racist' after the jump just because I'm that much of a Jay Smooth stan.