At least he now knows that stubble is not always nice !!!

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.”