Jack Whitehall considered Robert Pattinson for Bad Education Movie

He's long played up the fact that Robert Pattinson was his schoolmate – and his envy at his Twilight success – for laughs on stage, and now comedian Jack Whitehall has revealed that he almost approached the British actor to star in his brand new film, The Bad Education Movie.
"There's a part in it he would have been perfect for," the 27-year-old tells Hot Press. "But I felt a bit bad sending a script to him after all of the things I've said – even though they'd all been in jest. We have in the script, my scourge from school, Atticus Hoye, who's a figure I've talked about a lot in the series – he plays the boy who bullies me in school and we finally get to see him in the movie.
"He's played by Jeremy Irvine from War Horse. Jeremy's really funny, he's very good. He hadn't done much comedy before but in this he plays 'the Great Gatsby of Cornwall', as he's described in the script, a real shit. He's very good."
Pattinson is currently busy filming The Lost City Of Z along with Sienna Miller, and Possibly thinking about marrying FKA twigs.
In the current issue of Hot Press, you can read about Whitehall's nerves ahead of his first-ever big screen role, how he could have been Harry Potter if he had bothered to read the book, and much more.
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The Bad Education Movie is in cinemas from Friday August 21