Despite being scrubbed from most corners of the internet, a 2010 interview with Robert Pattinson for Details Magazine has resurfaced that makes racially insensitive comments about ‘negros’.

While the interview has been deleted, screenshots of it have been posted to Twitter. During the exchange, Pattinson’s interviewer Jenny Lumet, who is a black journalist, first brought up the comparison of ‘negros’ and journalists’.

“Rob, did you know that every time you say actor or acting you lower your voice to a whisper?” Lumet asked the Twilight star.

“I do?” Pattinson replied.

“Yes, so quietly it’s like you’re saying negro,” she said in response.

To which Pattison reportedly said, “What is we were acting like negroes?”

“Then we’d be fucked… We couldn’t hear anything…” Lumet said.

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There are conflicting reports surrounding whether it was Lumet or Pattison that said the last line. Some screenshots say that it was actually Pattinson that said, “What is we were acting like negroes? Then we’d be fucked… We couldn’t hear anything…”

A Twitter user also reports that Lumet actually had/has a fund that she worked for or helped set up named, “The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students”.

The word negro is a very offensive term used to describe those of Black African heritage and is considered a racist insult, or slur.

Although the report is yet to be officially confirmed surrounding how the offensive word was used, Twitter users are already taking to Twitter to call for Pattinson to be cancelled.

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