Actor Robert Pattinson had a terrifying first-time circus experience - one of the clowns died on stage when a stunt went awry.
The Twilight actor plays a runaway who joins a travelling circus in his new movie Water For Elephants, and he admits the film role brought the awful memory back.
During an appearance on the Today show on Monday (18Apr11), Pattinson explained, "The first time I went to a circus, somebody died. One of the clowns died. His little car exploded, the joke car exploded on him. Everybody ran out, it was terrifying."