Hollywood heart-throb Robert Pattinson has revealed he will have no style qualms about wearing a hat with corks on it next time he works in Australia.

The Twilight actor joined co-star Guy Pearce at the BFI on London’s Southbank at a special screening of new film The Rover, which was shot in the Australian Outback.

Directed by David Michod, The Rover is set in a dystopian world 10 years after a global economic collapse. Pattinson and Pearce play two down-and-outs thrown together in the fight for survival.

Pattinson said: “It was really in the middle of nowhere – it wasn’t even like Ayr’s Rock, touristy Outback. There’s nothing at all. I don’t even know what people were doing out there, I think it was opal mining or something. It’s not really something you can find good advice on.

“I realised the hats Australian people wear with the corks on... I thought that was just for the look, but it’s actually to keep away flies and it worked very well.”

But native Australian Pearce insisted he felt at home there: “It was fine for me, I love it. The heat, all the things that are supposedly difficult – the isolation, the heat and the flies and all that sort of stuff – to me it all adds to the unique nature of being out there.”

The Rover opens in UK cinemas today.