Ein tolles, tolles Interview :)
Kristen spricht u.a. über ihre Rolle als Bella; davon, dass sie eigentlich gar nicht froh ist "tschüss" zu sagen, OTR und mehr.
Since her career rocketed into the stratosphere with the first
“Twilight” film in 2008, Stewart has frequently been portrayed in the
media as serious or sullen, intensely private and uncomfortable with
giving interviews. But spend a few minutes with the 22-year-old, and it
becomes apparent that nothing could be further from the truth. Seated in
the corner of a Beverly Hills hotel restaurant in a simple white
T-shirt and a baseball cap just days before the release of the final
“Twilight” installment, “Breaking Dawn: Part 2,” Stewart seems at
complete ease. She is thoughtful and warm; despite having only met once
in passing six weeks earlier, she instantly recognizes and greets her
interviewer with a friendly hug. She’s got a sharp sense of humor. And,
for the record, “I actually like giving interviews!” She elaborates, “Given
that I can talk to a hundred or more people at a press junket, at some
point there is going to be something brought up that makes me see things
I never considered. It’s fascinating to talk to so many people about
one of the most important things in your life.”
Stewart is also an actor, and a good one at that, a fact that seems
to get lost in all the media attention devoted to her personal life. But
before “Twilight,” her talent was obvious to the likes of David
Fincher, who cast Stewart at age 10 to play Jodie Foster’s daughter in
“Panic Room,” and Sean Penn, who handpicked her to appear in his 2007
film “Into the Wild.” There are also her acclaimed turns in the indies
“Speak” and as a young woman with a neurological disorder in 2007’s “The
Cake Eaters,” a performance so convincing people would always ask
director Mary Stuart Masterson where she had found an actor with the
actual disease. Next month will see Stewart in one of her most
challenging roles to date, as 16-year-old free spirit Marylou in “On the
Road,” director Walter Salles’ screen adaptation of the beloved Jack
Kerouac novel.
Stewart actually met with Salles in 2007 after the director caught
her performance as a melancholy teen in “Into the Wild,” but it took
several years for the film to get made. It’s time that Stewart is
grateful for. “The role was so beyond me at that point,” she
says. “I loved the character, and I would have done craft services to be
involved with that movie. But I drove away shaking because I was
thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I think I’m going to get the job, and I don’t
know if I can do it!’ ”
Playing someone as uninhibited as Marylou, who romances both her
boyfriend, Dean (Garrett Hedlund), and the film’s protagonist, Sal
Paradise (Sam Riley), required Stewart to be exposed, figuratively and
literally. The nudity didn’t intimidate Stewart, who played a stripper
in 2010’s “Welcome to the Rileys,” though she knew it was something the
media would latch on to, anticipating headlines like “ ‘Twilight’ Good
Girl Bares All!” says Stewart, “I know it’s an odd thing to say,
but it didn’t worry me. I really do love taking walls down. I didn’t
want to hide, especially as Marylou—she’s the last person who would
hide.” As it turns out, it was a simple dance scene that frightened Stewart the most. “But whenever I had doubts, I was able to talk to Walter, and all my apprehensions went away,” she says. She starts to praise her director at length before stopping herself and saying, “What can I say—he’s fucking awesome.”
Salles has nothing but kind words for Stewart in return. “Kristen is a
seriously talented actress who’s going to surprise us many times in the
future,” the director says in a phone call from Brazil. “She has the
possibility to do pretty much whatever she wants, and she opts for roles
that are very courageous choices—characters you might not expect her to
play.”
While “On the Road” might seem like an attempt to break away from her
“Twilight” image, that’s another misconception about Stewart; unlike
many actors associated with a popular franchise, she’s not interested in
putting Bella Swan behind her. “Other people try to distance me from her, but not me,” she says. “I’ve said it a hundred times before: I love Bella.”
To that end, she admits to getting frustrated when people label the
character as weak or passive; it does seem a faulty argument,
considering how many times Bella takes action that endangers her life to
fight for what she loves. “If Edward and Bella switched places,
he would be viewed as someone to admire, someone who just lays
everything on the line,” she says. “It takes such a strong person to
completely subject yourself to something and give yourself over to
something so wholly. It’s an equal relationship; they both give the same
amount, so why is she condemned for it? I don’t get it.”
Aside from this year’s blockbuster “Snow White and the Huntsman,”
Stewart has gravitated largely to independent fare between “Twilight”
films, like playing Joan Jett in “The Runaways” or holding her own
opposite Melissa Leo and James Gandolfini in “Rileys.” But “Twilight”
has much more in common with those scrappy indies than people think; the
first film was not a guaranteed hit when she signed on, just a modestly
budgeted movie with unknown actors from an unproven studio. “It’s funny how people forget that,” Stewart says. “If I don’t look elated in a paparazzi photo, people say, ‘Well, you signed on to this!’ Well…not really, all right?” Stewart can pinpoint the moment she began to realize what the film would become. “It
was at Comic-Con, when we were literally hit with the energy of 6,000
people like a brick wall in the face. That was the moment I went, ‘What
the fuck is this going to be?’ ”
No one could have anticipated the phenomenon it would become, let
alone Stewart, who tries to take the scrutiny and attention in stride.
Which brings us to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the erotic publishing
phenomenon that began as “Twilight” fan fiction. Has Stewart read it? “Not
really—I’ve skimmed parts of it,” she says. “When I read the first few
pages describing her messy hair, I was like, ‘This is so strange.’ ” Stewart can’t resist an uninhibited laugh, adding, “But
it’s just so raunchy! I mean, obviously, everyone knows that. But when I
see people reading it on planes and stuff, I’m genuinely creeped out.
Like, you’re basically just reading porn right now! Get that blanket off
your lap!”
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