Kristen Talks To OK! about Twilight
THE ‘TWILIGHT’ STAR ON HER ROCKER ROLE AND HER ‘GREAT FRIEND’ ROB
KRISTEN Stewart must have the best job in the world – she stars as Bella Swan in the Twilight saga and gets paid to have Robert Pattinson swoon all over her.
And while there is plenty of on-screen chemistry in Twilight and the upcoming New Moon, there are rumours that the duo are more than just co-workers.
However, Kristen, 19, insists: ‘Rob and I are great friends. But I understand why you would assume that, when we lean on each other for support, there must be something more… And I’m not criticising anyone for thinking it either. If anything, they’re really perceptive because they can see a closeness.’
Indeed, a closeness that led to the pair being spotted smooching recently while at a gig together in Vancouver.
And 90210 star Jennie Garth, whose hubby Peter Facinelli stars in Twilight, also fuelled the rumour mill when she was asked who Robert was involved with on set and replied: ‘I can’t say. That will be breaking my promise to my husband. But I do know.’
Robert, like Kristen, also denies there being a romantic link, saying last week: ‘I don’t have a girlfriend. I don’t know why. You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens.’
So while Kristen chooses to be cagey about her love life, perhaps it’s because her family all work in showbiz too and she knows the pitfalls. ‘My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter.
My dad’s a director. So it’s like, at heart, I’m a below-the-line girl,’ she says.
The actress is also a hard-working girl and has been back-to-back filming and publicising New Moon, to be released later this year, and a movie based on the life of the ’70s band the Runaways, for which she won the coveted role of Joan Jett.
Here, Kristen talks about her latest projects, why vampires are sexy, her image, and why she can’t wait to complete the Twilight saga…
What’s it like to be working on one of the hottest movie sequels?
It feels good. It’s so funny. Everyone feels like we’re nervous about the pressure and having approval, but this art form is so subjective anyway that to have… just to say: ‘I love this book. I’m obsessed with it.’ And then: ‘Well, yeah, me too.’ Everything is better if you’re on some sort of common ground. It’s like fire. There’s nothing better than sharing passion. This is so far out of our scope of what’s going on in our head when we’re shooting a movie.
People are also crazy about the books…
Yeah, it’s very easy to become obsessed – it’s a very push-and-pull build, like a crescendo.
Why are vampires so sexy?
Well, classically they’re meant to draw you in, just to the point where they have you in a complete submitting state to where they can kill you. So that’s a bit sexy, to give yourself to something to accept, to let something take over. It’s forbidden fruit, something you can’t have but you want more.
Has being a child star benefited you?
Yes! It’s funny that you ask that because I think that if I had started now or just a couple years ago, after the age of 14, if I had waited two more years, I would be wrought. I couldn’t deal with the scrutiny. I feel like starting out as a teenager may not have been as good. I conquered fears at a young age because I wasn’t considering them,
I just took them for whatever…
Insecurities?
Yeah and just like over-analysing your place, like why am I doing this? Why are these people asking these questions? Why do they care? Yeah, I think that if I was a little bit older I would have
over-thought it and stopped and been done.
You worked with Jodie Foster on the movie Panic Room. What did you learn from her?
It was my first experience watching her and I think it shaped me. It put the first ideas in my head, like that’s the way. I mean, she’s not the kind of person to sit there and give off advice, but she’s been a good, strong influence.
You’re playing legendary rocker Joan Jett in the biopic The Runaways. What preparation have you done?
I’ve been trying to immerse myself in that music scene, not in the scene, but just to educate myself about it.
You’re a huge icon for young girls now. Are you worried about leading them astray with your rock ‘n’ roll depiction?
Joan is such a remarkable role model for any young girl, I mean she was the first female to start a record label. She was so young, like, if not 18, I think she was in her early twenties. She’s an activist, she’s a feminist, she’s a great role model.
Do you feel sad that the Twilight saga will end in two more movies?
I can’t wait to be finished because when I start a movie initially, I’m dying to get it done. It’s like I’m thinking about something all the time and I want to go through the experience. I want to do the scenes and I want to make sure we do them right. Usually I have six weeks and at the end of that we will have made our product. I mean, we’ll have gone through everything that we wanted to. But, in this case, I have to wait literally years. So I’m waiting to get it done.
You star with Dakota Fanning in both The Runaways and New Moon. Have you worked with her before?
No. I’ve always loved what she’s done, she’s like very controlled and poised. And then, in terms of her actual work that she makes, it’s always so different, and she’s going to rock this. Talk about abandon, she’s going to have to lose herself in this because it’s really… pretty heavy.
Interview by Judi Davidson with OK!
KRISTEN Stewart must have the best job in the world – she stars as Bella Swan in the Twilight saga and gets paid to have Robert Pattinson swoon all over her.
And while there is plenty of on-screen chemistry in Twilight and the upcoming New Moon, there are rumours that the duo are more than just co-workers.
However, Kristen, 19, insists: ‘Rob and I are great friends. But I understand why you would assume that, when we lean on each other for support, there must be something more… And I’m not criticising anyone for thinking it either. If anything, they’re really perceptive because they can see a closeness.’
Indeed, a closeness that led to the pair being spotted smooching recently while at a gig together in Vancouver.
And 90210 star Jennie Garth, whose hubby Peter Facinelli stars in Twilight, also fuelled the rumour mill when she was asked who Robert was involved with on set and replied: ‘I can’t say. That will be breaking my promise to my husband. But I do know.’
Robert, like Kristen, also denies there being a romantic link, saying last week: ‘I don’t have a girlfriend. I don’t know why. You always think you’re going to get more girls after you’ve made a movie and it never happens.’
So while Kristen chooses to be cagey about her love life, perhaps it’s because her family all work in showbiz too and she knows the pitfalls. ‘My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter.
My dad’s a director. So it’s like, at heart, I’m a below-the-line girl,’ she says.
The actress is also a hard-working girl and has been back-to-back filming and publicising New Moon, to be released later this year, and a movie based on the life of the ’70s band the Runaways, for which she won the coveted role of Joan Jett.
Here, Kristen talks about her latest projects, why vampires are sexy, her image, and why she can’t wait to complete the Twilight saga…
What’s it like to be working on one of the hottest movie sequels?
It feels good. It’s so funny. Everyone feels like we’re nervous about the pressure and having approval, but this art form is so subjective anyway that to have… just to say: ‘I love this book. I’m obsessed with it.’ And then: ‘Well, yeah, me too.’ Everything is better if you’re on some sort of common ground. It’s like fire. There’s nothing better than sharing passion. This is so far out of our scope of what’s going on in our head when we’re shooting a movie.
People are also crazy about the books…
Yeah, it’s very easy to become obsessed – it’s a very push-and-pull build, like a crescendo.
Why are vampires so sexy?
Well, classically they’re meant to draw you in, just to the point where they have you in a complete submitting state to where they can kill you. So that’s a bit sexy, to give yourself to something to accept, to let something take over. It’s forbidden fruit, something you can’t have but you want more.
Has being a child star benefited you?
Yes! It’s funny that you ask that because I think that if I had started now or just a couple years ago, after the age of 14, if I had waited two more years, I would be wrought. I couldn’t deal with the scrutiny. I feel like starting out as a teenager may not have been as good. I conquered fears at a young age because I wasn’t considering them,
I just took them for whatever…
Insecurities?
Yeah and just like over-analysing your place, like why am I doing this? Why are these people asking these questions? Why do they care? Yeah, I think that if I was a little bit older I would have
over-thought it and stopped and been done.
You worked with Jodie Foster on the movie Panic Room. What did you learn from her?
It was my first experience watching her and I think it shaped me. It put the first ideas in my head, like that’s the way. I mean, she’s not the kind of person to sit there and give off advice, but she’s been a good, strong influence.
You’re playing legendary rocker Joan Jett in the biopic The Runaways. What preparation have you done?
I’ve been trying to immerse myself in that music scene, not in the scene, but just to educate myself about it.
You’re a huge icon for young girls now. Are you worried about leading them astray with your rock ‘n’ roll depiction?
Joan is such a remarkable role model for any young girl, I mean she was the first female to start a record label. She was so young, like, if not 18, I think she was in her early twenties. She’s an activist, she’s a feminist, she’s a great role model.
Do you feel sad that the Twilight saga will end in two more movies?
I can’t wait to be finished because when I start a movie initially, I’m dying to get it done. It’s like I’m thinking about something all the time and I want to go through the experience. I want to do the scenes and I want to make sure we do them right. Usually I have six weeks and at the end of that we will have made our product. I mean, we’ll have gone through everything that we wanted to. But, in this case, I have to wait literally years. So I’m waiting to get it done.
You star with Dakota Fanning in both The Runaways and New Moon. Have you worked with her before?
No. I’ve always loved what she’s done, she’s like very controlled and poised. And then, in terms of her actual work that she makes, it’s always so different, and she’s going to rock this. Talk about abandon, she’s going to have to lose herself in this because it’s really… pretty heavy.
Interview by Judi Davidson with OK!
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