She lights up cigarettes one after the other. Her slender legs in gray skinny jeans, an oversized t-shirt, and on her feet, Converse sneakers. She’s seated, with her legs curled under her on an antique armchair in a suite of the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. Kristen Stewart, nineteen years old, is not the type to greet you with a smile. Rather, to the contrary, she offers a small scowl. Interviews are not, frankly, her cup of tea, thanks to the paparazzi who’ve turned her daily life into that of a laboratory rat. As the opening of the second film in the Twilight Saga, “New Moon”, approaches, where [Stewart] plays the role of Bella, the heroine (en pleine idylle impossible avec Edward, a 104-year-old vampire played by Robert Pattinson, she is now, more than ever, the object of obsession amongst fans, and the tabloids. Even her parents’ home (where she seeks refuge when she has nothing left in her own fridge), is under the shadow of the paparazzi lenses! Even the smallest of gestures between her and her co-star [Pattinson] are blown out of proportion into rumors about their real life relationship, [even gracing the cover of People magazine]. The two stars don’t travel on the same flights nor arrive together for press events, at the risk of creating riots. As a result, Kristen, a young adult* naturally more (efarouchee quéxtravertie), plays again, in her real life, with a sharp tongue. “I don’t live very well among this craziness. It’s absolutely crazy. I can’t even leave my hotel room,” she grumbles. "No one really ever warned me that my private life would become a spectacle unto itself.”But she's totally aware of the Hollywood codes. Kristen Stewart grew up in Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, renowned for its cool attitude and hot-bod surfer boys. Ever since she was a kid, she's been immersed in the film industry, with a script-supervisor mother and an assistant producer father. But it was Kristen, who at the age of 5 years old, begged her parents to let her become an actress. Her parents took her at her word, and allowed her to be home-schooled in order to devote herself fully to her work. It worked out pretty well for her. At the age of just nineteen, she has the filmography of someone in their thirties; an impressive 23 films only eight years into her career! Supporting roles, certainly, but along with big names like Jodie Foster (Kristen played her daughter in Panic Room). Their resemblance is uncanny: they have the same feline quality about them, with a slightly turned-up nose and green almond-shaped eyes. Even the same body-type, delicate and slightly androgynous. Kristen followed her debut with a small role alongside Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid in Cold Creek Manor and subsequently with Robert De Niro in What Just Happened. Above all ,in 2007, she plays a brazen hippie in the sublime "Into The Wild" directed by Sean Penn. During a few scenes shot right out of the desert, right in the middle of trailers, she even upstages Emile Hirsch, hero of this initiatory journey. "I obviously feel extremely lucky to have worked with Sean Penn. He makes you feel like there is no one else for the role except you, and gives you such great confidence that you can't help but give everything you have,” she recalls of the experience. “He doesn't talk a lot and gives you a lot of rope. But, when he does give you direction, it is with such strong conviction that it could actually throw you across the room."
How did she put on the role of Bella in Twilight? "I wasn't a fan, I hadn't read the books, she confesses. "But I immediately fell in love with the character reading the script, there's something bewitching about Bella. In "New Moon", she goes through a very dark time. During the shooting in Vancouver, I withdrew into myself and molded myself into this obscure atmosphere. I would listen to "Shadowplay" by Joy Division and "Blow It All Away" by Sia over and over again. This perfectly fit the mood Chris Weitz had imagined for the movie."
Like her cult character – the one that even her lover Edward cannot understand completely (she is the only one whom he cannot read her thoughts) - Kristen Stewart is an introvert, who is as much unreadable as she is intellectual/cerebral. She is one of those who would play her guitar on her own during an evening in her hotel room (she just finished the shooting of a movie about rock star Joan Jett and she interpreted all the songs by herself) or read for hours. “Outside of movies, my passion is writing. It was one of my English professors that showed me the power of words. I realized how much I took pleasure in writing. This has nothing to do with an actor’s job, where, in the contrary, the thought needs to be very clear before you start and where you don’t have the time to be philosophical! When I find a script, I scribble and leave notes/references everywhere and after that, I forget about them.” She’s also always carrying a small notebook where she writes down her thoughts, “vignettes” she calls them. Her favorite author? “Henry Miller. He is dark, tough and serious, and he speaks about himself without pretention.” Lastly, it's perhaps because she's grown up in a bath of sequins that Kristen Stewart rebels so much against cultural codes.
Her life after “Twilight?” She hasn’t thought of it yet (3 more movies are already planned to finish the adaptation of S.M.’s novel). She said she leads her life based on feeling. At this time, ironically, she fantasizes about a large scale escape: “I dream of going one day to Australia, where my mom is from. To rent a car and hit the road. Over there, people don’t get bothered by the small things. There's not this absurd pressure to succeed or to force yourself to be someone else. You’re not obligated to belong to any preconceived notion/stereotype.”
The translated interview is thanks to audreyp01 alonelilylanded itsmenala
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