2/28/2010

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It may be a bit jarring to see Kristen Stewart so far away from Forks, but at least her new co-star is best friends with Rob Pattinson! Eddie Redmayne and Kristen team up in The Yellow Handkerchief, a film about a road trip through post-Katrina New Orleans. In the movie, Kristen hops in a car with two strangers... and the rest you'll just have to see for yourself!

What made you want to play this part?

Kristen: When I read the script it was one of those things that you get really excited about and then instantly really sick because you're not sure that you've got the part. I was sort of undeniably emotionally moved by it and I think just regarding the person that I played, she makes such a comeback. I feel like in the beginning she's so clearly disappointed in everything around her and that first time you see her she's rejected and that's what she's running from.

Can you identify with the whole teenage runaway attitude that you have in the film?

Kristen: I feel like [running away] was so not thought out. It's a pretty courageous thing to do to get in that car. And especially for a young girl, it can be considered silly. But I can identify with her in that she is doing something that is dangerous but that will ultimately be absolutely worth it. I can absolutely relate to that.

You guys must have spent a lot of time in the car. Any funny stories from filming?

Eddie: [For the scene] when we hit the [deer], we had a load of crew in the back with lights and all this stuff. And I had to do this screeching break as we hit this thing and I was like, "Be careful because I am screeching this car..."

Kristen: Again and again you said it.

Eddie: "...It's gonna be quite a jolt when we stop." And they said "No problem, man, no problem." And we did the scene and they cut to me and I break the car and I scream and this guy got all bruised out of the back! And I'm like, "I told you man, I told you."

Kristen, your character is into ballet in the movie. Did you have to take any ballet classes to prepare?

Kristen: Yeah. Something that was initially really daunting about the character was that she loved to dance and that she really used her physicality as a means of control and power. Before I did this movie I don't think I did a two-step. So I took some ballet lessons from these really hardcore ballerinas, but what I always thought about the character was that she wasn't really one to take a class. She sort of was like, "I really wanna do that." So then I didn't have to say that I was a trained ballerina, which I would never ever be able to accomplish in the two weeks that we had before we started shooting.

Eddie: Remember how obsessed you became with your dance shoes, though? Jazz pumps. You became obsessed.

Kristen: I have like, 16 pairs of these little white Capezios.

Eddie's character plays around with a disposable camera in the movie. Did you keep any souvenirs of the photos you took?

Eddie: We did, actually. The photos used in the scrapbook in the movie are ones we took of Kristen doing her dance.

Your characters are cut off from the outside world once Kristen's phone dies. Do you ever turn off your cell phones just to see what happens?

Kristen: I always turn my phone off and really infuriate a lot of people.

In the movie, a big storm hits and it's rainy and gloomy for a while. Have you ever lived in that kind of climate?

Kristen: I haven't had crazy weather... Wait a second -- what am I talking about? I just made three films in the Pacific Northwest. I know the depression that is the cold west.

So does the dark weather really mess with your mood?

Kristen: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's sort of undeniable. If you're cold for three months and you're always trying to stay dry...

Eddie: It's interesting, though. In London we used to have horrific weather. But when I came to LA, the expectation is for continual sunshine. You expect it to be the perfect Hollywood dream and when it's not, it can be mildly depressing.

Have you learned anything interesting about each other since you spent so much time together?

Kristen: There's nothing interesting to learn about this guy.

Eddie: There's nothing interesting to learn about her.


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Kristen Stewart away from the 'Twilight'

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It's not all about mooning over cute vampires and werewolves.

Between the "Twilight" episodes that have made her a superstar, Kristen Stewart has been furiously tackling real-world roles in character-driven independent films.

One, "The Yellow Handkerchief," made two-and-a-half years ago before all the Bella/Edward/Jacob (and Kristen/Robert/Taylor) hysteria commenced, finally hits theaters today - in no small part because of the now 19-year-old actress' massive name recognition.

In March we'll get "The Runaways," the story of L.A.'s all-girl proto-punk band in which Stewart plays Joan Jett to Dakota Fanning's Cherie Currie.

And the Sundance Film Festival was just wowed by another small-scale drama, "Welcome to the Rileys," featuring Stewart as an underage prostitute who bonds with a couple grieving the loss of their own daughter.

Sounds like she's trying to establish some gritty indie cred to compensate for the ridiculous success of the overwrought horror romances? Not according to how Stewart sees it.

"It's really important for me to make movies that make me feel like `The Yellow Handkerchief' made me feel," says Stewart, sounding self-assured and far less daunted by her exploding popularity than a lot of media speculation would have us think. "And `Twilight' did the same. I mean, it turned out to be this huge thing, but that's not something that you knew going in was going to happen.

"So I'm not choosing roles to

try to 'break out.' I make what I'm comfortable with, and if I like it."

In the very low-key "Handkerchief," Stewart plays another variation of the troubled teenager to whom she's so often drawn. Martine is a small-town Louisiana girl who, after a bad scene with a popular local boy, agrees to go for a ride across the river with an irritating but ardent young drifter (English actor Eddie Redmayne). Mainly for protection, she invites a seemingly kind but mysterious older man (William Hurt) who is also passing through town to ride along with them.

The odd trio gradually makes a road trip through the hurricane-battered state down to the Gulf, where Hurt's Brett may or may not find a last chance to get his life in order and the rudderless kids may discover direction for theirs.

"I could relate to Martine in that she's so, sort of, the typical girl that really wants to be out there and smiling and totally in the middle of whatever's going on, but has been embarrassed one too many times and has gone, `I can't do that anymore,"' Stewart observes. "I also feel like she's isolated herself by putting herself above everyone else. She can't talk to people because they've let her down too many times. She realizes, through this journey, to open her eyes and look at people."

Though she says she relates, it's hard to imagine Stewart ever being shamed into giving up. Sure, she suffered rejection like any child actor does. She was infamously blackballed from Disney Channel shows for being too naturally defiant, but she also co-starred with Jodie Foster in her first big movie, "Panic Room," by the time she was 11.

A Valley girl and proud of it, Stewart credits her professionalism and perseverance to a good upbringing by her Woodland Hills-based parents, a television producer dad and script supervisor mom.

"It was wonderful when I went to Kristen's folks' place to see a real home that is, like, one generation nurturing another," co-star Redmayne marvels, as if such phenomena couldn't occur in superficial L.A.

Even when she was a kid, the actress always had a noticeable depth, if not the confidence she displays now.

"Kristen was so nervous the first time she auditioned," recalls "Handkerchief" director Udayan Prasad. "She wasn't even 17 when I met her. But there was something very focused about her, very centered.

"She knew herself in a way which was actually quite intimidating. She was this young girl who was so sure of life in a way that I still don't think I'm sure of life."

That tension between determination and fragility is amply displayed in "The Runaways," which the actress views as a tribute to another young L.A. woman who didn't have half the advantages Stewart enjoyed coming up in show business.

"I don't think that the Runaways are something that a whole lot of people know about, but I think that everybody knows who Joan Jett is," Stewart reckons. "But it was really, really hard to become that icon. I don't know, she's like a pilgrim. She was the first woman to ever start a record label, but even before that, because it was the '70s, nobody wanted to see a girl be that strong and play electric guitar and play it that loud.

"People should know where that came from. I've grown up feeling very entitled, like I can do whatever I want. But she didn't have that."

Jett was a producer of "The Runaways" film and was on set every day.

"It was initially intimidating, just meeting her," Stewart admits.

"Then I subsequently realized that I would feel like such a fraud if she wasn't there. How would I have known any details without her? I just would have felt like I was doing an impression with black hair.

"I didn't want to just mimic her, I wanted to understand what she was going through."

And that was quite a lot, according to the movie: sexual and pharmaceutical experimentation; fights within the band, with its handlers and rowdy audiences; finding, maintaining and making a going concern of her own artistic voice.

In her role as Jett the pioneering rocker, Stewart is a long way from chastely obsessing over the sensitive bloodsucker and the hunky wolfboy. But "Twilight" fans needn't worry.

As much as her creative drives keep pushing her toward increasingly challenging roles, Stewart is committed to seeing the fantasy franchise through to the end.

The third movie in the series, "Eclipse," comes out this summer.

Production begins in the fall on the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's fourth and final "Twilight" novel, "Breaking Dawn," most likely as two separate films, although Stewart says she hasn't been definitively informed that that's going to happen yet.

"The story so completely warrants two films," she says like the most avid adolescent Twihard. "It would be really disappointing to have to lose this scene and this sequence and this scene and this sequence. I, personally, would like to do it as two movies. But to be perfectly honest, I don't know what they're going to do."

The actress is equally in the dark about whether or not her legion of fans will grow to follow her down the more mature path she's blazing in her other work. If you think that's going to stop Stewart from continuing to explore, you haven't learned anything about her.

"I don't have this scheme of how people are going to receive my movies in the order that I do them," she says. "Or why I do scary movies and why I do movies about disaffected teens all the time. They're just people that I really wanted to play. I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I'm just playing parts that speak to me."

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Slate Reviews 'The Yellow Handkerchief'

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Kristen bites back

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Twilight star Kristen Stewart looked every bit the messy teenager as she trundled up to claim the rising star award at the Baftas. "Nobody told me there was going to be, like, fuckin' royalty," she told me afterwards.

A blend of awkward ingenue and seasoned pro, Stewart turns 20 in April and hopes it heralds a new era. "I seem to play disaffected teens, but then how else you gonna be at that age?" As a rising star juror, I risk protocol to tell her she was included on overall acting merit, Twilight phenomenon aside. She sighs a thank you. "I am grateful to my fans for voting, but I wish Twilight wasn't so rampant, then I could have judged myself against the others on a more level playing field."

She will soon be seen playing Joan Jett in The Runaways – "I had to do that movie quickly cos I was getting too old" – before heading back to Oregon for the next two Twilight movies. Before that, however, she's presenting at the Oscars with her buff werewolf co-star Taylor Lautner. Will he keep his top on? "That's funny. You're funny," she says, not laughing.

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How Jodie Foster Helped Kristen Stewart Nab Her Role in 'The Yellow Handkerchief'

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So how much of a role did Jodie Foster have in getting a then-largely undiscovered Kristen Stewart her part in "The Yellow Handkerchief?"

Producer Arthur Cohn told journalists that Foster "urged" him to sign the pre-"Twilight" Stewart for the movie which only just opened in theaters on Friday.

"Nobody wanted me to take (Stewart) in the part of Martine, she was practically an unknown," Cohn told the press at "The Yellow Handkerchief's" press day. "But Jodie Foster, a close friend, urged me to take her."

"So I took her."

He repeated the same thoughts in the film's official press notes which state that Foster "recommended" Stewart for the part. "I followed Jodie's advice because she's a great actress and director," Cohn is quoted as saying in the notes.

Indeed Cohn and Foster are friends. And Foster and Stewart have had a mutual admiration thing going since Foster played the mother to the child actress in "The Panic Room."

But when questioned about the Foster connection for "Handkerchief's" casting, Stewart told journalists it was the first she had heard of it.

The film's director Udayan Prasad says it was actually Kristen's knock-out audition at the Chateau Marmont that attracted his attention immediately and let to her casting in the movie starring William Hurt and Mario Bello.

"She has a terrific presence Kristen does," he tells PopEater. "She walked into the room. You just sensed something, like who is that person?

"Art [Cohn] probably talked to Jodie Foster after we had met Kristen."

Indeed, a source close to Foster tells PopEater that it was Cohn who brought up the idea of casting Stewart during a phone conversation. "Arthur was the one who mentioned Kristen and Jodie said, 'Oh my God she would be great,' " says the source. "It's wasn't her idea."

"But Jodie did say that Kristen would be really good for it."

So clearly, Stewart brought her own cake to the audition and Foster provided the icing.

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