Chapter One: The Question
Robert Pattinson. Twilight. Getting naked in indie movies. Fame.
These are some of the things we won’t be talking about with Kristen
Stewart. “Oh, good.” says the actress, slightly taken aback when we give
her the good news. We’re sat on the roof terrace of a hotel – heavily
populated on the ground floor by security guards – and it’s week two of
Cannes Film Festival. Only 22-years-old, Stewart is being afforded the
kind of elite protection from the media usually reserved for Hollywood’s
biggest megastars. But we don’t really want to ask her about that
either.
In fact, LW Lies only has one question: what does Kristen Stewart
want to talk about? “Right,” she says. Then she thinks. “I don’t want to
sell myself. People are so weird. They suddenly find themselves so
interesting that they think they’re worth selling. Typically speaking,
the most interesting thing to me about myself is, right now, the fact
that On the Road is coming out. And I want to talk about On the Road.
Chapter Two: On the Road
To talk about on the road is to discover that, although people ask
Kristen Stewart a lot of questions, the answers all lead to one place.
It’s really simple: she’s a 22-year-old kids who’s crazy-stupid in love
with her job. “Oh my god, I fucking love it so much,” she beams. “I’m
not Maryloul; I’m Sal. Right now, I feel so full. I’m like, bursting. I
should be working. I don’t want to take a break. It’s funny, on set, I
don’t have to go to the bathroom, I don’t have anything wrong, I’m
perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I’m not hungry. I’m literally
not even in my own body. They wrap and they send me back to my trailer
and I fucking fall to pieces. I suddenly realise that I’ve had to pee
for six hours. And I’m starving.”
This kamikaze work ethic left her co-star Chris Hemsworth dumbfounded on
the blockbuster Snow White and the Huntsman. Why, wondered the Aussie
heartthrob, was she attacking a basic Hollywood fantasy like it was a
Paul Thomas Anderson drama? “Awww…” she smiles, affectionately. “He’s
the same way. Well, he takes it very much at face value. Sometimes I
need to make myself do that. I just really am trying, trying, all the
time. I mean, Walter actually said to me several times during On the
Road, ‘Stop reaching, you’re already there.’ But I like to be scared. I
love to suddenly feel out of control. Actors walk around wearing these
little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don’t find that
interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at
the drop of a hat. That’s so uninteresting. And so many actresses are
so fucking crazy. They’re emotional wrecks, so they pretend to be these
characters. But the emotions aren’t coming from the right place. Do you
know what I mean?” And you have to remind her: this is your interview:
you tell us.
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Chapter Three: Coming from the Right Place
“At first, the reason I started doing this was literally just because
I wanted a job. My parents are crew – my mom’s a script supervisor; my
dad’s an AD – and I always looked up to them, I really completely
glorified the movies. And so at first, I just wanted the responsibility.
I wanted adults to talk to me. I wanted to be involved. I was bored.
Then I turned 13 and did this movie called Speak…I mean, to do a
date-rape movie at 13, it really affected me. I suddenly felt like
things could be really important and really help people. I did this
public service announcement right after I did the movie and this
enormous influx of people called in and said things that they had never
told anyone before. And it hit me so fucking hard. I was like, ‘Wow,
something that I love, something that was so personal to me’ – because
at that point, I had never gotten any aknowledgement for anything I’d
done, it really was just for me – ‘suddenly touched people.’ Movies,
they can be important if you want them to be.”
Chapter Four: Movies are important
So here it is. If you want them to be, even teen movies about
hair-gelled vampires and werewolves in cut-off jeans can be important.
They can help you make other movies, movies like On the Road, movies
that might not get seen or even made without you.
In Hollywood, with great power comes…great parties. But here’s the
reason why you wont see Stewart following Lindsay Lohan into the starlet
scrapyard. Through some crazy accident, indie actress got bitten by a
radioactive franchise and gained special powers. They won’t last
forever. But while they do…”It’s weird to be in this position of, like…”
She sighs, checking herself. “Not to sound fucking crazy, but
‘financial prowes’. I feel bad about it. I feel like you need to do
something. I made Welcome to the Rileys [in which Stewart played a young
woman with emotional issues] a few years back and now I want to open
two halfway houses, one in New Orleans and one in LA, and I want to make
a documentary about why it’s important. But all this ridiculously empty
charity work that you see? Like, you show up at an even and you wear a
dress and you auction your dress off and you suddenly feel important. I
want to do it right. Right now, I just feel it. It’s not to be wasted.
Because I know my value is fucking strong.”
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