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Video: Kristen Stewart Signing For Fans at the Breaking Dawn Part 2 Premiere!
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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner at the Breaking Dawn Part 2 Premiere!
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Kristen Stewart & Stephenie Meyer Talk Commitment + NEW Pic!
This last weekend saw the last tent city for the diehard fans of “The Twilight Saga.” Hundreds of loyal devotees of the epic romance between a mortal teenager and her vampire boyfriend braved cold nights camped out at the L.A. Live complex awaiting Monday night’s premiere of the fifth and final “Twilight” movie, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II.”
The film’s nationwide debut in theaters this Friday marks the end of an era for the five-part movie series starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, based on the books by Phoenix-based author Stephenie Meyer. Back in 2008, when it all began on location in Portland, Ore., no one could have imagined what a cultural phenomenon “Twilight” would become for young female audiences.
“The first one felt like our one-shot, didn’t it?” Meyer asks Stewart during a recent wide-ranging interview with the L.A. Times. “[Our attitude was] we are all going to go have fun and make a vampire movie and that’s it, we will walk away from it. I don’t think anyone of us thought it was going to be five years of our life.”
During those intervening years, the three relatively unknown actors became huge superstars and the films grossed $2.5 billion worldwide. The movies also proved that girl-driven stories could dominate the box office, paving the way for “The Hunger Games,” and the slew of book adaptations currently in development across Hollywood.
And as the series became more and more popular, the pressure to create a cinematic experience while remaining faithful to the books mounted. Meyer is a firm believer that the first movie’s director Catherine Hardwicke had the most freedom, while the others were more constrained by the series’ popularity.
“When we started doing this, there weren’t a lot of people screaming about what they wanted. Catherine had a more creatively-open environment. Then after the reaction, Chris [Weitz] came in and there was a sense that these people are watching, they are waiting for the details, they want to see this exact scene. All the rest of the directors had a more difficult challenge. There was more pressure.”
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New interview with Kristen Stewart and Stephenie Meyer with a new picture
Even after all this time, author Stephenie Meyer, the Mormon mother of three who became an overnight literary sensation with the 2005 publication of her young-adult novel “Twilight,” can’t explain the phenomenon that surrounds the grand romance between vampire Edward Cullen and human teenager Bella Swan, characters played on-screen by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
“I don’t know what makes people love it, I don’t know what makes people hate it,” said Meyer, seated comfortably in a suite of a Beverly Hills hotel. “But I do know that the feeling of being in love is a good feeling. We want to feel that emotion.”
“I’ve always said that,” Stewart said to Meyer, sitting beside her. “It’s so vicarious. It’s not like you are watching two people or reading two people. You feel like you are doing it. It’s rare.”
There’s no question that “Twilight” is that rare gem: a book and movie property that stokes a kind of unquenchable fire among its largely female fan base. That following has been so sizable and so fervent that the “Twi-hards,” as they’re called, have helped transform Meyer’s supernatural tale into a $2.5-billion business, proving that girl-centric tales can be powerful forces at the box office.
With the fifth and presumably final big-screen entry, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” due to arrive in theaters Friday, Meyer and Stewart seem to share a bond reminiscent of the connection between Meyer’s two protagonists.
Their closeness stems from the unlikely duo’s joint goal of ensuring that the beloved material, for all its melodrama, remained intact as it was translated to the big screen. That required them to battle nervous studio executives who wanted Stewart’s interpretation of Bella to be less tortured, hardened detractors who railed against overwrought story lines and pop culture satirists who often turned the franchise into its own punch line.
November
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Kristen Stewart’s Backstage Interview with a new photoshoot
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!”
In 2007, Walter Salles was having dinner with two friends, “Babel” director Alejandro González Iñárritu and composer Gustavo Santaolalla, when he mentioned he was looking for a young actor to play Marylou in “On the Road.” Says Salles, “They both said, in unison, ‘You absolutely have to meet this girl who is in ‘Into the Wild.’ ” After checking out the film, Salles was taken by the then-unknown Kristen Stewart. “Kristen doesn’t appear for the first two-thirds of the film, but when she comes into the story she just brings a unique light and magnetic quality to the screen that very few actresses possess,” he says. After a meeting at the Sunset Marquis (a place Stewart says now has “a very special place in my heart”), Salles offered her the role. “Several actors were testing for the part at this point, and I didn’t even ask her to test,” he says.
On set, Salles says Stewart impressed everyone with her work ethic. “She is unbelievably concentrated. She can be so tough with herself; she doesn’t give up until she reaches a point where she believes she did her best. That kind of pursuit of excellence is really a gift for any director.” As for her lesser-known talents, he says, “Her iPod had the best selection of music from the ’70s you will ever find, so whenever we wanted good music, we would report to Kristen. Also, she plays pool as well as the boys. Better, in fact. She beat them most of the time.”
For our interview with Kristen Stewart, pick up copies of Backstage on newsstands Nov. 08.
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