Teenage Kristen Stewart sheds her aloof “Bella-esque” image in a recent interview with Dazed Magazine. Sputtering expletives throughout her discussion about her film roles including her upcoming portrayal as a street kid prostitute stripper, fans see an all-together different side of Kristen.
Kristen dished about her views on Joan Jett:
She’s the ultimate badass. She was the first woman to start her own record label. Everybody threw her out after the Runaways and was like, ‘Sorry girl, your shticks over,’ she was like ‘No, the message stays the same people still want to hear it.’ Who the f*&k did that before her?
Kristen also got in a dig or two about invasive Twilight fans/paparazzi, who camped outside her interview, using Twitter to discover her 24/7 whereabouts:
Yeah, but you can’t think about it too much because if you think about it too much it is this weird and dreamy fantasy land – you think – ‘ what the h*&l absurd thing are we doing at 3 o’clock in the morning, with 300 people- pretending to be other people, what the f&*k are we doing? … Yeah since Twilight. That’s the only reason they’re out there. They find out where I am from the Internet - from Twitter, man! Anyone who wants to know where I am at any given time just has to go on Twitter, it’s so ridiculous!
But the real reason for the interview, despite 300 lingering fans, was to discuss Kristen’s role in the upcoming flick, Welcome to the Rileys.
A character quite the antithesis of innocent teen Bella, the teen prostitute/stripper role that Kristen tackled was both her favorite and the one with which she has most identified. With Jake Scott (son of Ridley Scott) as the director, Kristen says that it was the greatest filming experience she’s ever had.
About the bones of her salacious character, Kristen says:
I play such a child, like she has the emotional stability of a 5 year old; she’s in her own little world that she had to close off at a certain point. She’s at that point where she’s not quite over the edge like a lot of those people, and I met a lot of them in New Orleans, talking to people who had done the job for so long.
They’re gone. Like I hate to say that, there is a part of them that is dead inside and it is so sad they can still live a happy life or whatever, but that part is. So she’s not dead, she’s still whole. She’s just really broken and she needs to be put back together, and she needs this guy. James Gandolfini plays this plumber who is grieving the loss of his daughter and is dead inside as well, so she is sort of the catalyst of his awakening and subsequent reuniting with his wife, like she comes out of the house after 8 years. Like this vulgar really fully kid who has her own problems greater than theirs ends up helping to get them to a place where they can continue their lives.
Photographer David Benjamin Sherry saw inside Kristen a young Jodie Foster or Winona Ryder, two Hollywood starlets known for brisk pasts and rough edges. In this Dazed interview, Kristen certainly does not disappoint in her equally engaging style, with a jagged edge described as only a strict 180 degree turn from plain homey Bella Swan.
Maybe it’s the mama bear in me, but I just want to wash Miss Stewart’s mouth out with soap, then hand her a lollipop.
