For once, Kristen Stewart seemed at ease.
The 20-year-old "Twilight" bintang was enjoying a rare moment of anonymity at one of her kegemaran restaurants, a rustic hideaway shrouded sejak a canopy of ferns, perched alongside a twisty road in Topanga Canyon. Notices for a local farmers market, a childbirth preparation class and a 70th birthday celebration for John Lennon decorated the haunt's bulletin board.
A few honeybees circled the veggie burger on her plate as she chatted about playing a teenage runaway-turned-stripper in her latest film, "Welcome to the Rileys," a drama coming to theaters Friday. She wasn't running her hands through her hair, atau incessantly shaking her leg, atau stuttering as she tried to express herself — all of the characteristic nervous tics she's often displayed in public since the first "Twilight" film rocketed her into a frightening orbit of celebrity two years ago.
Then, suddenly, her face fell. A stranger was timidly inching over to her table.
"Could I take a picture for my girlfriend in Thailand?" the man, who appeared to be in his 30s, asked. "She's a great-looking girl. I just recently got into your Filem with her. Is that cool?"
Stewart paused, her left leg slowly beginning to bounce. "Yeah," she sighed. "Yeah, sure." She posed for a foto with the interloper.
Oblivious to her agitation, he lingered. "What's your name again? Kristen, right? Want me to tunjuk anda my girl?" he asked, beginning to flip through imej on his digital camera. "Just for her to know that I picked up breakfast at your restaurant. anda know, we're the type of people that don't get out much."
Finally, he retreated. Stewart pulled the hud, hood of her black baju panas, sweatshirt over her head.
"It's strange when anda become a novelty," she said, slouching down into her seat. "It's sort of like, 'Yeah, sure. Go put this on your Facebook so your Friends can laugh at it.' Because that's what they will do. And I usually say no to people like that, when they're like, 'Yo, yo, can I get a picture of you?' And it's like, 'No, … you,' '' she said, interjecting an obscenity. "That's what I'm thinking."
Stewart, it's clear, is still grappling with fame, which came at her hard and fast when at age 17 she took on the role of Bella angsa, swan in the "Twilight" vampire franchise, whose fourth installment begins production seterusnya month. She's always trailed sejak paparazzi. A frenzy breaks out whenever she's spotted off-set with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson; tabloids speculate breathlessly about their personal lives.
(One celebrity website, for example, recently gushed about its "exclusive new details" on the pair's visit to a Play N Trade video game store in Prairieville, La., where they are preparing to film the first part of "Breaking Dawn." If anda must know, they reportedly bought the game "Fallout: New Vegas.")
Unlike other young stars like Justin Bieber atau Lindsay Lohan, who seem to relish sharing tidbits about their lives with peminat-peminat on social networking sites like Twitter, Stewart has strenuously resisted constant demands to divulge lebih of herself to the public.
In past interviews, she's displayed a penchant for stuttering and eye rolling, consequently developing a reputation for being sullen, atau awkward. During a 2008 interview with David Letterman, she self-consciously referred to herself as "actually really boring."
"I don't have a personality fit for television. I just don't," she admitted, sounding genuinely friendly. "Even when I really feel like I've had fun with something and been totally fine and we talked about stuff that I thought was interesting — even then. I don't know. It's getting easier. It used to be a lot worse. And it's totally my fault, too. I guess I just put too much pressure on myself before, and it showed."
Though she started Berlakon half a lifetime lalu — garnering early acclaim from the likes of Jodie Foster, who co-starred with her in 2002's "Panic Room," and Sean Penn, who directed her in 2007's "Into the Wild" — Stewart says she's been unable to nail a performance as a carefree, charming atau cute interview subject, because that's simply not who she is.
Sixteen-year-old Dakota Fanning, who costarred with Stewart in "The Runaways" this year, picked up on her uneasiness during the film's media tour.
"I think that her being uncomfortable doing interviews — Kristen is exactly who she is. It's something that I admire her for," Fanning said. "When she's doing an interview, she really thinks about what she's saying. She's a truthful, honest person, and wants that to come across so badly."
Things got so bad, her team sent her to media training.
"Basically, they told me that I should be ready for any soalan that's thrown at me, and I should have a stock answer, because then it won't confuse things and you'll never be caught off guard," she recalled. "And there's no way to do that. There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone anda don't know about something that means the world to you."
The 20-year-old "Twilight" bintang was enjoying a rare moment of anonymity at one of her kegemaran restaurants, a rustic hideaway shrouded sejak a canopy of ferns, perched alongside a twisty road in Topanga Canyon. Notices for a local farmers market, a childbirth preparation class and a 70th birthday celebration for John Lennon decorated the haunt's bulletin board.
A few honeybees circled the veggie burger on her plate as she chatted about playing a teenage runaway-turned-stripper in her latest film, "Welcome to the Rileys," a drama coming to theaters Friday. She wasn't running her hands through her hair, atau incessantly shaking her leg, atau stuttering as she tried to express herself — all of the characteristic nervous tics she's often displayed in public since the first "Twilight" film rocketed her into a frightening orbit of celebrity two years ago.
Then, suddenly, her face fell. A stranger was timidly inching over to her table.
"Could I take a picture for my girlfriend in Thailand?" the man, who appeared to be in his 30s, asked. "She's a great-looking girl. I just recently got into your Filem with her. Is that cool?"
Stewart paused, her left leg slowly beginning to bounce. "Yeah," she sighed. "Yeah, sure." She posed for a foto with the interloper.
Oblivious to her agitation, he lingered. "What's your name again? Kristen, right? Want me to tunjuk anda my girl?" he asked, beginning to flip through imej on his digital camera. "Just for her to know that I picked up breakfast at your restaurant. anda know, we're the type of people that don't get out much."
Finally, he retreated. Stewart pulled the hud, hood of her black baju panas, sweatshirt over her head.
"It's strange when anda become a novelty," she said, slouching down into her seat. "It's sort of like, 'Yeah, sure. Go put this on your Facebook so your Friends can laugh at it.' Because that's what they will do. And I usually say no to people like that, when they're like, 'Yo, yo, can I get a picture of you?' And it's like, 'No, … you,' '' she said, interjecting an obscenity. "That's what I'm thinking."
Stewart, it's clear, is still grappling with fame, which came at her hard and fast when at age 17 she took on the role of Bella angsa, swan in the "Twilight" vampire franchise, whose fourth installment begins production seterusnya month. She's always trailed sejak paparazzi. A frenzy breaks out whenever she's spotted off-set with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson; tabloids speculate breathlessly about their personal lives.
(One celebrity website, for example, recently gushed about its "exclusive new details" on the pair's visit to a Play N Trade video game store in Prairieville, La., where they are preparing to film the first part of "Breaking Dawn." If anda must know, they reportedly bought the game "Fallout: New Vegas.")
Unlike other young stars like Justin Bieber atau Lindsay Lohan, who seem to relish sharing tidbits about their lives with peminat-peminat on social networking sites like Twitter, Stewart has strenuously resisted constant demands to divulge lebih of herself to the public.
In past interviews, she's displayed a penchant for stuttering and eye rolling, consequently developing a reputation for being sullen, atau awkward. During a 2008 interview with David Letterman, she self-consciously referred to herself as "actually really boring."
"I don't have a personality fit for television. I just don't," she admitted, sounding genuinely friendly. "Even when I really feel like I've had fun with something and been totally fine and we talked about stuff that I thought was interesting — even then. I don't know. It's getting easier. It used to be a lot worse. And it's totally my fault, too. I guess I just put too much pressure on myself before, and it showed."
Though she started Berlakon half a lifetime lalu — garnering early acclaim from the likes of Jodie Foster, who co-starred with her in 2002's "Panic Room," and Sean Penn, who directed her in 2007's "Into the Wild" — Stewart says she's been unable to nail a performance as a carefree, charming atau cute interview subject, because that's simply not who she is.
Sixteen-year-old Dakota Fanning, who costarred with Stewart in "The Runaways" this year, picked up on her uneasiness during the film's media tour.
"I think that her being uncomfortable doing interviews — Kristen is exactly who she is. It's something that I admire her for," Fanning said. "When she's doing an interview, she really thinks about what she's saying. She's a truthful, honest person, and wants that to come across so badly."
Things got so bad, her team sent her to media training.
"Basically, they told me that I should be ready for any soalan that's thrown at me, and I should have a stock answer, because then it won't confuse things and you'll never be caught off guard," she recalled. "And there's no way to do that. There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone anda don't know about something that means the world to you."
#3 Kristen Stewart (up 87 places)
A simply stunning performance for the 20-year-old bintang of the $700m-grossing-and-counting Twilight mega franchise. With one movie left in the trilogy (Eclipse), and a BAFTA Rising bintang award on her sideboard, the LA-born actress is taking on lebih challenging roles. First she stars as jailbait rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways, then a Tony Soprano-baiting prostitute in Welcome To The Rileys and finally in K-11 she’ll play Butterfly, a male-to-female transsexual with autism, which ironically is also Twilight’s target demographic.
#1 Marisa Miller (up 10 places)
#2 Megan fox (down 1 place)
#3 Kristen Stewart (up 87 places)
#4 Britney Spears (up 8 places)
#5 Blake Lively (up 34 places)
A simply stunning performance for the 20-year-old bintang of the $700m-grossing-and-counting Twilight mega franchise. With one movie left in the trilogy (Eclipse), and a BAFTA Rising bintang award on her sideboard, the LA-born actress is taking on lebih challenging roles. First she stars as jailbait rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways, then a Tony Soprano-baiting prostitute in Welcome To The Rileys and finally in K-11 she’ll play Butterfly, a male-to-female transsexual with autism, which ironically is also Twilight’s target demographic.
#1 Marisa Miller (up 10 places)
#2 Megan fox (down 1 place)
#3 Kristen Stewart (up 87 places)
#4 Britney Spears (up 8 places)
#5 Blake Lively (up 34 places)
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart kissed at the Kings of Leon concert, while the rest of the cast actually looked pretty bored. They cast of Eclipse also enjoyed a sushi night out for some pre-filming bonding.
- A silly rumor also floated around that Robert Pattinson was engaged to some unknown and unnamed woman. That rumor was squashed.
- Kelly Clarkson proved herself to be a Robert Pattinson fan. She was Singing her song "I Want You" in konsert Saturday night and a concertgoer handed her a Robert Pattinson cardboard figure. She played right along with it. Too cute. (What The Forks via RobPattzNews)
- There is another Twilight convention to go along with TwiCon and TwiTours, the Fantasi Twilight Tour. Confirmed so far (for various dates) Ashley Greene, Alex Meraz, Edi Gathegi, Justin Chon and Gil Birmingham. Check out the link for cities and dates. (via Twilighters Anonymous)