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Check out Entertainment Weekly’s interview with the Twilight trio below, thanks to Strictly Robsten for the transcript.

“Dude,” says Kristen Stewart. “There was something so sensory about it,” 

An hour ago, Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson – otherwise known as the stars of The Twilight Saga – had their hand-and footprints immortalized in cement outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Still giddy, palms stained a faint gray, the 21-year-old actress waxes poetic to her costars for a moment about how it felt when, right after leaving her prints for posterity, she impulsively grabbed Lautner’s and Pattinson’s hands. “the concrete was so gritty and I didn’t even look, I just found your hands and it really felt like something,” she says. The dudes she’s speaking to, being dudes, burst into laughter. Stewart glares at them with mock rage: “You know what? Fuck you both right now in the face for laughing at me.” 
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Kristen Stewart has now walked down the aisle in a dream wedding dress and had Bella’s dream honeymoon in Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1. But off-screen, Kristen says she still doesn’t exactly feel like a “grown up.”

The 21-year-old star talked to Parade.com about her highly anticipated love scene with Robert Pattinson and how Bella and Edward “hated each other” for the first time.

On the love scene the world is waiting for.
“The bed stuff was a little bit technical and weird. Every time I was off-camera, I was making goofy faces at Rob to make him laugh. I couldn’t take it seriously. I had fun when we got romantic in the water though. It felt very spontaneous.”

On her big walk down the aisle.
“I was so transcendentally weird that day. It was one of the last things that we shot in the movie, and I felt it all coming to an end. I was uber-aware; my nerves were so close to the surface of my skin. I had all of these beats in my head laid out about what I was going to do in those scenes. Like, I knew that there was a moment where you’re supposed to swell and glow. It was intense. The morning we were filming the wedding, I let all the others go to work without me. I stayed in my bedroom by myself and I did not go to set with everyone else. I tried to have the experience of what I would feel before the wedding and what I felt when it happened for real, and I think it came across. I felt good that day.”

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Today Summit was hosting a press junket for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 in Beverly Hills, California. Here’s what Kristen told the journalists (thanks to Hypable):

Question: You look sane and normal today. What we had from Bill Condon you had a crazy life playing a virgin in the morning, delivering a baby in the afternoon, talk about the trials and tribulations? Also, Bella’s become a huge pop culture character. How does it compare to playing Snow White?
Kristen: Shooting two movies at the same time, with no regard to – it wasn’t something we were initially concerned about. Scheduling wise, it really was – EVERYWHERE in each day like Bill said. I think what that gave me was that – she’s thinking, she’s always looking into the future and what she’s going to achieve. Or she’s feeling bad about what she wants. She’s very much in her own head. Being able to play a vampire, a human, a pregnant woman – literally sometimes in the day.. it helped remind me that it all was equally important. Everything felt very close. If we did it more systematically, it wouldn’t have been the same. It was so overwhelming that it was a good thing
…As for the iconic role, I guess the only actual comparison is that they really both are matriarchs. Very strong that need to find their position. But it’s so different (Snow White VS Bella). Snow White was really never.. I didn’t grow up on fairy tales. I didn’t grow up with Twilight.

Question: You’ve had success away from Twilight. How have you avoided being typecast?
Kristen: I’ve done pretty – the movies I’ve done in between, I”m really lucky they’ve been very different. Not just because I meant them to be. They just happened to be very attractive to me. Right now is the first time I haven’t worked and not known what I was going to be doing. I want to have time off to figure out what my interests are. I want to really figure out what I REALLY want to do.

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Total Film talked to Kristen, Robert and Taylor about Breaking Dawn – Part 1. Read the interview in December issue of Total Film or see the scans below!

Below you will find some quotes from Kristen’s exclusive interview with British Glamour:

Kristen talks about the much-anticipated Breaking Dawn sex scene. “It was so weird, it didn’t even feel like we were doing a Twilight film. I was like, ‘Bella! What are you doing? Wow! What is happening here?!’ It was very surreal. We [originally] got rated R. They recut it.”

The actress also reveals there was extra security while the Breaking Dawn wedding scene was filmed: “I had to be shrouded in secrecy the entire two days of filming… it was crazy… I was on full lockdown, as if I was wearing millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds.”

Kristen admits she tried to get in shape ahead of Breaking Dawn, in which she has to wear a bikini. “Usually we all make fun of Taylor [Lautner] for working out so often, and then suddenly me and Rob were like ‘Shit” and were running around the block while Taylor laughed at us.”

Kristen seems to have picked up a few British habits while filming Snow White And The Huntsman here. “I love beans on toast,” she says.

The actress also touches on her alleged relationship with co-star Robert Pattinson. “It’s funny when this question comes up, because I sort of feel like, I don’t really care! People can say whatever they want…. [The interest] is totally understandable, but when it’s personal to you, it’s like your life becomes a product and I’m repelled by that. I don’t like to give away gems that people are gonna be like, ‘Oh my God! So I’ll always just shrug it off – in fact, I always find it kind of funny, and not just with Rob.”

…And it isn’t just Twilight that Kristen talked about. The actress is currently filming Snow White And The Huntsman in London, and reveals she’s doing horse-riding lessons in preparation. “I’m fairly terrified… I fell off the other day.”

Read the full interview with Kristen in the December issue of Glamour UK!

Boxoffice recently sat down with Kristen to discuss all things Twilight as well as her post-Twilight projects.

You know this character so well, what’s it like to take her through this huge change when she becomes a vampire herself?
It felt good. It was really weird. It was such a long process of the two movies being shot at the same time as if they’re one. You shoot, obviously, out of order and you keep going back and forth between pregnant, human and dead vampire Bella. There’s so many different versions of Bella in this, it’s insane. It was a strange experience walking on set the first time I played a scene as a vampire because I’d watched everyone around me doing it all the time. I sound so lame, but vampire Bella really is my favorite character—she’s very representative of a matriarch. She’s very intuitive on almost a psychic level and no one ever acknowledges it, which is interesting. Maybe that says something about Stephenie that she doesn’t get respect for all of her f–king amazing qualities. And that’s also one of the things that makes her appealing to me, so that’s not a strike at it—that’s something that I like about it. And I think it’s nice to see her finally get what she wants. That’s probably the best thing, even if it sounds simple and indulgent, which is why the f–king thing is criticized all the time. It’s nice to see people be happy. And she really—if I’ve played it right—is born to be where she is.

You’re shooting Snow White and the Huntsman right now which imagines Snow White as this warrior princess. What’s her fighting style like?
Not to trivialize it at all, but it’s hard to play an action hero who is also the most compassionate person on earth. You can’t hate. You epitomize bleeding hearts, so how the f–k do you do an action movie like that? She is sort of the last shred of hope for her land. She has this ethereal, spiritual connection to her people—she really feels things-and so it’s like we don’t really feel empathy. I’ve had some f–king eye-opening experiences on this movie. I think that to truly care for something isn’t just putting yourself in that situation aesthetically and then going, “Oh my god, I feel so bad for them.” It’s truly not thinking of yourself at all. The way that you fight is that you must take out anything that hurt your people. Basically, I’m fighting evil—I’m fighting the most evil motherf–kers-and it’s fine that they’re being killed. It’s anguish. It’s literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I’m exhausted right now and I was thinking, “The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won’t be so bad.” And then I realized that they’re probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I’m killing people and I’m Snow White. It’s a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die. Not that I’m criticizing violent movies—I love them, generally—but it is nice to do it this way.

The rest of the interview will be published closer to the November 18 release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I.

Hollywood is a tough place to hide. Especially when all around you seem willing to shop their own grandmother to be seen, heard, filmed, paid, then seen, heard, filmed and paid (double) to do the sequel (in 3-D) with Jason Flemyng (playing the bad guy), Andy Serkis (as the curiosity intelligent ape with a grudge against humanity) and Hans Zimmer (mastering the score). But as any number of Audi R8-leasing LA agents would argue: if it’s the gentle, quiet life you’re after, then you should stay as far away from Hollywood as your pretty little green legs will carry you. Get out of the Game. Go back to your pig-rearing half-cousins in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Go home. Have kids. Teach. Forget about your silly little movie-star fairy tale…

But you want to be a star? You want to be famous? Then jump off the couch, sugar pie, and I’ll see you — without your enabler — tonight at the Chateau, room 69, to go over your “motivation”. Oh, but you want to be an actor? Someone respected for your craft? Well, I hear there’s a duplex going begging next to James Lipton’s condo in TriBeCa. After five years of failed go-sees and auditions I’ll see you at Mel’s Drive-In, on Sunset Boulevard, where you’ll be waiting tables for the rest of your jumped-up, sad, lonely, precocious, little life. Take my order down! Fresh OJ, wheat pancakes, a plate of huevos rancheros with two eggs over-easy and a side of nevergoingtohappen. So long, toots. And close the door — on your career — as you leave. “Slam!”

Such a scene might be somewhat purple, but that doesn’t mean it never happens. To be a star in Hollywood takes a lucky break, a reality TV show, a pit bull for an agent, redemption from addiction, several DUIs and a spectacular relapse or, at the very least, a generous slice of hard-fought nepotism. To be a great actor, however — no matter how sceptical you might be about this industry — still takes talent. Thankfully, Kristen Stewart — the beautiful 21-year-old star of the Twilight franchise — is not from Albuquerque, has no cousins who rear pigs (who we’re aware of), has never knowingly “hopped off an agent’s knee” (unless, of course, it was to reach his face with her fist — with three older brothers the kid can look after herself), nor been anywhere near the industry rubbernecking Mecca that is the infamous Chateau Marmont. In short, other than her bank account (Forbes had her earnings listed alongside Julia Roberts earlier this year) there’s nothing remotely “Hollywood” about Kristen Stewart.

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