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Inquirer – Kristen Stewart on growing up, fear, losing inhibitions
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“I have been asked a lot about growing up lately,” Kristen Stewart said in a recent press conference, in reply to a question about what she had learned about herself, especially this year which saw her go through a turbulent few months.
“One solid thing I can say is that fear is not necessarily a bad thing,” declared Kristen, clad in a Stella McCartney dress and sporting Christian Louboutin shoes. “It’s something that, as you get older, you can get a bit more comfortable with. Fear is a very motivating thing in life. You should not be crippled by it—use it instead.”
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Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund Discuss the Long Road to ‘On the Road’ at L.A. Premiere
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The “Twilight” star tells THR that when she read Jack Kerouac’s novel as a teen, “there was no way I could have ever possibly imagined that I could play a part like that.”
On the Road, Walter Salles’ film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s cult classic novel, follows a group of young adults who are searching for freedom through travel, drugs, sex, adventure and music. While the novel defined a generation, it was a long and arduous journey to get the story moved onto the big screen.
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USA Today – Stewart was in good spirits at her AFI Fest premiere
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Kristen Stewart had a blockbuster weekend.
The actress spent Saturday at the press junket for The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn, Part 2, and at night, after a quick change into a white cut-out Balenciaga cropped tank and high-waisted trousers, walked the red carpet for her indie film On the Road. Amy Adams, Garrett Hedlund and director Walter Salles were also on hand at Grauman’s Chinese theater to debut the film (due out Dec. 21) at the AFI Fest 2012.
It was a heavy load, but you’d never know it from talking to Stewart, who will premiere Part 2 in just a week. She walked the press line calm, collected and friendly. Not even a stray piece of double-sided tape stuck to her top fazed her when a publicist stepped in to remove it halfway down the red carpet.
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Now Toronto – Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund
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Kristen Stewart swears a lot. It’s great; it instantly makes her a human being rather than the tabloid icon she’s unwillingly become at age 22. (Long story short: She and her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson split up earlier this summer. The reasons why are none of my business, and none of yours either, honestly. But the Twilight movies make hundreds of millions of dollars and there’s one more coming out in November, so apparently it’s news.)
Stewart’s come to TIFF to launch On The Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic Beat novel in which she plays Marylou, the sexually adventurous child bride of the charismatic Dean Moriarty. (Yes, there are nude scenes. No, they aren’t explicit.) On the press day, Stewart is paired with Garrett Hedlund, who plays Moriarty. And the two of them were their most animated when they were discussing the freewheeling, improvisational style director Walter Salles encouraged on the shoot.
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Washington Post – Kristen Stewart goes back on the red carpet for ‘On the Road’
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It’s been tough for Kristen Stewart to be back out in public after revelations of an affair that led to her breakup with “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson.
Yet there’s no place she would rather be than at the Toronto International Film Festival alongside her colleagues for the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1950s Beat Generation novel, “On the Road.”
Stewart said she never thought about skipping the festival, where the film played ahead of its U.S. theatrical release in December.
She said it was important to be there with director Walter Salles and co-stars that include Kirsten Dunst and Garrett Hedlund, who like Stewart had worked for years to get the film made.
“We have been waiting for this thing to be unleashed for so long. It was sort of one of those situations where you just have to put yourself in your body and go appreciate the moment,” Stewart said in an interview Saturday.
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USA Today – Kristen talks books, love scenes and inhibition
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Kristen Stewart did what most actors in her situation wouldn’t: in the midst of personal scandal, she stepped out to promote her small, intimate and very personal film, On the Road.
“Thanks, man. Thanks,” says Stewart, when told it was good of her to put herself out there, given the scrutiny she’s been under. Granted, she did her interviews with costar Garrett Hedlund and director Walter Salles. But she put herself out there and for that, I respect her.
The film is based on Jack Kerouac’s seminal American novel. Hedlund plays Dean, who has what could be generously described a very unconventional relationship with his teen bride, Mary Lou (Stewart).
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The Star – Kristen talks “On the Road”
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It comes as a shock to see Kristen Stewart curled up in a chair in a Toronto hotel room, looking considerably thinner and less poised than she did at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The same film is being discussed: On the Road, the Walter Salles adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s totemic 1957 Beat Generation novel, which is receiving its North American premiere at TIFF before a year-end release.
The tense body language of Stewart, 22, says all that needs to be said about how difficult the past four months have been for her, during which she confessed to an affair that led to a breakup with Robert Pattinson, her boyfriend and Twilight franchise co-star.
It would be a mistake, though, to read too much into tabloid headlines. Stewart looked as glamorous on Friday’s Ryerson Theatre red carpet as she did on the scarlet walk outside the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
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