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		<title>Alloy &#8211; &#8220;The Yellow Handkerchief&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a bit jarring to see Kristen Stewart so far away from Forks, but at least her new co-star is best friends with Rob Pattinson! Eddie Redmayne and Kristen team up in The Yellow Handkerchief, a film about a road trip through post-Katrina New Orleans. In the movie, Kristen hops in a car [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may be a bit jarring to see Kristen Stewart so far away from Forks, but at least her new co-star is best friends with Rob Pattinson! Eddie Redmayne and Kristen team up in <em>The Yellow Handkerchief</em>, a film about a road trip through post-Katrina New Orleans. In the movie, Kristen hops in a car with two strangers&#8230; and the rest you&#8217;ll just have to see for yourself!</p>
<p><strong>What made you want to play this part?</strong><br />
<strong>Kristen:</strong> When I read the script it was one of those things that you get really excited about and then instantly really sick because you&#8217;re not sure that you&#8217;ve got the part. I was sort of undeniably emotionally moved by it and I think just regarding the person that I played, she makes such a comeback. I feel like in the beginning she&#8217;s so clearly disappointed in everything around her and that first time you see her she&#8217;s rejected and that&#8217;s what she&#8217;s running from.</p>
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<p><strong>Can you identify with the whole teenage runaway attitude that you have in the film?</strong><br />
<strong>Kristen:</strong> I feel like [running away] was so not thought out. It&#8217;s a pretty courageous thing to do to get in that car. And especially for a young girl, it can be considered silly. But I can identify with her in that she is doing something that is dangerous but that will ultimately be absolutely worth it. I can absolutely relate to that.</p>
<p><strong>You guys must have spent a lot of time in the car. Any funny stories from filming?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Eddie:</strong> [For the scene] when we hit the [deer], we had a load of crew in the back with lights and all this stuff. And I had to do this screeching break as we hit this thing and I was like, &#8220;Be careful because I am screeching this car&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Kristen: </strong>Again and again you said it.</p>
<p><strong>Eddie: </strong>&#8220;&#8230;It&#8217;s gonna be quite a jolt when we stop.&#8221; And they said &#8220;No problem, man, no problem.&#8221; And we did the scene and they cut to me and I break the car and I scream and this guy got all bruised out of the back! And I&#8217;m like, &#8220;I told you man, I told you.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Kristen, your character is into ballet in the movie. Did you have to take any ballet classes to prepare?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> Yeah. Something that was initially really daunting about the character was that she loved to dance and that she really used her physicality as a means of control and power. Before I did this movie I don&#8217;t think I did a two-step. So I took some ballet lessons from these really hardcore ballerinas, but what I always thought about the character was that she wasn&#8217;t really one to take a class. She sort of was like, &#8220;I really wanna do that.&#8221; So then I didn&#8217;t have to say that I was a trained ballerina, which I would never ever be able to accomplish in the two weeks that we had before we started shooting.</p>
<p><strong>Eddie:</strong> Remember how obsessed you became with your dance shoes, though? Jazz pumps. You became obsessed.</p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> I have like, 16 pairs of these little white Capezios.</p>
<p><strong>Eddie&#8217;s character plays around with a disposable camera in the movie. Did you keep any souvenirs of the photos you took?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Eddie:</strong> We did, actually. The photos used in the scrapbook in the movie are ones we took of Kristen doing her dance.</p>
<p><strong>Your characters are cut off from the outside world once Kristen&#8217;s phone dies. Do you ever turn off your cell phones just to see what happens?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> I always turn my phone off and really infuriate a lot of people.</p>
<p><strong>In the movie, a big storm hits and it&#8217;s rainy and gloomy for a while. Have you ever lived in that kind of climate?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> I haven&#8217;t had crazy weather&#8230; Wait a second &#8212; what am I talking about? I just made three films in the Pacific Northwest. I know the depression that is the cold west.</p>
<p><strong>So does the dark weather really mess with your mood?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> Yeah, absolutely. I think that&#8217;s sort of undeniable. If you&#8217;re cold for three months and you&#8217;re always trying to stay dry&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Eddie:</strong> It&#8217;s interesting, though. In London we used to have horrific weather. But when I came to LA, the expectation is for continual sunshine. You expect it to be the perfect Hollywood dream and when it&#8217;s not, it can be mildly depressing.</p>
<p><strong>Have you learned anything interesting about each other since you spent so much time together?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Kristen:</strong> There&#8217;s nothing interesting to learn about this guy.</p>
<p><strong>Eddie:</strong> There&#8217;s nothing interesting to learn about her.</p>
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		<title>She Knows &#8211; &#8220;Yellow Handkerchief&#8221; star shines</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart walked into our suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills quite casually dressed in a V-neck T-Shirt and jeans, yet Stewart was quite serious when it comes to her latest film The Yellow Handkerchief. The Twilight star, known as Bella to billions, filmed The Yellow Handkerchief before the Stephenie Meyer-authored madness began, in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Kristen Stewart walked into our suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills quite casually dressed in a V-neck T-Shirt and jeans, yet Stewart was quite serious when it comes to her latest film The Yellow Handkerchief. The Twilight star, known as Bella to billions, filmed The Yellow Handkerchief before the Stephenie Meyer-authored madness began, in Louisiana days after Hurricane Katrina.</p>
<p>The Yellow Handkerchief also stars William Hurt and Maria Bello in a romance/road trip movie that also serves as a love letter to the state of Louisiana.</p>
<p>Three characters &#8212; Stewart’s Martine, Hurt’s Brett and British actor Eddie Redmayne’s Gordy &#8212; head out on a journey upon which each is seeking to run away or to something redeeming.<br />
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<p><strong>SheKnows: The film was shot years ago, what is it like to think back to a film set before the Twilight phenomenon?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: Anytime you play someone who is not yourself, you’re stepping out of your comfort zone. That’s sort of what we do, and if the role is bigger, that is more to chew on and that’s always good (laughs).</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: Arthur Cohn serves as producer. As a winner of many Oscars, what did you take away from the Arthur Cohn experience?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: He has such a faith in the material. It’s a very old school sense of, “I’m the producer and I’m going to take care of everybody and the most important thing here is the movie and the performances.” And… chocolate (laughs)!</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: Loves his chocolate… now speaking of guys, perhaps not so valiant as Arthur Cohn, the men in your character’s life in The Yellow Handkerchief are hardly model citizens. What do you think it was about the character of Gordy that you believe made Martine fall in love with him?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: She wouldn’t have needed to be won over if she had just opened her eyes and not been so affected by the other guys who had hurt her. I think that she’s the type of girl who really wants to let her face hang out. Every time she does that or puts herself out there, she gets disappointed by people. I think the journey that they take, for me, the thing that made me see Martine fall for him was how Brett (Hurt) looks at him. It’s about a girl who is dropping prejudices that she didn’t know she had.</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: What was it like for you as a young actor to work with such a professional thespian as William Hurt?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: He is absolutely the most attentive, hard-working actor I’ve ever worked with and I say that about actors I like to work with, I say that about a lot of people, oh, they’re really hard working, I really appreciate them. But, he is absolutely, you don’t know more than him. Regarding a story, he makes you work so much harder to understand the movie. I would not have understood this movie as much as I do, I would have a completely different impression, I’m sure.</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: In the film, there’s three of you in a journey, but Maria Bello’s character hangs over the convertible like a ghost, but also, the geography is truly a fifth character. How do you see your character?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: My character was so sensitive and so explosive, just like…you would never expect from this tiny little thing so much…what is wrong with you? Her problems are so completely far away from anything that he could understand, it’s like opposite sides of a magnet that just (her voice gets louder) flip over!</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: The scene where you and Eddie Redmayne kiss, is the moment of the movie. Was there any, “Oh, my God” moments before filming?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: That was what I was most intimidated by technically speaking. Literally, I start from being completely, she’s so explosive and so emotional and so raw in that moment. It was a very defining moment for her. If you do that wrong, if it seems out of no where, if I seem like an explosive weird emotional girl for no reason, arbitrarily, that was what I was nervous about. The characters were drawn so wholly and completely that if we didn’t’ play them that way, it wouldn’t have made sense. But, the last scene of the movie, that was what I was really putting everything into because it was written differently.</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: Really…</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: When we got there, we didn’t have a whole lot of time to shoot. It was raining. It was like, “OK, we have 10 minutes to get this right.” Everything with her is so thin skinned, she feels everything so much. That moment when it all comes to fruition, it’s everything.</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: It is a road trip movie, but <em>The Yellow Handkerchief</em> was filmed in over 40 locations. Did that ever wear on you?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: It was cool because it was a road trip movie. It felt like we were on that.</p>
<p><strong>SheKnows: The shoot was in and around New Orleans and after Katrina, but did you get to get out into the city of New Orleans at all and discover it’s magic?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen Stewart: I was 17 when we shot this movie. I didn’t really get to… I love New Orleans. I’ve been there since. But, I’m still underage. New Orleans is such a &#8220;going out&#8221; town &#8212;  just walking around is awesome. It’s an amazing place to be and you go see great music. Well, you can stand outside the club (laughs). </p>
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		<title>Teen Hollywood &#8211; Kristen and Eddie’s Road Trip Romance</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before the “<em>Twilight</em>” phenomenon, a just turned 17-year-old Kristen Stewart was in the post-Katrina New Orleans area filming a sensitive, warm and romantic road trip film called <em>The Yellow Handkerchief </em>in which she plays a beautiful but rejected-by-guys teen ready for a new adventure in life.</p>
<p>At her side in the film is a very cute Brit actor named Eddie Redmayne (of <em>The Other Boleyn Girl</em>) who was surprised to be cast as a quirky, vagabond young American guy from Oklahoma!</p>
<p>These two share a few kisses in the film and were both nervous and anxious to do their “getting-to-know-you” scenes justice. We wanted to know which scenes intimidated Kristen and what she learned from bigtime actor William Hurt on the project.</p>
<p>Why were she and Eddie worried about their final kiss in the movie? You&#8217;ll find out.</p>
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<p>Kristen told us that she didn’t get to party in New Orleans because she was very underage (you might feel her pain).</p>
<p>We think Kristen is as sensitive as the character she plays in the film. When she talks about her teen character Martine, is she sort of talking about herself? Check out what else we learned about acting and this touching road trip movie from Kristen and her cute co-star!</p>
<p><strong>Q: This was probably your first big lead role in a film. Was that an adjustment to play the lead at that time?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: Anytime you have to play a person who is not yourself, you’re stepping out of a comfort zone but that’s what we do and if the role is bigger that’s just more to chew on and that’s always good.</p>
<p>Eddie: There is more of a sense of responsibility. What was great about this film is that it’s an ensemble piece in the sense that it really is about the four of us, I’m certain Kristen and I felt in incredibly safe hands having William (Hurt) and Maria (Bello) around us and because of the intensity of the film, having three of us in a car for three months shooting, we ended up being close as a trio which is wonderful because any fears or problems you have, you have the other two to turn to.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Kristen, your character Martine has bad luck with guys. Her dad has a new girlfriend and is sort of ignoring her and a guy at the first of the film kind of dumps her. So, what do you think it was about Eddie’s character Gordy than finally won her over?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I think she probably wouldn’t have needed to be won over had she just opened her eyes and not been so affected by the other guys who had hurt her. I think that she’s the type of girl who really wants to let her face hang out and every time she does that or puts herself out there, she get embarrassed or disappointed by people. I think the journey that they take, there are a lot of revelatory things that happen. For me, what really made Martine re-evaluate him was how Brett (the Hurt character) looked at him and moreso, there’s this thing that happens; we hit a deer with the car and he does this thing and she has this…. (pausing)</p>
<p>Eddie: Emotional reaction to it.</p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah. There you go. And, he helps me earlier as well. It’s about a girl who is dropping prejudices as well that she really didn’t know she had. She’s becoming more open to people. She was very closed off in the beginning and realizes ‘I don’t want to be like that actually at all’.</p>
<p>Eddie: A lot of the film is about prejudice, pre-judgment.</p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah.</p>
<p>Eddie: And that’s what I love about it. Even though these characters have been prejudiced against, they also have their own prejudices and that’s what’s kind of overwhelming about all of it.</p>
<p>It’s about everyone dropping their guard and seeing people for who they really are beneath the veneer. Whether it’s the eccentric quality of Gordy or the self-guardedness of Martine or just the holding back of the Brett character, it’s about seeing through that translucency and finding something real.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Eddie, how much a fish out of water did you feel when you started this movie and when did it click in and you felt a part of the movie and America?<br />
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Eddie: That’s a wonderful question. The truth of the matter is, when I got sent the script and asked to audition for it, I thought it was madness, I thought it was absurd and I said ‘really? Go to New York and audition for this? Guys, it’s never gonna happen’ (Kristen is laughing). ‘It’s playing an adopted Native American from northern Oklahoma. Do you really think it’s gonna happen?’ (laughter).</p>
<p>I’d never gone to an audition caring less because I didn’t think I had a snowball’s chance in Hell and I went in five minutes, threw this ridiculous audition down, left the room not caring what was going on ‘I’ll never hear back from that’. And, when it did happen, Udayan (Prasad) the director, coaxed me into it.</p>
<p>On set one of our first days, I was terrified. I’d done lots of work with a dialect coach and done some research but it was like ‘right, f**k it! Here goes!’ (laughter) It was a deep breath and I was well aware that I could end up with egg on my face. But ‘why not give it a shot’. (we think he was wonderful in the movie).</p>
<p><strong>Q: Did either of you have a particularly challenging scene or one that you were either not looking forward to or wanted to get to so badly that you couldn’t wait?</strong></p>
<p>Eddie: I had one scene when we’re in the motel and it’s pouring with rain outside and we kiss. I got to kiss her for the first time and (I say), ‘If I kiss you, then all the temptation will go away’ and she’s like ‘really?’</p>
<p>Kristen: And she’s like, ‘really’? (laughter)</p>
<p>Eddie: It’ll go away? But it was only because the producer kept saying ‘this is the scene’ and I’m like ‘This is the scene? How much can my eyes do in this scene to make it work?’</p>
<p>Kristen: That really was ‘the scene’ too. It was really a big deal, especially the way it was written. My character was so explosive and so sensitive and just like (frustrated breath). You would never expect from this tiny little thing, so much. Like (her saying) ‘what is wrong with you?’</p>
<p>Her problems are so far away from anything that he could understand. You have these two things like opposite sides of a magnet that just ‘flip them over!’ You know what I mean?</p>
<p>Eddie: On stage you could have an hour to build up to that explosion whereas when you’re filming on set, Kristen has to wipe away the tears. ‘Cut! Sorry the focus was wrong. Cut! And go again, ‘stop!’ It completely cools her freaking out and it’s tricky. It’s just different.</p>
<p>Kristen: And even watching this, I’d already seen the movie once but I’m like ‘bluh (negative?) okay’.</p>
<p><strong>Q: So that would be your scene too?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: That was what I was most intimidated by just technically speaking in that she’s so explosive in that scene and so emotional and so raw in that moment and you don’t know her yet very well. It was a very defining moment for her. If you do that wrong, if it seems out of nowhere, if I seem like an explosive, weird, emotional girl for no reason arbitrarily, that’s what I was nervous about.</p>
<p>The characters were drawn so wholly and completely that, if we didn’t play them that way, it would not have made sense. It would have been like ‘this is a bit of a random story’ because it’s so quaint. It’s not like all these plot events happen so all of the little character things….</p>
<p>Eddie: What’s unspoken.</p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah, yeah. So I was nervous about that but the last scene of the movie is what I really was putting everything in. It was written differently as well. We were in a car and they went further. They drove away and wanted to come back and see something.</p>
<p>We got there and didn’t have a whole lot of time to shoot and it was raining and it was like ‘okay, we’ve got ten minutes to get this’. The way it was written, she was so emotional. Everything effects her. She’s thin-skinned and feels everything so much and that moment where everything comes to fruition, she’s deeply affected.</p>
<p>Eddie: And there is an ambiguity to that. It’s not ‘oh, they lived happily ever after’. I think it worked in the film where we are there and we watch them (Hurt and Bello) together but we’re not comfortable yet together.</p>
<p>Kristen: At all! It’s not we’re together now and they’re together. It’s like we’re parents looking at our kids (kissing and) going ‘awww’.</p>
<p>Eddie: You’re right. It’s so much in the script. We both read the script and reacted incredibly emotionally to it. But, there is so much on the set. That’s why it’s both a dream for actors and a challenge for actors, this film, because it’s about filling in the spaces and making the people who are idiosyncratic people feel real.</p>
<p>That last moment, if we had played it slightly close together (he pulls her closer), it would have told a completely different story for the ending.<br />
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Q: What was it like for you, as young actors working with cool, experienced actor William Hurt?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah, we’ve been talking about that all day. He’s absolutely the most attentive hardworking actor I’ve ever worked with. I say that a lot about actors that I Iike to work with. I say that about a lot of people ‘oh they’re really hard-working. I really appreciate them’ but he is absolutely, you don’t know more than him.</p>
<p>But, regarding the story, he just makes you work so much harder to understand. I wouldn’t understand this movie as I do if it wasn’t for him. I’d have a completely different impression I’m sure.</p>
<p>Eddie: He would have us in his trailer reading a book of short stories about the South. It was so important to him that a fifth character in the piece was Louisiana about getting under the skin of what that place was about. It was never-ending, his commitment to it. A lot of people including myself, when I started doing films, see people turning up at premieres in fancy dresses and say ‘oh, these actors swan from one thing to another’ but I’ve never seen someone work with such continual commitment that, for both of us, it raised our game, no question.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Any particular example of how he helped you guys?</strong></p>
<p>Eddie: Not only would he help us, but there were three of us in a car and in one scene, just after a fight has broken out at this store, William drives off the car quickly and it’s the first time that Gordy breaks and says ‘I can’t deal with this’ and Kristen and I sat in the back of the car having this conversation and William is driving, he kept giving us ideas.</p>
<p>Kristen: And he didn’t look back, he just kept driving (she indicates him holding the steering wheel staring straight ahead) (laughter).</p>
<p>Eddie: And there’s also a risk on film, you feel like you have to underplay things and he was like ‘go for it’. He gave us the balls to go for it and to lose fear. Yeah, we learned a lot.</p>
<p><strong>Q: How big a challenge was 43 different locations?</strong></p>
<p>Eddie: We were all over the place.</p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah. We were everywhere. It was cool though because it was a road trip movie so we felt like we were on that a little bit.</p>
<p>Eddie: And the continuity was the car so we had this thing that did become part of us.</p>
<p>Kristen: That’s such a cool idea.</p>
<p>Eddie: And what’s lovely is often, on film, you have hundreds of different people coming in doing various things and camera angles but because there were three of us geographically confined by the space of the car it meant that people had to kind of stay out. It was the actors so we could work together.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Did either of you get to go have fun in New Orleans at all or were you busy shooting every day.</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I think I was 17 but, if I was, I was freshly 17. I’d just turned 17 so I didn’t really go out. I love New Orleans and I’ve worked there since…also underage. I’m sooo underage and New Orleans is such a ‘going out’ town that just walking around is awesome.</p>
<p>It’s an amazing place to be. You can go see music but you have to stand outside the club and be like (she looks sad), oh great. (laughter).</p>
<p>Eddie: Awwww</p>
<p>You were awesome in the movie. So believable.</p>
<p>Kristen: (smiles) Oh, thank you!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <em>The Yellow Handkerchief,</em> actress Kristen Stewart plays Martine, a lonely and troubled teenager who heads out on a road trip with Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), a young man looking to get closer to her, and Brett (William Hurt), an ex-convict, just released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter, who is trying to reconcile himself with his past. The trio are all going in the same direction, but quickly find their relationships forging and changing in many ways.</p>
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At the press day for the film, Kristen Stewart talked about what drew her to this smaller, independent film. She also gave an update on her own feeling about whether<em> Breaking Dawn</em>, the final book in the Twilight Saga, should be split into two films, how excited she is about the March release of <em>The Runaways</em> and her hopes to make the drama K-11 with her mother at the helm.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What was it like to play this character, when you hadn&#8217;t done too many major roles, at the time you did this film?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: Anytime you have to play a person who is not yourself, you&#8217;re stepping out of a comfort zone, but that&#8217;s what we do. If the role is bigger, that&#8217;s just more to chew on, and that&#8217;s always good.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What about Martine resonated for you?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I can relate to her, in that she&#8217;s such the typical girl that really wants to be out there and smiling and totally in the middle of whatever is going on, but has been embarrassed one too many times and has just gone, &#8220;I can&#8217;t do that anymore.&#8221; I feel like she&#8217;s also isolated herself. She&#8217;s put herself above everyone else. She can&#8217;t talk to people because they&#8217;ve let her down too many times and, in reacting to that, she made herself better than them. And, through this journey, which is such a cool thing to see such a young person go through, she realizes, &#8220;Oh, God, I never looked at you and now I&#8217;m opening my eyes and I can see you, and I was wrong.&#8221; I liked that.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Did you know this film was based on a Japanese film, and did you see that original film?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I knew it was based on a Japanese original, but didn&#8217;t watch it because apparently it was just starkly different. It was just a different movie completely.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What was producer Arthur Cohn&#8217;s involvement with the film?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: He had such a faith in the material. He has a very old school sense of, &#8220;I&#8217;m the producer and I&#8217;m going to take care of everybody, and the most important thing here is the movie, the performances, and chocolate and watches.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Q: Your character doesn&#8217;t have any luck with guys, from her father who leaves to the guy who dumps her at the beginning of the film. What was it about Gordy (Eddie Redmayne) that you think appealed to Martine?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: She probably wouldn&#8217;t have needed to be won over, had she just opened her eyes and not been so affected by the other guys who had hurt her. She&#8217;s the type of girl who really wants to let herself hang out. Every time she does that or puts herself out there, she gets disappointed by people. The journey that they take, a lot of revelatory things happen.</p>
<p>For me, what made Martine re-evaluate Gordy was how Brett (William Hurt) looked at him. And then, there&#8217;s this thing that happens when we hit a deer and he had this really emotional reaction to the deer. He helps her out earlier as well. She&#8217;s dropping prejudices that she didn&#8217;t really know that she had. She&#8217;s becoming more open to people. She&#8217;s very closed off, in the beginning, and realizes that she doesn&#8217;t actually want to be like that at all.</p>
<p><strong>Q: As a young actor, what was it like to work with someone like William Hurt?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: He is absolutely the most attentive, hard-working actor I&#8217;ve ever worked with. I say that about actors that I like to work with. I say, &#8220;Oh, they&#8217;re really hard-working, I really appreciate them,&#8221; about a lot of people, but you don&#8217;t know more than him about basically everything. Regarding the story, he just makes you work so much harder to understand things. I wouldn&#8217;t understand this movie as I do, if it wasn&#8217;t for him. I would have a completely different impression, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Were there any particular scenes in this that stood out for you?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: That scene where we first kiss was THE scene. It was a really big deal, especially the way it was written. My character was so explosive and so sensitive. You would never expect so much from this tiny little thing. It was like, &#8220;What is wrong with you?&#8221; And, her problems are so completely far away from anything Gordy could ever understand. It&#8217;s like opposite sides of a magnet. I can&#8217;t even watch that scene.</p>
<p>That was what I was most intimidated by, technically speaking. She&#8217;s so explosive and emotional in that scene, and so raw in that moment, and you don&#8217;t know her very well yet. It was a very defining moment for her, so I was nervous about doing that wrong and having it seem out of nowhere. I didn&#8217;t want her to seem like an arbitrarily weird, emotional girl, for no reason.</p>
<p>The characters were drawn so wholly and completely that, if we didn&#8217;t play them that way, they wouldn&#8217;t have made sense. It would have been a bit of a random story because it&#8217;s so quaint. It&#8217;s not like all these plot events happen. So, all these little character things are unspoken. I was nervous about that. But, the last scene of the movie was what I really put everything into because it was written differently as well. We got there and we didn&#8217;t have a whole lot of time to shoot. It was raining and they were like, &#8220;Okay, we have 10 minutes to get this.&#8221; The way it was written, she was so emotional. Everything affects her. She has such thin skin and feels everything so much. That moment where everything comes to fruition, it needs to be effective.<br />
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Q: Have accents always come easy for you?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I had to go to school for it, so they could break it down. There&#8217;s 15 accents, just within Louisiana. And then, you can fall back on it.<br />
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Q: What was it like to shoot in so many different locations?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: We were everywhere. But, it was cool though because it&#8217;s a road trip movie, so we felt like we were on that a little bit. The set just went around everywhere.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Did you get to have any fun in New Orleans at all, or where you working too much?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: We shot in the summer, so I had just turned 17. I love New Orleans. I&#8217;ve worked there since, also underage. I&#8217;m still underage. New Orleans is such a going-out town, but just walking around is awesome. It&#8217;s an amazing place to be. I can go see music, but I have to stand outside the club and be like, &#8220;That&#8217;s really great.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Q: Is there anything about New Orleans that you specifically enjoyed?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I liked petting the mules that walked around Jackson Street. They were like, &#8220;Come on, take a ride!,&#8221; and I was like, &#8220;No way!&#8221; I just wanted to pet them. I wasn&#8217;t going to be dragged around by this thing.<br />
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Q: When you have the opportunity to take a road trip yourself, do they become profound journeys of self-discovery?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: The only road trip that I&#8217;ve ever taken was back from Portland. When I was up there doing Twilight, I bought a little truck and drove home. It wasn&#8217;t the most transformative experience, but it was fun. It gave me a sense of freedom. I was going away from something that was a rather intense experience.<br />
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Q: Because you spend huge amounts of time away from home, when you go somewhere on location, do you try to make it more like home or do you really drown yourself in the lifestyle, wherever you&#8217;re at?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I try to do that. I know actors who go on location and make their trailer like their home. They literally put pictures up and stuff. I don&#8217;t do that. I really like being where I am. You&#8217;re made to pretend that you actually live there.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Since you have your pick right now, what attracts you to a role? What do you look for when you get a script these days?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: As much as you can say, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to do this because it&#8217;s different from what I&#8217;ve done before,&#8221; I can&#8217;t really plan things out like that. Despite whether or not a character fits my description and the script is good, what actually drives me to do something like this, which is a really bizarre thing, if you think about it, is more than just to be in a movie. It has to speak to me, in some way, and that&#8217;s always hard to describe. I don&#8217;t know what I want to do. And, this is the first time I don&#8217;t have my next job lined up. I have a totally clean horizon and that&#8217;s actually pretty exciting.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Is that a scary place to be, not knowing what you&#8217;re going to do next, in a business that&#8217;s so unpredictable?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: To be honest, you don&#8217;t look at scripts that are very clearly just framework and they just want to put a dollar sign in the picture frame, but that&#8217;s so obvious. I only want to do work that I find to be moving, and that&#8217;s something that I can&#8217;t be specific about. I&#8217;m totally lucky and I can&#8217;t believe that I have more opportunity than I&#8217;ve ever had. It&#8217;s awesome.</p>
<p><strong>Q: You did this film before the Twilight films. Would you have approached things differently, now that you have this international profile?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I guess because I don&#8217;t hold the reins, I really follow my heart. It would really be a shame that just because I did one movie, and I know it&#8217;s four or five films, but it&#8217;s one story and one project for me because it&#8217;s the same character, it would affect choices that I make. I don&#8217;t have this scheme for how people are going to receive my movies, in the order that I do them, and why I do scary movies or movies about disaffected teens, which I get all the time. They&#8217;re just people that I really wanted to play. I don&#8217;t know what the hell I&#8217;m doing. I&#8217;m just playing parts that speak to me.<br />
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Q: Do you follow your heart when you&#8217;re acting as well?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: Yeah. You get hired on a job and I had had roles in movies before, that I took really seriously and really liked, and I learned that, if I was a fairly impulsive actor or I felt something, I didn&#8217;t need to sit down and go, &#8220;Okay, this is why,&#8221; and it helps so much. I understand the story so much more because of that.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What are your feelings on Breaking Dawn? Do you think they&#8217;re going to do two films? Do you know when that will happen?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: Probably in November, but I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s going to be one or two films.</p>
<p><strong>Q: Are you contracted for two movies, or are you contracted for one?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: I don&#8217;t know, actually. I can&#8217;t imagine that they wouldn&#8217;t want to do two films. The story so completely warrants two films, and it would be really disappointing to have to lose a bunch of the story. I would like to do it as two movies, but to be perfectly honest, I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re going to do.</p>
<p><strong>Q: The Runaways is getting a lot of buzz now too. How has that been, and what has the experience of the festival circuit been like?</strong></p>
<p>Kristen: We all knew that, if it did well, it would be a Sundance movie. But, now it&#8217;s being released. It became a bigger deal than we thought, which is just always very exciting. Sundance was awesome. I love Sundance. It&#8217;s one of the only places that you can go, show your movie, and then talk to 300 people who just saw it. It&#8217;s just a different experience.</p>
<p><strong>Q: What&#8217;s it like when your mom calls you and says, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to direct a film and I&#8217;d like you to be in it&#8221;?<br />
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Kristen: I wish it was like that. We&#8217;re trying to get it (K-11) off the ground. If she called me right now and said, &#8220;We&#8217;re making the movie,&#8221; I would be really excited. We&#8217;re really close and, at the same time, we&#8217;re creatively very, very different. It would be cool. I think that we could actually leave the family thing. I feel like we both like what we do so much that we could actually work on something and do something pretty cool</p>
<p>THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF opens on February 26th .</p>
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