NEW YORK – Almost precisely two years ago, Kristen Stewart was hunched in a dark corner of the Tribeca Grand hotels restaurant, sipping a glass of white wine and relentlessly scanning the room. There was nothing she loathed more than people spotting her, gawping, and then pretending it hadnt happened. On the flip side, she also detested that feeling of being openly stared at, which accompanies most famous people when theyre spotted out doing things like eating or drinking or pumping gas. And it definitely is part and parcel of being one-half of the planets most notable vampire couples, as was the case when Stewart, 24, headlined the Twilight saga as Bella Swan. Yet on this sunny, breezy afternoon, at the Greenwich Hotel, it all feels like a lifetime ago for Stewart. She still repeatedly glances around the room, but shes visibly more relaxed, easy, even outgoing in her own way. Im really happy right now, overly happy. Im definitely not looking furtively – I like to look around at (stuff). I feel great. Im not overcoming fear right now, she says. Back when she was last working the promotional circuit, she was on the tail-end of the centurys Great Love Triangle, involving her, Robert Pattinson and then-married director Rupert Sanders, whom shed been spotted kissing. Stewart never discussed what followed: the kind of public flaying usually reserved for wayward politicians, if anyone at all. During that final Twilight push, says Stewart, I was scared of so many things. I was not overcompensating but just compensating. So she finished her required amount of press, kept her head down, and shot seven films back to back. The first one to garner major attention is Camp X-Ray, out in limited release and starring Stewart as a wide-eyed army private assigned to Guantanamo Bay. She has never heard of the German city of Bremen, has never read a Harry Potter book, when shes faced with political prisoners hurling feces at the military personnel. And she comes to understand just how complex the whole war on terror is.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:43:09 +0000
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