Here are some new photos of Kristen Stewart arriving at LAX (the pics where she’s carrying the Chanel bag, naturally because that’s why she gets paid by Karl Lagerfeld) and then out and about in Santa Monica with a friend. The friend is Alicia Cargile, who has been close to Kristen for years. A month ago, Star Mag even ran a story about how Kristen and Alicia are quietly dating nowadays, that their friendship blossomed into a romantic relationship following Kristen’s split with Sparkles. I don’t know the real story – if they’re just friends, good for them. If they’re romantically involved, good for them.
Meanwhile, Kristen got some of the best reviews of her life with Clouds of Sils Maria, the film which debuted at Cannes and stars Kristen, Juliette Binoche and Chloe Moretz. Kristen didn’t have time to do wall-to-wall press, but she did sit down for a handful of interviews, including this decent piece with the Wall Street Journal. You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:
Why she signed on to Clouds of Sils Maria (where she plays an actress’s PA): “The reason this movie was made was not to make a statement about how superficial media can be, but it was a lot of fun for me to be the one to say it. Obviously, I’ve had more experience with the media, so it makes it funnier.”
Playing a PA: “I don’t a have a personal assistant right now, but I have had one in the past and I definitely understand the dynamic. The difference is that I never had such a co-dependent relationship.”
Kristen “coached” Juliette Binoche: “When we were getting out the car to walk up the red carpet, Juliette just like opened the door and started to get out. I said, ‘what are you doing? A star would never do that!’”
How she views her career: “When I take on a role, I really like to think, and I do not care what people think about them afterwards. I really want the experience. I think a lot of actors—not good ones—are just product oriented, as is the business. American movies are so packaged and delivered. They think for you. Like the stories in the tabloids—they’re so easily consumable. But that said, I love big American movies—they’re my foundation, what I grew up on—and I still want to do them.”
Getting to work after Mini-Cooper-Gate: “I didn’t make a movie for a really long time because I didn’t get offered anything that I liked. I didn’t work for two years.”
[From the Wall Street Journal]
I half-believe her. I believe that she wasn’t offered many good scripts and that’s partly why she wasn’t working following her affair with Rupert Sanders. But I also believe that Hollywood wasn’t sure what to do with her following the affair, and some people (like, say, Ben Affleck) didn’t want to work with an actress who was considered “radioactive” in the tabloids. As for Kristen “coaching” Binoche… I’m sure that was super-special. Binoche could eat K-Stew for breakfast.
Kristen also talks about how she wants “to start directing” in the WSJ piece, which is good timing because she directed the music video for Sage + the Saints’ “Take Me to the South”. The lead singer looks so much like Kristen. This video has too many jumpy edits.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Um she did twilight. So.
But that was a really deep love story. Trilogy. Thing.
So was snow white and the huntsman.
Just own up to making popcorn movies for $$. There’s nothing wrong with it.
Yeah, but she was 17 when she did it, and none of them ever expected for the movie to get as successful and popular as it did.
Which is kinda sad, because I’m of the belief that the first Twilight movie is the only halfway decent one out of all four films–the only one I’d ever watch again. And I was completely over Twilight by the time the second movie came out.
Yeah – I agree. What she may have thought was ‘thinking-acting’ when she was 17 may have matured in the intervening years. And the first Twilight is OK – I’ve seen much worse!
I agree. As cheesey as Twilight is I love the first movie and own a blue ray copy. I don’t care how much people complain about the steel guitar playing and the music, I love it all. I saw it in theatres 3 times but have only watched the others because a step-kid or someone else wanted me to go and only read the first book. I was alone and decided to rent the final one thinking I should finish the series but it was so stupid I couldn’t get past the first 10 minutes. I love to make fun of Twilight and I was embarrassed when I snuck away alone to watch the first one and was laughing along with the other males in the audience but I loved it. I even laughed for hours at all the crappy reviews and negative comments about the book, and agreed with most of them, but I still like it.
Agree. Also, her past film history is telling that she’s a 1 note vague stare lip-bitey actress that doesn’t get good roles because she’d bring down the film.
IMO she’s only remembered post Twighlight because of the MiniCooper incident. If not for that she’d be in Taylor Lautner’s shoes.
Protein shake in the Chanel bag? Ugh.
Ha! Yes, this is from the girl who brought us the cinematic brilliance of TWILIGHT. And the commercials for Balenciaga and Chanel, such the artiste! GMAB.
Listen, I don’t blame her for signing on for endorsements or for the huge Twilight paydays but don’t sit there and criticize your fellow actors when you do the very same thing you’re accusing them of.
Does she really think she’s above it all and better than her peers? Does she really not get it?
I can’t believe she said that. Well I can, she often doesn’t think, really think what she is saying. Don’t believe in product placement, then why are you fronting campaigns?
I agree and this is why she annoys me. She’s very photogenic but she says things that seem quite hypocritical when you star in Twilight and shill perfume.
And there she goes again, passive aggressively dissing other actors for not being as purely artistically motivated as the actress from Twilight and the spokesperson for Balenciaga and Chanel. But of course she still wants to do those big movies herself. It’s just that her motives won’t be product oriented like those other sell outs.
Also every clip I’ve seen from this movie, every review I’ve read makes it seem like the same monotone, emotionless performance she always gives.
I agree. I really, really try to like her acting, but she’s just the same in every role she lands. She even dresses almost the same (like herself) like it’s in her contract that she’ll only wear clothes from her wardrobe.
And this passive aggressive crap – dissing the big flicks one minute but then “oh I’d totally do one, though!” in the next breath. ugh.
But a lot of actors are. I adore Emma Stone, but she’s Emma Stone in almost every role. So is Cameron Diaz. Or Sofia Vergara.
I’ll agree on Vergara, but then I also don’t see her being propped up as the actress of her generation either. Diaz and Stone have both shown greater range than Kristen ever has.
So she doesn’t want to take projects that focus on the end-game product… unless it’s a fashion house, perfume line, or franchise(s)
I hope her part in that flick is as funny as she says it is, because she talks about acting like she discovered plutonium.
And what’s with that music video? Is she trying for ‘Gravity’ with those angles and cutaways? When will KStew get hit in the head with space debris?
I just went through a solid 6 months where she seemed like an alright lady, now… can we just send her off to sea?
Ha!
product oriented? you mean, they want the product to be something that people will watch? kristen, the best actresses all have one thing in common–great work product. FFS. Why are you an actor of you don’t care what people think? Isn’t that the whole point of creating visual art? So, acting for her is just one huge vanity project, where you get to play with stuff and pretend to be other people? She sounds like a toddler.
This is what I got too, she doesn’t create for the audience, she creates for herself, and f-off if you don’t like it, basicallly.
I guess I undersand what she is attempting to say, but it comes off sounding like she is the most vain person on the planet. She makes it very hard to root for her (not that she cares about stuff like that).
“A star would never do that”? Oh please. This girl is not fit to hold Binoche’s handbag, let alone offer advice.
On second thought…selling an image is about the only thing she could advise Binoche on. The difference between European acting royalty and ex-child stars raised in Hollywood. Oy.
I’m almost certain that was sarcasm.
I took it as an anecdote to illustrate how grounded and humble Binoche is.
*shrugs*
from the original article:
“Going on what Stewart has experienced “in real life”, she says, there were moments during the shoot when the actress coached her co-star, Juliette Binoche, to make her performance more believable. “When we were getting out the car to walk up the red carpet, Juliette just like opened the door and started to get out. I said, ‘what are you doing? A star would never do that!’”
I see no sarcasm here. Fault the journalist if there was and he failed to emntion it, but chances are maybe there actually was no sarcasm.
From the original article it sounds exactly like sarcams to me, it shows how down to earth Juliette is, just like @TheOriginalKitten said.
About Binoche yes. It also says KS “coached” Binoche. I see no sarcasm there.
Well, let’s agree to disagree, but it really puzzles me how you can NOT see sarcasm in that paragraph.
The word “coached” was said by the journalist, no?
I did not read sarcasm, it would assume she did not intend for it to sound insulting but if it was a joke or sarcasm it was not funny or well-delivered.
It’s not laught out funny, but it’s cute.
Jesus, and then we wonder why the world thinks we Americans don’t get sarcasm.
European actors open their own doors, they don’t need to have doors open for them. Having others open doors for you is very gouache. It’s how we roll in Europe.
I thought opening doors was all about the manners.
LOL, I don’t know what Europe you live in but my European step-father would NEVER let a lady open a door.
She comes across really well in this article, she seems to be more mature.
The comment about Juliette is obviously a joke.
I think she came across well, too.
I can’t believe people took that comment seriously. It screams sarcasm.
‘I think a lot of actors -not good ones- are just product oriented’
Girl, aren’t you the face of a perfume and a Chanel line? And she does not need to be talking about ‘not good’ actors with her lack of range… A seat. Have one Kristen.
I mean, she did Twilight and SWATH so the talk about easily consumable American movies is funny. She sure is self aware huh ?
I really love that hair colour on her even with the annoying roots. She’s super pretty and lucky that she can rock pretty much any hair. There isn’t a hair colour that doesn’t look good on her, jealous tbh. Was it dyed for the soldier movie thing that she’s doing?
Oh and her girlfriend looks like Matt Smith with a wig.
Will we get a visit from boopti aka tinyjones today or is she busy working ‘behind the scenes’ in the business ?? Maybe she’s preparing to be Kristen’s wet nurse after the birth of her and Rob’s baby. Oh boopti (tinyjones) doing gods work.
i do love her hair color right now, it looked great in Cannes, when it was clean.
I hate that colour on her. Especially with the roots. She looks best as a brunette. She is very pretty, lucky her.
I think she’s a cute blonde too.
The roots are ridic for sure but I doubt she’ll keep it that way for too long.
“I think a lot of actors—not good ones—are just product oriented, as is the business”
Help me to understand, so since she is also “product oriented” being the face of Chanel and something else.
Is she saying she isn’t good actor?
Also product oriented means caring about the product or quality – isn’t that a good thing?
The first thing that went through my mind was, “You mean products like Chanel?”
I agree. The comment was meant to be sarcastic. And it is obvious that the reporter liked Kristen and the interview. So I don’t think the reporter was put off by Kristen comments. The reporter did not write is as if she was dissing other actor. Kristen was telling what she believes it the truth. That some actors are in it for the money. Can anyone say that is a lie? She also does not put down big budget Hollywood movies. She says she loves them, she grow up on them and they are her foundation. She does a big budget if she loves the scripts Kristen is doing what most of us do, she is trying to find and work at something she loves. Whether it is a indie movie, big budget, Balenciago or Chanel.
That song is god awful.
oh drop some more truth on us Kristen!
bbbbbbbbbbbooooooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg
She’s a very limited actress and she’s very bad at film promotion. It’s always about how she’s above it.
No one is punished in Hollywood for adultery. They are punished for overshadowing the opening of two films with personal drama. Don’t mess with the money.
It’s never about her being professionally accountable, it’s always about how the people who pay her are shallow for expecting her to wash her face for premieres.
I still don’t buy the adultery story. It’s all about the PR game….
You’re right, a cospiracy was put into place, with a team of photoshop experts busy manipulating 50 pics. For what purpose? Give her and the director a bad reputation? She also obviously apologised for something that she did not do? Makes sense, right?
RME
Kristen Stewart is best known for three things….
1. Twilight
2. Banging Robert Pattinson
3. Banging her married director
Where she gets off thinking she’s above anyone else is beyond me.
I want to like her, i do, but when she speaks everything about her just screams, ‘take me really seriously’. Well, i would love to but she’s done nothing to warrant that. I would say that she’s more of a celebrity than she is an actress at this moment, though, who knows, maybe she’ll turn into an actor in the future. Trouble is, she’s been a weak link in every movie i’ve ever seen her in. With regards to the directing idea, does anybody actually tell her no? Surely she should hone her acting craft before she turns to directing?
What I take from this is that, while seeming to say she seeks peer validation as an actor, what Kristen Stewart really wants is everything – the fame, the notoriety, the endorsements, the power – she wants to be THE STAR. Good luck with that, sweetie . . .
She wants to be THE STAR, but she wants it without having to do anything but the acting part of it. It doesn’t work like that, Kristen. People who become THE STAR have their personal lives up for consumption as well, and are expected to do a little song and dance for the public now and then.
Spot on, PunkyMomma. She thought she’d be the big star of Twilight. Robert Pattinson stole her thunder and no one can tell me (whatever their relationship was) that she didn’t resent the hell out of him for that. I’m certain she thought she’d have the career Jennifer Lawrence has. The fact that post-Twilight she couldn’t get any better offers than Camp Xray and Sils Maria speaks volumes.
I agree with Kaiser. I half-believe Kristen. She didn’t accept any roles for 2 years because she wasn’t offered any good ones. Heck, even the ones she did take weren’t that good. If she signed on for Camp Xray you can imagine how bad the rest were. Had she been offered better scripts she would’ve taken them. You can only choose from what you’re offered.
Here to second your assessment of that T’light situation bet her and Rob P. Anyway, per this interview, she still evidently can’t acknowledge she does the same thing she decries in others- if carrying a Chanel bag off a plane isn’t “product placement”, what is? It’s splitting hairs to argue it’s not in a movie.
Um. Punkymomma, you are aware she has ALL of that now, right? Lol
Y’all, colour me crazy but I think the ‘product oriented’ comment is spot on. I took it to mean that Hollywood cares way more about BO results and not as much for the quality of its creation. That everything about the process is more superficial than it should be.
Hollywood is fakey-fakey and I now relish other countries productions because you can find quality stuff there.
But Kristen is 100% part of the problem, which is why people are eye-rolling. You don’t get to throw shade at others for being sell-outs when you’re the face of two franchises and two fashion houses. NO actress out there right now is as “product based” as Kristen Stewart, not even JLaw. Kristen’s entire persona as a fake rebel is why she’s famous, not her talent.
This is one VERY deluded person. I can’t help but scoff anytime she discusses acting because she refers to it as a “craft”. She makes it seem really difficult and, in a way, it must be because with all her chin wagging about how much effort she puts into her roles, she still really sucks… like, a lot. I have yet to understand what others see in her. She’s a completely one dimensional actress who is only capable of playing herself again and again. And, like her real life persona, all of her characters lack eloquence and the ability to speak without sounding like they’ve gotten lost in their thoughts. It kills me to watch her “act”. It’s always so awkward and painful. I suffer second-hand embarrassment every single time. And yet, here she is, putting herself on a pedestal.
Right!!? I did not find her believable as Snow White. She can’t act to save her life.
Yet most of the critics at Cannes thought she was in the top three of all the actors, male and females. And many believe that she would win the top acting prize.
I read the “coaching” comment as an extension of their characters in the movie. Not real-life “coaching” between actors/stars.
I like Kristen, even though she can come off as pretentious as heck sometimes. However, I also think people kind of believe “the worst” of her comments sometimes…
The journalist was the one who said the word “coached,” not her, but she said something similar in a different interview and it was said with a laugh. I took it as obvious sarcasm, and related to the characters they were playing (e.g. she’s her P.A., and Juliette is supposed to be playing this aging actress who the P.A. tries to get the best for). As far as the product placement, it does sound pretentious but she admits that she herself does it and that it has its place. Th film apparently has a big section about Hollywood and product placement versus European cinema, so if she turned around and said that she believed the opposite it would be weird.
Just not sure why her saying that, even with adding on that she does it herself and that it has its place, is so much worse than the actors who criticize superhero films. I agree with Kaiser about her not filming for two years. I think part of it was that she was getting the kind of scripts that Ashley Greene was getting, and I think part of it was Hollywood was going to make her wait for a year or so for the scandal to blow over.
Imo that music video is as generic as the song it accompanies.
I would agree if she could act let alone try to emote in a scene.
I can’t help but like her, no matter what stupid shit she says.
And no, I’m not a twilight fan. I couldn’t get through the first book and I was only able to get through the films with the help of rifftrax.
I really, really dislike her. She was only great in two movies: Panic Room and Into the Wild. After that she just lip bites and eye rolls her way through her movies. I hated ‘On the Road’. I hated those Mormon vampire movies. She was the WORST thing about that Joan Jett movie. I would never pay money to see a K-stew movie. I hope she slowly fades away because she is terrible actress. Awful. And she thinks she’s some great artist? No.