Here are some photos of Kristen Stewart out and about in LA over the weekend. She stopped by a friend’s house and then she and a few girlfriends went out to lunch or something. I looked through all of the photos and I’m pretty sure one of the girls is Alicia Cargile, who may or may not be Kristen’s on-and-off girlfriend. I don’t know. Star Mag says Kristen and Alicia dated (or are dating). The official line, I suppose, is that Kristen may have gotten too close to Nicholas Hoult while filming Equals in Japan, but God knows. It feels like the first thing Kristen did upon returning to LA was go to see Alicia.
In other K-Stew news, Elle released their full September cover story online. We covered Kristen’s cover and interview excerpts here. You can read the full piece here – there’s SO MUCH ass-kissing, it’s not even funny. The Elle writer compares Kristen to Angelina Jolie and Elvis Presley. No joke. What’s really funny to me is that the interview takes place mostly as Kristen is driving around the Elle interviewer… in a Mini Cooper. Apparently, Kristen drives her mom’s black Mini Cooper sometimes, which makes me wonder… did Kristen Stewart bang her married director, Rupert Sanders, in her MOM’S CAR?! That’s so hardcore, Kris. For a 16 year old. There are also some additional quotes I wanted to pull:
Why she doesn’t like to make eye contact with strangers: “Because then you’re letting them in. But at the same time, you’re like, What, I don’t want to let anyone in? And, honestly, I’m super real with people. Incredibly. If someone’s really cool and nice and just wants to talk, I will f–king hang out and chat all day.”
Handling fame in the early days of Twilight: “I hadn’t carved out my spot, and people hadn’t gotten used to me yet. It was really f–king hard. I didn’t interview well. I was really nervous. People f–king didn’t respond that well.”
On her limitations as a dramatic actress: “Some people try to do that thing where you craft a character. I cannot be anyone other than who I am. If I can’t empathize with something [my character] does, it’s a problem. And sometimes I’ve had directors be like, It’s not you, Kristen, it’s the character. And I’m like, That’s the laziest thing you can possibly say to me. It is me. It’s definitely me.”
Sigh… so hardcore, Lip-biter. To me, saying “honestly, I’m super real with people” is the kind of thing snotty a—holes say to make themselves feel better. What, I’m just being SUPER REAL with you. You don’t get how super real I am. And I really don’t get her train of thought on her limitations as a dramatic actress – “That’s the laziest thing you can possibly say to me”??? Really? Is it lazier than getting paid millions of dollars to get typecast as an awkward lip-biter because you have the dramatic range of a wood splinter?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
“I cannot be anyone other than who I am.”
Acting, I don’t think you understand how it works. Because I’m sure Christian Bale is John Conner and Batman, Patrick Stewart is King John, and Liam Nelson is continuously chasing his stolen wife/daughter every five seconds. Please.
Right!?
Ha, she should really stop interviewing. She never does herself any favors.
Well than maybe acting just isn’t the right job for you, Kristen? I nearly pity the poor directors who have to work with her.
Imagine you try to tell her the basics of acting, which are to play another human being, and she’s just like “Oh you’re lazy, I’m just playing myself.”
Some celebritys really should have gone to school longer instead of being actors or whatever they think they are.
I’d like to see her say that to Meryl Streep. Meryl would probably order her off the set.
Yup. And while many of us use this quote often around these parts, it really applies in this case re: Stewart and Acting
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Daniel Day-Lewis, Kristen, is an actor. You, my dear, are the anti-actor.
Well, she pretty much summed up why people don’t really respond to her “acting”. She’s a sullen, angsty twit who has the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. Why would anyone pay to so see that for two hours?
+1. That’s why it’s called acting – you are being someone else, not who you really are but pretending to be someone else. There was once a weekly mystery show on TV. It had the same cast of 7 actors but the stories changed every week so the actors played a different character in a different story every week. That is acting range, Kristen, and that is what you do not appear to have (yet) or feel the need to have (yet). Nice to see this didn’t stand in the way of your getting really rich anyway.
Aren’t you an actress, honey?
No, she’s much too busy being “super real.”
Gurl, you’re drying paint. You’re the Sherwin Williams of the acting world. Own it before we downgrade you to Valspar.
This is the same idiot who blasted method actors for their “tool belt acting”. Some of the best actors of our time are method actors or studied method acting, and she can’t even handle breathing in a scene.
I thought she was a method actor?
@PunkyMomma
DUH. She’s playing herself in every role. Of course she’s method about it. That’s why we get the eye rolling and lip biting every time she’s in a movie. Don’t forget her patented sigh and hair brush to the side of her head when she’s annoyed.
Didn’t she contradict herself on that before? Claiming she needed to become her role to understand it.
She doesn’t have range and doesn’t seem willing to admit that. Everyone else who’s a better actor is just “fake”. Hmm..
@VC Until now I thought she was acting so weird because she was uncomfortable in front of camera, turns out she really is like that in real life( or so she says). I wouldn’t be able to spend five minutes with her.
@FLORC
She tends to contradict herself a lot. It wouldn’t surprise me.
Method acting is an actual school of acting, it is not some one walking in front of a camera with no experience and no plan. Method acting was developed by a Russian, Stanislavski, and the famous Strasburg school, in NYC, taught it.
Sounds about right.
To misquote Dorothy Parker …she runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
+100
Real people don’t have to say they are real. As for her acting comment, I’m not in the business so I know very little but isn’t acting not being yourself?
She’s not even a one-trick pony. Maybe half a trick. Nah, even that’s too generous.
Just a pony then?
Omg…too funny!!!
I need her to go away.
I came here to say something negative about this unlikable actress but she is pretty much being eviserated int he comments so i will just drink my coke
It’s funny that she admits that directors are TRYING to get her to act and she refuses to do it. I wonder if she may regret that statement at some point.
This is hilarious! Sweetie we know you aren’t a good actor but you’re not supposed to admit it! Does this girl have a publicist?
If she does he’s probably crying in a corner.
Biting his lip.
Such a bad dresser…
This chica is a case study against nepotism in Hollywood
Who pushed her to the top then? I don’t remember hearing this part. Do tell…..
Her parents are Hollywood Insiders plus some influential godparents or whatever dunno see below
http://www.imdb.com
John Stewart is an American TV producer. He’s also the father of actress Kristen Stewart. His wife, Jules Mann-Stewart is a script supervisor and director.
@andypandy to be fair I think it is actually widely acknowledged that she worked her way up – her parents are more like crew
Kristen parents are crew, they are backstage workers. All you have to do is look at her IMDb pager. Kristen started out as extra in a few movies. She gradually worked her way into bigger parts. She has been working since she was 8 or9. She paid her dues.
Total poseur.
She is now the measuring stick my husband use to determine how bad an actor or actress is. Like oh she’s bad but is she Kristen Stewart bad?
Bwahahahaha! I’ve been using that measurement since 2008.
Wow. She really doesn’t realize that it’s her *job* to pretend to be another person.
That being said, does the affair thing need to be mentioned in every post about her? I’m not saying that it wasn’t a sh*tty thing to do on her end, but everyone’s moved on from it. As this interview shows, there are plenty of other things to criticize her for should that be your thing.
That’s the thing about stupid, public mistakes, they tend to follow you. I don’t think she’s a horrible person, I don’t think she needs a scarlet letter on her clothes, but when you do stuff like she did, people remember it and they will bring it up forever. Mini-cooper-gate will never go away completely for her. On top of that, infidelity is a touchy issue for people, and many “fans” see it as a deal breaker plus she was unfaithful to the sparkly hero of those crappy romance movies. Too many strikes, this story will never die.
It’s fine to play pretty much yourself in every movie. That’s what movie stars does, real actors craft characters.
Bingo, Hannah. An actor is supposed to lose himself/herself in a character; not vice-versa.
I think it is the difference between a leading actor and a character actor. Not all actors are character actors.
No you can be a leading actor and loose yourself in character. Meryl Streep was a leading actress as a younger woman, deniro, pachino they were all leading actors. A movie star trades on their personality and pretty much plays the same character all the time.
@Tiffany – I see your point, but can Kristen Stewart even carry a movie or open one anymore?
I think Meryl, Deniro and Pachino are all character actors. They weren’t traditionally attractive, and it was their acting chops and the variety of characters they were able to play that made them household names. (I think in my original comment, I used “leading actor” when I meant “movie star”).
As for Stewart carrying a movie by herself or opening a movie by herself…If I had to guess, I would say possibly to question one, I haven’t seen enough of her work to be certain, though. Absolutely no to question 2.
I think there is a place for her in films, but I don’t think she is a character actor, and those are the ones that tend to get a lot of respect from me.
In general, character actors are supporting actors to the leading actor. Streep, Pacino, Deniro, are all leading actors. Some character actors cross over to leading roles but most do not.
It’s really not that simple to be yourself, and at ease in front of a camera. You do have to have talent, that she’s showed very well in Sils Maria, where she plays someone I imagine very very close to her personnality, but it’s a limited range.
I agree. It takes talent, but it is also limiting.
?? The only talent it takes is memorizing and delivering the lines naturally; considering she has been acting for what? more than 10 years she would have been hopeless if she couldn’t do even that by now.
Not talking about Stew specifically….
…but talking naturally on camera IS hard. The cameras, the crew, the lighting fixtures, the awkward angles, it is hard to be natural in such an unnatural environment.
OMG–seriously? This is PROOF that this chick can’t act. She said it herself. OMG. Hahaha.
my she is exhausting!!!
Isn’t she? She must suck the oxygen out of every room she enters.
your comment reminds me of a video where Kristen shouts at a paparazzi that he doesn’t deserve to breath the same air she breathes while she’s hiding behind a car in a parking lot/garage outside. hahaha
An actor is suppose to play different characters for each film role.
Way to go K-Stew. Limit yourself to angst-y teen roles until you get too old to play them. Then what are you going to do? You can’t run on the fumes of Twilight fame forever.
No, but she’ll live off of those Twilight millions for years to come.
My head… Well from what I understand from Kristens own words in different interviews she is telling us that she is bad actress, right? Here she straight out says that she can’t play different characters and do different stuff that role requires. And she say that she can only play herself….
Right? That’s what I hear. And then we wonder why her acting was so bad in Twilight and all other movies. She really can only play herself everywhere.
Well honey – if you can’t act, you don’t wnat to act, you can’t give interviews and can’t do porper promotion that what the hell are you still doing in this profession? Leave acting and do something els. Oh right – money. Everyone loves money.
And then in different interview she says that she is so popular and powerful that she can get any role she wants. Yeah right. You know I fell like Kristen believes that she is good actress and respected but she can only play herself. Because only idiots and fakers play different role in every movie, you all. Real actors should play only one role in very movie and be respectful actor and get millions of money. Is she really that stupid or what?
you nailed like no other. +++x1000
QQ on Kristen’s acting range : Moody, Lipbitey, all The Heavy Breaths (youd think she was doing background heavy breaths for a Britney Spears cd!)
QQ – least we forget the “eye-roll”.
The Eyeroll Musnt be Forgotten!! This is the deepest display of the Stewart School of Emotions
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vlQd9w0w_4
Whenever someone talks bout Kristen’s signature heavy breathing, this video comes to my mind. LOL.
Do you know what true acting is? Being able to play a character that is the complete opposite of you and to play them convincingly. That’s why all of the greats are great. Do you really think Daniel Day Lweis considered himself to be Daniel Plainview? Or Chalize saw Aileen Wuornos in herself? I get needing to feel empathy or sympathetic to a character. Or maybe even needing to recognize a trait in them but being the character? Is KStew method now? She thinks she’s Christian Bale?
But I’m obviously wasting my time typing that because no matter how hardcore she claims to be, she’s still just a sh-t actress pretending to be this great thespian that no one else can see. I guess she thinks if she convinces enough people, people will start thinking she’s actually really good at it. (Ha!) when will her Twilight fanbase disappear already so she can fade back into obscurity? I’m guessing Bella fan girls are the only thing keeping her alive at this point.
I couldn’t tell which one she was in that last picture. hahaha. She should have enough money now to drift off and not bother us movie fans anymore.
i hear this “im just so real” only from people who are jerks to others. you know they are REAL not fake nice. REAL.
Yes, like being authentic makes up for being rude and inconsiderate. I know the type.
Isn’t the point of acting to be someone other than who you are? So, that means KStew was trapped in a panic room when she was a kid… she was married to a vampire… she did fight an evil queen…
“Some people try to do that THING where you craft a
character”. Yeah, that thing is called acting (hence the word actor/actress).
Maybe she’s just trolling us. Like: I have acting range of an orange and I can still pick any role I want, so joke is on you.
She is ridiculously inarticulate. Reading or watching any interview with her is painful.
JFC, every time she does something that I like, she turns around and shoves her foot do far down her throat that I have no idea how she even has the vocal capability to say such stupid shit. I had a friend argue that she’s be as liked as J.Law if she wasn’t “introverted” and more outgoing, and I said BULLSHIT. I don’t care if you’re an introvert. Celebrity is your JOB. That means you show up, put a goddamn smile on your face, and at least pretend to be glad you’re there. I just can’t with her.
oh dear.
sigh. kristen. we understand. it’s hard. it’s hard being all of these different people all the time. do yourself a favor and just stop. we won’t miss it. you’ll feel better, we’ll feel better. and you can go back to just being yourself, whoever the hell that is.
She’s so insufferable, my God.
It sounds like she’s saying sometimes she can’t identify with a character she’s playing. *Shrugs*
but she’s also saying it’s someone else’s fault when she can’t. this is her MO. can’t learn? teachers. can’t act? directors. can’t do interviews? journalists. can’t look at people? people.
This just confirms why I have a problem with Kristen “first things first I’m darealyst” Stewart. I’ve always tried to give her acting a chance in movies but ultimately I always feel like I’m just watching her be herself. She is definitely one of the most limited actresses in her age range and it sounds like she’s too caught up in herself to emote properly.
My god, she is amazingly boring. I just don’t understand why you would publicize your lack of talent to the point where you are admitting that directors cannot make you do your job. Sigh…I’m soooooooooo laissez-faire-Karl loves me.
Has she EVER done an interview where she DOESN’T mention how real she is?
She’s basically describing how she espouses Method acting. Not the first, not the most illustrious, not the last. Chill.
You mean the method acting she has never studied? Method acting is something you study and learn, it is not stumbling into a giant movie franchise and relying on your super real talent while making no effort to learn acting or hone your skill.
So, this doctor was all “I can’t treat a patient who’s condition I don’t empathize with. It’s lazy for you to expect me to be someone I’m not in the operating room.”
If you can’t be anyone other than yourself, then you are in the wrong profession. Why is this dead as wood person still a thing? She’s not pretty and her acting is horrible!
If you’re honest and real, why not really just own your relationship with Alicia. Its not even a big deal. No one will be surprised. So you like guys and gals. Ok, great. But stop trying to convince us you’re real and authentic while totally being unreal and unauthentic. I love her tenacity, respect her perseverance but I desperately need her to grow up and borrow a dictionary – and for someone to tell her the best way to be real is to just BE. You don’t have to keep telling us because then its not real and she comes off as insecure and lacks identity.
Notice Kristen and Alicia both have on matching necklaces, all three ladies have matching arm tattoos in the same spot and Kristen has a A initial ring on. If you’re so real, why then do you look like a copycat. Did Alicia dress her up, tattoo her arm. Get real.
She tries so hard to be cool and being cool is all relative. She is trying to portray cool that she thinks is cool. Is she trying to be hardcore with that shirt I mean does she ride motorcycles now and is she a lesbian now too? Nothing wrong with being a lesbian by the way, its just that she tries so hard to be like a boy.
What is with that tattoo? isn’t it like a giant eye in a pyramid? What does that mean, why does everyone have these tattoos but yet nobody even knows what it means??? Sorry this is meant to be a reply to Corrie I accidently clicked the wrong reply button.
You guys, you just have to accept she’s more real than you. Than everyone.
Because you know when someone keeps proclaiming how real they are, they are very, very real.
Bitch please. Have a seat. Try the one in the corner with the dunce cap.
Kirsten take note:
Sir Ian McKellan helpfully explains the acting process to Ricky Gervais on Extras:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=685242018195567&fref=nf
I bow down to you for posting this!
I loooved Extras… and this was a perfect response to Stewart’s pretentious and misguided drivel.
After reading this interview, my eyes have rolled back in my head so far I can’t get them back down.
What is up with this gal? I used to like her, when I saw her in Twilight (don’t judge me!)
When I saw her other movies, I was like “wow…. she really is the same in every single role”. Ok then…. It didn’t stop me from liking her. But lately… jeeeeeez. And then I saw her Ice Bucket Challenge… what the heck was that?? Why does she act so…. jumpy? Is she on meth? Seriously?