- Stewart's success easier to stomach PARK CITY, Utah -- Her gut can thank Twilight. "I can only work on something," Kristen Stewart says, "if I feel like throwing up if I don't get to do it." Nothing like sudden stardom and a worldwide gross of $325 million to settle the stomach.
"It's made doing the stuff that I really care about much easier," she says of these past few post-Twilight months. "I wanted to do a couple projects for years, and now suddenly my entire year is booked."
First, though, Stewart will be seen in Adventureland, a buzzed-about, coming-of-age tale here at the Sundance indie film festival from director Greg Mottola (Superbad). Set in 1987, it's about a college graduate (Jesse Eisenberg) who falls in love with a troubled carnival worker (Stewart).
Although she shot it before Twilight sank its teeth into box-office coffers, Adventureland will unquestionably benefit from Stewart's new pop-culture cache when it opens in March. Like all of Stewart's future films, it takes place a world apart from the gloomily romantic realm of Stephenie Meyer's blood-guzzlers. That said, she insists she isn't picking roles to purposely distance herself from her Twilight heroine Bella Swan.
"It's not been a deliberate thing, like I want to stay away from Twilight as much as I can."
And it's doubtful she could if she tried. Even here at the hip apex of independent cinema, the 18-year-old Hollywood native has been mobbed by autograph- and snapshot-seeking fans. Besides which, she'll soon be returning to the franchise. The sequel New Moon begins shooting in March for a November release. Spending the Twilight equity she has acquired might actually keep her in the business longer.
"If I kept reading scripts I was dying to do and they kept saying, 'No, no, no,' then I wouldn't be able to do this anymore. There are actors who start out differently, then when they can't maintain what they're into anymore, they do whatever comes their way. I couldn't do that. I would look baffled in every frame I did. I'd just look confused and bored."
One high-profile project in the works is the Joan Jett biopic Runaways, named after the moniker of Jett's all-girl rock band. Stewart reports she already has met with Jett, whom she'll portray.
"It's weird. I don't know how you could say the coolest person you've ever met is also the least intimidating person you've ever met, but she is. She's a really cool person."
And Stewart is not going to let a small detail -- like the fact she can't sing -- keep her from belting it out.
"I can yell," Stewart says, smiling. "I can do what she does."
Soderbergh makes a porno
The Sundance sex hasn't simmered down yet.
Following Ashton Kutcher's gigolo comedy Spread and Humpday (sort of an all-male Zack and Miri Make a Porno) director Steven Soderbergh dropped in to unspool an unfinished cut of The Girlfriend Experience on Wednesday night. Shot for a scant $1.7 million, the indie casts real-life porn star Sasha Grey as a high-end Manhattan hooker. Any similarities to former New York governors living or dead are, it is believed, purely coincidental.
source [ winnipegsun.com ]
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