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Kristen, Dakota Fanning, Joan Jett and more were yesterday (January 24) on ‘The Runaways’ premiere at Sundance in Park City, Utah. I have added over 100 photo to our gallery.
By the way, there are a lot of new photos but I can’t add them. I have some problems with gallery, but I’ll try to mend it soon. Be patient, please.
There are two videos. In the first Kristen and Dakota are talking about ‘The Runaways’ and Joan Jett. And in the second Joan Jett is talking about Kristen. More videos in Read More.
When it comes down to playing a beloved real life character versus a beloved fictional one, Kristen Stewart declares herself Team Joan over Team Bella. Stewart, who plays Joan Jett in the new biopic “The Runaways,” says she felt a tremendous personal responsibility to capture Jett’s essence.
“Bella’s effect on the world wasn’t necessarily as great as Joan’s, obviously, and I never got to meet Bella,” Stewart said. “It’s completely different. All these people who have an investments in these women, that’s awesome…but when it becomes personal and it’s my responsibility to not destroy, like, what people are going to take from the most important part of my friend’s life… Joan has become really, a really big part. She’s awesome and I really love her. If we hadn’t told the story right, people don’t know the Runaways in our generation. Because they’re going to see them through us, it’s a much different experience than making an original fictional story.”
Speaking of Bella, even though she hasn’t seen “Eclipse,” the third installment of “Twilight” yet, Stewart gives high marks to director David Slade’s style on the film, which will come out this summer. “He’s a very technical director. Very. Very. He’s very thoughtful. I think it’s going to be cool for ‘Twilight,’ like, shotwise. He’s very conceptual. He really, really takes a lot of time to…you’re not going to see, like, a bunch of Steadicam. It’s very deliberate, which is very cool. It gives you more time to think about what you’re doing. I don’t know [the tone] because I haven’t seen the movie.”
On “The Runaways,” Stewart felt an instant connection to Jett, in part because they both experienced stardom from an early age. “We have been professional [from] a young age, which is hard, but her [in] such a different way,” said Stewart during a press roundtable at Sundance for “The Runaways.” “Like the biggest adversity I face is bloggers and [Jett] had people throwing bottles in her face and saying, like, ‘Sit down, you ugly loudmouth.’ To see how assured she is now and that she wasn’t always like that and it actually took a lot… And what she has now is a really, really, really thick armor and you see that happen in the movie. That’s what I wanted to do… She’s a survivor and at the same time she demands to live her life the way she’d like to. She’s a very smart inspiring person.”
Stewart played guitar before filming started, but wasn’t prepared for the rigors of playing in the movie. “We all had two weeks that we had band practice where all of the girls came in. They played the songs that we recorded, I think there was five or six that we had to have done. They played them over a speaker, but then we were like trying to play as a band to it. It’s exhausting, especially with the guitar. I would be exhausted at the end of a rehearsal.. I’d be like, ‘Oh my shoulder is killing me.” So it’s no surprise that even though she sings very capably in the film, Stewart said she had no plans to record her own album.
Ted Casablanca made interview with Kristen and here is the result.
Everyone is raving about your performance—how did you prepare for this particular, shall we say, slightly more risqué role?
“Umm, Jake [Scott, the director] had a lot to do with my preparation and understanding of the type of person I was playing, and his serious regard of sensitivity towards those people. I play a girl who has sort of been stripped of any choice and really stripped of any normal upbringing. Like she couldn’t establish who she was because of things that have happened to her and she became a ‘working girl,’ if you want to call it that.”
“So in preparing for the role I talked to a lot of people, actually like three people in New Orleans, that were strippers that were working in this bar that we ended up using in the movie…I don’t really prepare for anything, it’s just about like, keeping it in your mind the whole time. If it affects you…it’s just about understanding it more, it’s not about having to like physically—oh, but I did have to do pole dancing lessons! But you don’t really see that in the movies.”
Oh, so you’ve got some sexy skills now!
“Yeah yeah.”
Do you get nervous when you have to shoot the more provocative scenes?
“I was freaking out! The thing is my character is so, like, she just doesn’t care. Basically nothing belongs to her. She’ll give it to you like it doesn’t bother [her]. So I had to drop that. She literally walks around with an open sore. Literally! She’s just constantly like, ‘Ugh, I’m fine, whatever.’”
Now that you’re getting back to work, please tell us you were able to enjoy your time off after all the New Moon press.
“Yeah, I’m actually bored for the first time in, like, ever. So, yeah, I really want to get back to work.”
‘Welcome to the Rileys’ had Sundance premiere yesterday. Of course, Kristen Stewart was there. Also she was seen as she was arriving for Sundance. She wore Denim of Virtue jeans, her favourite sweatshirt EC Star, The Jacksonville Zoo t-shirt with panther, Juicy Couture coat and Converse trainers. I think she looks beautiful.
Arriving for Sundance in Park City
‘Welcome to the Rileys’ Sundance Premiere in Park City
Kristen was interviewed by MTV, so here is the video. In Read More you find videos of Kristen’s arriving and Twitter messagies about her.
Yesterday (January 23), Kristen was talking about her movie ‘Welcome to the Rileys’ for Variety Studio at Sundance in Park City, Utah. Below there you can read what Kristen and the director of the movie Jake Scott said about ‘Welcome to the Rileys’.
In the much buzzed about indie flick, she plays a 16-year-old stripper who is taken in by a married man, played by James Gandolfini…
“I did some pole dancing,” Stewart told me Saturday at the movie’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked.”
Oddly enough, she kinda enjoyed it. “The more I saw it, the more I wanted it,” Stewart said. “It was like a weird self-hating kind of thing.”
Yikes!
Director Jake Scott said it was pretty much a closed set when Stewart had to do her dancing scenes.
“She was terrified,” Scott said. “The strip club we shot in was really a club, and it really was that dirty and really that tough. But she killed it.”
Scott also hooked Stewart up with a professional stripper. “She’s like one of the best in the business,” he said. “So she was really reliable and didn’t do drugs or anything like that, but she was able to introduce Kristen to girls that were. She was able to put her in that world.”
But if you’re expecting Showgirls moves from Stewart, you can forget about it. “This is not about a stripper,” Scott said. “It’s about a damaged child.”
Stewart said, “The cool thing about my character is she is not sultry and she is not sexy.”
Kristen, Dakota Fanning and the director of ‘The Runaways’ Floria Sigismondi made portraits for ‘The Runaways’. The first set of portraits is by Jeff Vespa and the second one is by Matt Carra.
Kristen Stewart was seen by paparazzi yesterday (January 22, 2010). She was arriving at the airport in Park City, Utah for Sundance where ‘The Runaways’ will have a premiere. Kristen wore jeans, shirt, her favourite sweatshirt, sunglasses, Adidas shoes and she was smoking. However, she looks very nice. Also we can see teaser poster for ‘The Runaways’. As you can see it’s amazing. I think so. ‘The Runaways’ has own facebook page. So don’t wait and become a fan right now right here.
