Kristen Stewart talks about fans, vampires and high school.
She totally missed the Twilight frenzy.
“I stick to used bookstores. I didn’t know about them. And even when I found out about them, I made sure that I kept tunnel vision … There was no reason to get specific details or I’d be playing everyone else’s Bella.”
Now the fans write about her online.
“[I’ve read that] I walk funny. I think that’s hilarious: ‘She walks funny, she’s just not right.’ I’ve read that I’m hated … It’s so weird to think people put so much energy into despising you so wholeheartedly.”
And it’s not just online haters …
“We had to do a signing in Rome, and there were so many fans. A couple of them, peppered in there, would come by with this look of disdain, just hatred …They have one second to put that piece of paper in front of you or their book and say ‘Just sign it, OK? Don’t write anything else besides your name.’”
She gets the vampire obsession.
“Everyone is attracted to things they don’t know. They’re dangerous and at the same time alluring -- and for girls especially they’re like a test, like you’re testing yourself: ‘I can touch the fire, and I’ll be fine.’”
Kristen and Bella are one and the same.
“Bella was very, very close to myself. There weren’t any distinguishing characteristics that were different.”
And she relates to being young and in love.
“I first started having crushes at 5. So it starts young, that’s a really innate thing about human beings. And heightened emotion goes on when you’re this age, maybe because you trust yourself more, and that’s really why I love Bella. She really trusts herself. She’s really strong. And you haven’t become cynical about what you feel because you haven’t been hurt yet. Then again, an 80-year-old woman can fall head over heels in love with somebody.”
Just don’t crowd her!
“I had to stop going to school because I worked too much and my teachers resented me a lot. But I really love home school -- independent study is for me. Kids typically make me really uncomfortable -- put me in a room with 150 extras. and I’m uncomfortable.”
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