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Kristen Stewart Appreciation Thread

The Huffington Post said:
Foulmouthed and feral, the kohl-eyed stripper-prostitute portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Welcome to the Rileys is a battery of neurotic tics: she nibbles her fingers, scratches her undefined lips, and shakes one foot mechanically. There are bruises on her calves from pole-dancing. Her hair is unkempt, her skin waxy. In her willful self-neglect, she is pitiful.

This 17-year-old apparition could, in a different life, be Bella Swan’s sister — the promiscuous one who acted out and vanished, leaving Bella uncertain, unsmiling, and ill-equipped to deal with rejection. There’s no such sister, of course, in the Twilight movies to rationalize Bella’s depressiveness, alienation and her attraction to the undead and the vulpine — though part of it stems from her parents’ split. But Stewart makes Mallory, the girl in Rileys, so defensive and evasive, so willing to offer a lap-dance or oral sex in lieu of explanations, that we know she has a history fraught with traumas, desertions, and betrayals.

“We find her on the cusp of giving up, of becoming one of those girls that you see in those clubs who are dead inside,” said Stewart, 20, in a recent interview. “They really have nothing behind their eyes when they look at you, you’re not equals anymore because they’ve lost something — they don’t feel wholly about themselves. She’s been abused and made to think that she’s a lesser person, and she truly hates herself. She doesn’t have the capacity to trust other people, or feel worthy of love. But hopefully in this movie, if it’s the movie that I wanted to do, I think you can see that she’s starting to envy people that are more whole, that like themselves. I’m not saying that she makes a full recovery, but what happens to her in the story does spark a question.”

Stewart and I had 20 minutes together in a Manhattan hotel room that had been stripped of everything except three chairs. “Spare,” she observed. She wore a black and white check shirt and jeans. There was no small talk, just an interview. She was serious, impersonal, passionate when she got going on the subject of her work, the words tumbling out in a rush: I liked the sense that acting mystifies her. And then she was gone, leaving her sunglasses on the floor. Instead of signing onto eBay, I gingerly returned them to the aide, or agent, standing outside. That was that.

Following Stewart’s stealthy, brooding Joan Jett in The Runaways, her performance in Rileys further complicates the actress’s image, which has been founded on passivity and a certain wryness. Not that Bella is archetypal. In making her moodier and less knowing than most high-school movie heroines, and bequeathing her her own shyness, Stewart has maintained the character’s elusiveness; no mean feat to pull off over the course of three tentpoles (it’ll be five by November 2012).

Mallory, in contrast, is an imploding force of nature. In her fishnet holdups and gloves, she is less the hardboiled hooker she imagines herself to be than a lamb in vixen’s clothing, a child playing brutalizing adult games. Strung-out and slummocky, Mallory is more convincing that the movie itself, for along comes a well-to-do plumber (James Gandolfini), grieving for his dead teenage daughter, to attempt her rescue. He rejects her crude sexual advances, cleans her apartment, and fines her for saying “fuck.” And then along comes his wife (Melissa Leo), surmounting her agoraphobia to chase him to New Orleans, to complete the makeshift Riley family.

As both fairytale and three-way psychological case study, Jake Scott’s film is overly schematic, but it’s not without reality checks: as when Mallory flees into the night yelling back at her surrogate parents, “I’m nobody’s little girl — it’s too late for that shit!” As damaged as Mallory is, Stewart gives her the bitter integrity of someone who, having made her squalid bed, is going to lie in it. And she has her principles: “I don’t do anal, German Shepherds, or porno tapes,” she tells Gandolfini’s Doug, who’s more intent on unblocking her toilet. It’s unsettling to hear Stewart say these words, and it was unsettling for her to play the part.

“I was very scared of it, actually,” she said. “Both well before I did it, when I was too young to play her, and then all through rehearsal. But once we started shooting, I shocked myself in that I was unselfconscious about not wearing too many clothes or saying the words that were coming out of my mouth. I was finally ready and, I don’t know, mature enough that it didn’t bother me.”

Mallory’s liaisons with her johns, one of whom leaves her with a busted lip, take place off screen, but they troubled Stewart nonetheless. “I know that we never have to see that, but that doesn’t matter because at a certain point it becomes technical — you have to play it as if it happened, so there’s really no difference. If it’s all inside, if you don’t have to show her being worked over by some guy, it’s not less difficult to play. One thing I couldn’t get out of my head — and this is overtly sexual and explicit — was that she was constantly open and, like, raw. It’s awful, and it never goes away. You walk around with that always.”
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^Nice. Are you going to be able to see it?

It is playing in Portland but that is 5 hours away and though, while I've been daydreaming of visiting a friend there- I can't afford it............Why, why , why won't it come here?!!:)

Here is a repost from the first page b/c it was one of my favorite photo shoots:


 
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so...they're filming breaking dawn in Baton Rouge until spring of 2011, right?

like, omg, sisters and i are taking a day trip to Baton Rouge, i called my filmster friend in NOLA and asked if he knew anything...he answered very carefully and avoided giving me straight answers (kind of like when i found out he was filming the real world lol) BUT WE GOING, AND WE GONNA LIKE, STARE WITH BINOCULARS AND BE CREEPY. actually, not staring and being creepy, but sitting and smokin' joints and hoping one of them comes by so we can get their autographs. filmster friend said there was a chance they "might stop by" voodoo fest, weeeeeee!

my little sisters have turned me into a 13 year old again i swear.

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ocean --

i think it comes out 11/5? if so, i'll be back in atlanta, and lystra said she wanted to see it, so perhaps i go see it at home with the bluelight house :)
 
WTTR playing in these cities.

Yes! Go be a stalker! :D hahahahaha I saw the place they were filming there- you have all that info right?
It wouldn't surprise me if they went to Voodoo Fest- You should look up what shows are playing in New Orleans on weekends- She said they might spend weekends in NO-
I'll do some online stalking for you.....if I see anything I will let you know.
And I know what you mean, my best friend totally makes fun of me saying I'm like a high school girl with a crush but I just don't care:)
I was pissed that everyone I know has arrests and can't cross the border b/c they'll be an hour away from me when they move the shooting to B.C. and I could have gone to sneak a peek.

Edit: ^That sounds really bad. I don't know many people and they have DUI's. :)
I've lived like 10 mins from the border for YEARS and never crossed it. Poor me. I want to see ALL of Canada.
 
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wtf? not playing in atlanta? i call fucking shenanigans!

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fuck Scottsdale, whats even in fucking scottsdale? obviously they should erase scottsdale and make it Atlanta and Seattle, duh
 
yeah that cant be the only places where its playing haha i dunno what its like around the rest of the country but in jersey we have a movie theater in almost every town lol. wish i could see it tommorow night but i got work :\
 
in the picture kenicke posted at the top on 10/27, it looks like Stewart needs to floss. She has some gross black stuff in her teeth. You would think celebrites have people that stay on top of that for them. It's pretty disgusting.
 
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in the picture kenicke posted at the top on 10/27, it looks like Stewart needs to floss. She has some gross black stuff in her teeth. You would think celebrites have people that stay on top of that for them. It's pretty disgusting.
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go back to the football threads and talk shit about something else, bro. :p
 
kstew defenders for lyfe <3

if smotpoker really wants to go toe to toe in the middle of a cell, i'll throw that glove and let kstew do all the dirty work for me ;)

na mean girl?

like

WHAT

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