Okay, I’m remembering this from watching the movie at the time. I don’t have a cite, just my recollection of how it went down.
The director, David Fincher, is quoted on Wikipedia about the character’s personality. Nothing about her being a girl who has disguised as a boy and nothing about Jodie Foster’s character being paranoid.
Except her roles in both American Pie and Buffy were as hot sexy nerd. And, aside from American Pie 4, the only role she’s played in the last six years is her character on How I Met Your Mother, who is also a hot sex nerd.
Those are funny, but they use pictures of Emma Watson dressed up as Hermione Granger for the geeky pictures. Emma Watson herself did not have that hairstyle. I saw her on The Tonight Show. She was a normal, cute girl with no awkwardness (other than commenting on how Jay pronounced “Watson”).
Justin_Bailey, the paranoid aspect is evident because the mother picks the home because it has a Panic Room. He may not have stated that characterization in the material cited by Wikipedia, but it is my perception of watching the movie. The plot involves a paranoid mother and her daughter who move into the apartment that has a panic room because the mother is afraid of being attacked. And wouldn’t you know it, someone does attack. But what they want is in the Panic Room. And the whole point of the plot is that the mother overcomes her fears because she goes through this experience.
Similarly, that description says the character is purposefully androgenous. I may be projecting on the intent of the androgeny, but that cite verifies that it was deliberate that the character is made up androgenously. So my original point is valid - you cannot use that film as a cite that Kristen Stewart looked like a boy, because they specifically made her up in that movie to look more boyish.
Or are you going to try to argue that Hayden Panettierre also looked like a boy? You know, the cheerleader from “Heroes”.
Also, did you read the whole Wikipedia quote? Kristen Stewart’s boyish character was created as a contrast to the person who originally played her mother, Nicole Kidman. After Jodie Foster signs on, they made mother and daughter the same. It’s all right there in the article you’re using to tell me I’m wrong.
Finally, “real life” pictures of a teenage Kristen Stewart (at premieres and such) are just a Google away. Her appearance in the movie is just what she looked like.
I don’t know what quote you’re trying to show me. My perception may be wrong - it was 10 years ago, and just a movie I watched in passing, not something I live my life by.
The article specifically says that Meg (i.e. the mother) was rewritten to be like Sarah (the daughter). They did not change the characterization of the daughter.
What does it take to make a 10 year old girl and a 10 year old boy look alike? Hairstyle, clothing. Maybe subtle things with makeup, but nothing dramatic.