# Why does Kristin Stewart always look so uncomfortable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578 "2011-01-06T04:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/61 "2011-01-09T01:06:41Z")
A life like that is my idea of torture. All the limo rides and 1st-class plane rides in the world could not compensate. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/62 "2011-01-09T02:12:00Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > I contend that she IS indeed uncomfortable in her own skin which is what made her perfect for the part of Bella. Bella’s character ran the gamut of emotion from A to B and I suspect Kristen Stewart is exactly like that in real life. I suspect Kristen Stewart is not like that at all in real life, but you’re spot on about Bella. There’s not an actress in the universe who could make that mopey bitch seem any more animated. It’s how she’s written and as I said, must be played to stay true to the character. Any actress in the role would play her exactly the same way. Kristen Stewart at least makes her somewhat borderline sympathetic, although I would die with happiness if Dakota Fanning’s vampire character were to kill them all, including sparkly Edward and the ugly werewolf guy, because I’d much rather see a movie about _ **her** _ character. She’s been more interesting in her 2-3 minutes onscreen than all the rest of them put together in all 3 films. > [@Ruby](#): > > Of course I haven’t studied her career as fanboy/girl **Equipoise** has so I’m going to qualify my comments as my uneducated opinion only. What’s funny is that I’m not a fangirl, I’ve never much paid attention to her outside of her movies until this thread. I’ve followed her career, her movies, not her life. I wasn’t oblivious to what she had to deal with, but like Shooby, this thread started making me delve, and feeling very sorry for the crap she has to deal with. Raskolnikov is right though, it will die down as soon as the Twilight crap is over and done with. I said in my first post that I can’t wait wait until that happens, so she can get on with the rest of her career, which will be a great one. Having the Twilight films on her resume will be a minor embarrassment in a couple of decades. As far as her disappearing, she won’t go away to serious moviegoers, she’ll just be invisible again to the teenyboppers and casual movie-viewing public, since she’ll mainly appear in smaller and indie movies, just as she has been doing all along. It looks like she has 2 more Twilight movies to go, since they’re splitting up the 4th book into 2 movies, and then she can wash her hands of them and the paparazzi who it’s true, probably won’t be interested after she’s moved past Bella 2 years from now. Her next role is as Marylou in [On The Road](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337692/), based on the Jack Kerouac novel and Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It’s directed by the extremely talented Brazilian director [Walter Salles](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758574/), who directed the amazing film [Central Station](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140888/), which was nominated for two Oscars, including the Best Actress nominee Fernanda Montenegro. He also directed [The Motorcycle Diaries](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/), starring Gael Garcia Bernal, which was also nominated for 2 Oscars. Kristen was cast along with Viggo Mortensen, Steve Buscemi, Amy Adams, Terrence Howard, Alice Braga, Kirsten Dunst, Steve Buscemi, Sam Riley (so very good as Ian Curtis in Anton Corbijn’s [Control](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/)) as Sal Paradise, and Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, among others. I’m looking forward to it, but most people who both like and hate Kristen Stewart will never take notice of it. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/63 "2011-01-09T03:30:38Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Kristin Stewart movie, but lots of actors can be surprisingly tongue-tied when they don’t have a script to work from. Robert DeNiro is known for playing tough talking, full of confidence characters, but in interviews he is soft spoken and frequently tongue tied. Johnny Depp has played alot of wacky, fast talking characters, but in interviews he generally seems very subdued. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/64 "2011-01-09T15:39:31Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > She’s very intelligent, and she does grasp that basic fact very well, and does what she’s supposed to do, always. I don’t doubt that. I’ve never assumed that she didn’t know what she was getting into, and I’ve never said that she didn’t know what she was getting into. You’re the one who suggested that she couldn’t have predicted that taking the lead role in the film adaptation of the best selling novel of the year could lead to greater exposure than she was comfortable with. > [@](#): > > If she were a fame whore and clearly cultivated the camera and paparazzi, then people like you would accuse her of being an attention whore. Where have I ever said or implied that? > [@](#): > > It’s the fuckedupedness of the intrusion into her _personal life_ that she really can’t stand, and I can’t blame her. You know, I’m not a negative force in Kristen Stewart’s life. I don’t buy the entertainment/gossip mags that pay the paparazzi to pursue her - I don’t even buy the newspapers that I see her in (I read them at work). I don’t send her hate mail. I don’t (usually - I had to make an exception for this thread) seek out Kristen Stewart news or gossip on the web. I’m not her target audience and she’s not being marketed to me. In no way to do I feed the industry that makes her life a misery. I hold a negative opinion of her that is unlikely to ever come to her attention and I expressed it in this thread and that is the sum total of everything I’ve ever inflicted on her. It’s the Kristen Stewart fans that are responsible for the frenzy she lives in. Save your ire for them. > [@](#): > > You think she’s giving the finger to you? She was giving the finger(s) to paparazzi who wouldn’t leave her alone. They take pictures of her doing it, and now you think it’s directed at you personally. That’s just bizarre. Be honest. When you wrote that did you honestly believe I meant it literally, or were you just taking an opportunity for a cheap shot? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/65 "2011-01-09T16:16:54Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Not sure what they feed kids where you’re from, but Kirsten Stewart doesn’t look like most boys I’ve seen. I only meant her face, and only in the typical Hollywood sense. It seems to me like most “beautiful women” have much more girlish, softer faces. Hers strikes me as harsh, more like a pretty boy’s. It’s actually what, to me, makes her more attractive than the typical “beautiful actress.” ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/66 "2011-01-09T17:46:36Z")
> [@Raskolnikov](#): > > It is part and parcel to her career. If she didn’t like the noteriety that came with Twilight she could’ve said no after the first film. She’s compensated pretty well and is making money, and will for decades, off the very thing she claims to hate. Without the noteriety she doesn’t get as many offers and magazine covers etc. To a certain extent they need the hype, they need to be in short-attention-span the public eye so they’re not forgotten. There’s always somebody younger coming along. It comes with the territory. Just noting that she and Robert Pattinson were locked in via contracts for the whole thing. Yes, they could have broken their contracts, but I’m pretty sure that’s a good way to get blacklisted in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578/67 "2011-01-10T04:01:51Z")
Wow. It’s like a opened a thread advocating kicking puppies. I had no idea there was such Kristin Stewart love on the SDMB. My original question was “Why does Kristin Stewart always look so uncomfortable?” I followed up with “Does she suffer from some sort of phobia or other disorder?” The answers to those questions would seem to be, “She doesn’t like publicity routines” and “No, no disorder, just a shy young woman in the spotlight.” Fair enough. Miss Stewart certainly does not need to live up to my expectations at all. I wish her nothing but success in her future endeavors. If I see her my TV in the future and she looks like she wants to vanish in a puff of smoke, I will better understand her predicament. Thank you all for the lively discussion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-kristin-stewart-always-look-so-uncomfortable/566578.md?page=3)