If that’s what’s got you all torqued up, why don’t you just complain about that, instead of complaining about how her face looks at award shows?
But she does do the accompanying hard work. She always has, and she always will. She appears at junkets, she appears at premieres, she appears on TV interviews, she appears at scheduled press interviews, she does photo and publicity shoots, she does it all. ALL OF IT to promote the movie. She’s always shown 100% professionalism in every aspect regarding her work. Show me once, just once, where she refused to appear at a publicity event.
She’s very intelligent, and she does grasp that basic fact very well, and does what she’s supposed to do, always.
Then of course, people like you complain that “it seems like I can’t open the newspaper without her sulky face staring back at me” so she’s damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t.
It’s the fuckedupedness of the intrusion into her personal life that she really can’t stand, and I can’t blame her.
These videos show what she has to deal with now every single day of her life, every single time she leaves her house:
Paparazzi 1
Paparazzi 2
Paparazzi 3 (good music on this one)
Paparazzi 4 (terrible music on this one)
Paparazzi 5
Paparazzi 6
Paparazzi 7
I could go on but I had to stop. They’re disgusting, and I know there’s much worse out there but I don’t want to go looking.
She wasn’t talking about publicity events, she was also talking about paparazzi intruding on her personal life, but in any case, she did apologize.
Here’s the original context (with a bit more of what she said than the original link):
Ok, I’ll admit so sometimes she can’t handle it, and does or says something stupid. None of us can imagine what that’s like for an introvert. Even if she was partially talking about publicity events, look at this video from behind her, and that’s what she deals with on the red carpet, but she does it, for the movie. 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. Again, she’s damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t.
Here’s her apology:
Since in all the years I’ve been following her career that’s the only time she’s really fucked up, I’m willing to forgive her. She’s done public service announcements for RAINN, and though I haven’t seen the movie, that link points out that she played a rape victim in the film Speak, so it’s not like she’s oblivious. I’m kinda glad my fuckups have never been broadcast to the world and my every move tracked by paparazzi and people wanting to jump on me for anything stupid that comes out of my mouth.
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.
Btw, here’s a picture for you and the OP from the original link I used above. Kristen perky!!
I see another reason why she doesn’t do that very often. She looks like one of those people who look better in pictures when she doesn’t smile.
Also, does anyone else think she looks more like a boy? Or is it that I can’t get past her appearance as a kid?
ok, maybe she’s gay. A closeted lesbian who hasn’t come out yet. She’s definitely a tom-boy, and watching her in that PCA clip made me feel bad for her trying to walk around in those high heels.
hmm. Perhaps I’m onto something.
Not sure what they feed kids where you’re from, but Kirsten Stewart doesn’t look like most boys I’ve seen.
Frankly, this thread has made me like Kristin Stewart far more than I would have thought. I followed some of the YouTube links to her interviews, and she comes across as so earnest and trying to be genuine, even when the interviewer doesn’t really try to understand or draw out the point she’s fumbling to make. I thought Bella of Twilight was one of the lamest main characters ever, but Kristin seems like a professional who loves her actual job while hating a lot of its trappings. That she’s so uncomfortable with the spotlight makes her far more relatable to me. I’d offer to buy her a beer if she ever passed this way, but of course she would hate that.
she looks JUST like sigourney weaver in the first half of ghostbusters.
I’m sure she is a very nice girl but she has what I would consider a bitchy face. Her mouth looks like a frown even when she is not frowning (Alicia Silverstone has the same issue) and her nose is upturned and it makes her look like she is walking around snootily with her nose in the air.
I thought she was a boy until about half-way through Panic Room. I remember being surprised when it turned out the character was called Sarah! I haven’t seen any of her other films, but I don’t think she looks like a boy any more.
One thing I’ve noticed is that in every picture I see of Kristen Stewart, she always has the same vacant expression: eyes half-closed, jaw hanging open. Is this a pose that she uses for photos (is it supposed to be some sort of seductive look?) or does she always look that gormless?
I think she’s beautiful. I also think she’s on some type of drug.
that’s hardly disgusting. nobody impeded her progress or touched her, they simply took some photos and asked some stupid questions but seriously, she’ll be getting residuals from Twilight until she’s 72 so I don’t think it’s too bad a tradeoff.
seriously, she can go buy herself alot of privacy if she wants to get away. johnny depp has his own island in the Carribean and lives half his time in France and schools his children there. These people lead lives we can only dream of.
she was hounded on the red carpet in london? I’m sure she flew first class, stayed in a 4 star hotel and was limo driven wherever she needed to be so I just don’t get the pity. It 's part of her job.
I certainly don’t agree with most of the bashers here but I feel you’re going too far in the other direction.
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.
You’re looking at a ten second clip. Imagine having to do that for the full time you are ever outside the privacy of your home, from the moment you step outside to the moment you get back inside. Every day. Year in, year out. And of course not all Paparazzi are that civil.
Also realize that different people’s tolerances are different for different things. I can pay someone a million dollars and they’ll go stand on the edge of a cliff. If they don’t have a fear of heights, they’ll not care a bit about going out and standing on the ledge. If they have a massive fear of heights, the money might make them give it a good go, but you certainly can’t expect them to be joyful about it. You can say all you like that for that sort of money they should be happy, but irrational fears don’t exactly work like that. Yes, rationally, Kristen Stewart should be happy about the money she’s making and be happy for all the attention. But rationality doesn’t have anything to do with our phobias.
Chinese water torture. Some celebrities can withstand it, though.
The Paparazzi don’t pay as much attention to most celebrities. Kristen has the disadvantage that the role she played earns her the notice of millions of rabid fangirls and that those girls are the exact same clientelle as purchase teen gossip magazines.
No one gives a crap what Vigo Mortensen is doing from day to day.
longer than 10 seconds and all the videos were the same, so perhaps that’s more the norm than what you describe.
and it’s not everywhere she goes, there are plenty of stars that manage to live in LA and go out to restuarants etc. and guess what? they aren’t seen b/c many of these places have back door enterances for their guests. it is possible to get around some of it.
and many live outside of the LA area or in NYC where people are more relaxed. Some live in new england or whatever to get away. It doesn’t have to be 24/7, just because some famewhor#$ like the Kardashians and Paris Hilton encourage the paps doesn’t mean they all live like that or have to. How many stars are in LA and are never seen? It is possible.
look, I’m not trying to bash her, I think she’s a good actress, but I just feel some points in this thread went too far the other way. I do think it’s rediculous, someone is walking down the street, lets take 234 photos of them!, seriously, it is really strange, they are in the end people just like you and me.
but I also feel that there are ways to mitigate alot of the crazyness b/c many stars have done it for years.
Do you really believe that this is an accurate description of Kristin Stewart’s life?
you are correct , but I’d counter with the fact that she won’t have all this attention forever. It will die down, she’ll move on to other films, maybe if some of them are flops she’ll be more out of the public eye (she’ll never be fully be out of course) and this may be the zenith of her popularity.
maybe she’ll choose to do a few small, independent films and will “disappear” for awhile and things will calm down.
I just think it’s something she’ll have to weather but I can only assume it will get better. Think Ricky Martin, Garth brooks, Nelson, boy bands, Macauly Caulken etc.
It’s fairly possible. I’ve seen interviews with actresses saying just that.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/sienna-miller-part-1 (Somewhere near the last third of the clip)
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.
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.