Saturday, January 23, 2010

E Online Interviews Kristen Stewart at Sundance about Welcome to the Riley's



E Online posted this:

Everyone is raving about your performance—how did you prepare for this particular, shall we say, slightly more risqué role?

"Umm, Jake [Scott, the director] had a lot to do with my preparation and understanding of the type of person I was playing, and his serious regard of sensitivity towards those people. I play a girl who has sort of been stripped of any choice and really stripped of any normal upbringing. Like she couldn't establish who she was because of things that have happened to her and she became a 'working girl,' if you want to call it that.

"So in preparing for the role I talked to a lot of people, actually like three people in New Orleans, that were strippers that were working in this bar that we ended up using in the movie...I don't really prepare for anything, it's just about like, keeping it in your mind the whole time. If it affects you...it's just about understanding it more, it's not about having to like physically—oh, but I did have to do pole dancing lessons! But you don't really see that in the movies."

Oh, so you've got some sexy skills now!

"Yeah yeah."

Do you get nervous when you have to shoot the more provocative scenes?

"I was freaking out! The thing is my character is so, like, she just doesn't care. Basically nothing belongs to her. She'll give it to you like it doesn't bother [her]. So I had to drop that. She literally walks around with an open sore. Literally! She's just constantly like, 'Ugh, I'm fine, whatever.'"

Now that you're getting back to work, please tell us you were able to enjoy your time off after all the New Moon press.

"Yeah, I'm actually bored for the first time in, like, ever. So, yeah, I really want to get back to work."

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