Interviews with Kristen at Sundance

Esta vez escritas, no en vídeo. Es una gozada tener la oportunidad de escuchar/leer lo que piensa, tiene la cabeza muy bien puesta.

En ésta, con Canwest News, el bombazo ha sido lo que JJ le decía durante el rodaje: "Pussy to the wood, fuck your guitar!" pero es muy interesante leer lo que dice de los roles masculino/femenino, su visión de los personajes reales y cómo no se para a pensar en el fandom antes de elegir un papel.

PARK CITY, Utah — Kristen Stewart stops herself before she articulates the exact words spoken to her by Joan Jett when she strapped on the electric guitar to play the ‘70s-era rock chick.

One might say the Twilight star even looks trepidatious, despite the tight black pants and mug shot hoodie that lend her an air of bulletproof toughness. And no wonder, when the words finally come out, they’re evocative — not to mention a tad obscene.

“Put your p—- to the wood! F— your guitar!” says Stewart, citing Jett.

The words might sound a little harsh, but for Stewart, having Jett share her rock ‘n’ roll wisdom on the set of The Runaways was manna from heaven.

The debut narrative feature from the veteran Canadian music video director Floria Sigismondi, The Runaways tells the story of what history books now call the first all-girl rock band.

Formed by Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the sweaty cradle of the Los Angeles club scene under the tutelage of freak-show rock promoter Kim Fowley, The Runaways earned fame for their single Cherry Bomb, then essentially imploded under the now-cliche pressures of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle: booze, drugs, sex and the dissolution of personal relationships.

The movie, which had its world premiere here at the Sundance Film Festival Sunday night, takes the viewer on the frenetic voyage shared by Currie and Jett, two women who accidentally rewrote the book on “c— rock” and, according to Jett herself, endured the ridicule of iconic Canadian band Rush when they shared the same bill.

Stewart plays Jett in the new movie while Dakota Fanning takes on the role of redesigned sex symbol Cherie Currie. Both young actors say they were familiar with Jett before they signed on for the project, but the Runaways story was somewhat new and entirely revelatory.

“People don’t realize The Runaways were the first girls playing music like that. And really, it could have been anybody, but it was them (and finding out why) made it an interesting movie,” says Stewart.

“Both (of these women have) a dominant sexuality. They had to fight,” says Stewart. “People like girls to be sexy and they did then, too, but in a different way. They didn’t want to get f—ed (by the girl), they wanted to f— them.”

Stewart, who has a habit of casting her eyes into her lap with the same awkward energy of a wallflower asking the prom queen for a date, says taking on Jett’s persona for several weeks reframed the way she approached her own generation’s view of sex and sexuality.

On one hand, she recognizes what Jett and Currie accomplished in terms of breaking down gender walls by strapping on Stratocasters, but on the other, she also sees how today’s generation of young women may have overcompensated for the blurring of masculine-feminine energy by going too far to one side.

“Generally, those girls in tall boots and short skirts might have overcompensated, like, ‘I can do what the guys do.’ I don’t want to say that girls aren’t cut out for that, and it’s not like I have fully developed thoughts on this s— either, but like it’s weird — I feel — (because) we’re never (typically) the aggressor, that girls do what guys do now, and maybe it’s not healthy. You know what I mean?”

It’s a hard area for anyone to navigate, especially for a young woman with as many different demographic mandates and contractual obligations as the star of the Twilight franchise.

But Stewart doesn’t back down. She almost seems to relish the chance to shed some Bella Swan skin here at Sundance by reasserting her identity as a serious actor first, teen sensation a distant second.

“I have a fan base that ... loves Bella, and I do too, but I’m not her,” she says. “I don’t think people can expect me, for the rest of my entire career, to please an audience that once liked Twilight, you know what I mean. I just think that’s crazy. It’s really always an afterthought. I’ll decide to do a movie and then go, oh, Twilight fans are probably going to react to this or whatever, but it’s an afterthought. I don’t plan things out based on how I think other people are going to receive them. I do it for the experience.”

Gracias Twilightish

Y ésta, con HitFix, también muuuuy buena, en la que profundiza más en la importancia para ella de interpretar a Joan Jett y éste papel frente al de Bella y habla un poco de Eclipse.

When it comes down to playing a beloved real life character versus a beloved fictional one, Kristen Stewart declares herself Team Joan over Team Bella. Stewart, who plays Joan Jett in the new biopic “The Runaways,” says she felt a tremendous personal responsibility to capture Jett’s essence.

“Bella’s effect on the world wasn’t necessarily as great as Joan’s, obviously, and I never got to meet Bella,” Stewart said. “It’s completely different. All these people who have an investments in these women, that’s awesome…but when it becomes personal and it’s my responsibility to not destroy, like, what people are going to take from the most important part of my friend’s life… Joan has become really, a really big part. She’s awesome and I really love her. If we hadn’t told the story right, people don’t know the Runaways in our generation. Because they’re going to see them through us, it’s a much different experience than making an original fictional story.”

Speaking of Bella, even though she hasn’t seen “Eclipse,” the third installment of “Twilight” yet, Stewart gives high marks to director David Slade’s style on the film, which will come out this summer. “He’s a very technical director. Very. Very. He’s very thoughtful. I think it’s going to be cool for ‘Twilight,’ like, shotwise. He’s very conceptual. He really, really takes a lot of time to…you’re not going to see, like, a bunch of Steadicam. It’s very deliberate, which is very cool. It gives you more time to think about what you’re doing. I don’t know [the tone] because I haven’t seen the movie.”

On “The Runaways,” Stewart felt an instant connection to Jett, in part because they both experienced stardom from an early age. “We have been professional [from] a young age, which is hard, but her [in] such a different way,” said Stewart during a press roundtable at Sundance for “The Runaways.” “Like the biggest adversity I face is bloggers and [Jett] had people throwing bottles in her face and saying, like, ‘Sit down, you ugly loudmouth.’ To see how assured she is now and that she wasn’t always like that and it actually took a lot… And what she has now is a really, really, really thick armor and you see that happen in the movie. That’s what I wanted to do…She’s a survivor and at the same time she demands to live her life the way she’d like to. She’s a very smart inspiring person.”

Stewart played guitar before filming started, but wasn’t prepared for the rigors of playing in the movie. “We all had two weeks that we had band practice where all of the girls came in. They played the songs that we recorded, I think there was five or six that we had to have done. They played them over a speaker, but then we were like trying to play as a band to it. It’s exhausting, especially with the guitar. I would be exhausted at the end of a rehearsal.. I’d be like, ‘Oh my shoulder is killing me.” So it’s no surprise that even though she sings very capably in the film, Stewart said she had no plans to record her own album.

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