Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Kristen Stewart was a “pretentious little loser” while filming Twilight.
The 36-year-old star – who was just 17 years old when she shot the first movie in the series – looked back at playing Bella Swan and joked about how seriously she and co-star Robert Pattinson took the project.
Appearing on the In Your Dreams With Owen Thiele podcast, she said: “The first one, we were talking about this earlier ‘cause someone else asked about it, but I was like such a pretentious little loser.”
“It was so so serious. Me and Rob were like, ‘Yeah, this is like f****** epic, like, let’s try and, like, elevate this s***,.’ And it’s like, just be exactly what age you are, and like say the words.”
Kristen noted she and Robert, 40, had a very “teenage” attitude at the time.
She laughed: “It was always like, ‘Oh my God, embarrassing. God, I just wanted to be like f****** real and it’s, like, impossible. Everyone’s like making it f****** impossible for it to be like f****** real.
“And then you look at it, and you’re like, it was f****** real.
“Anything too much is so perfect for that period of time, where you’re not going to do subtle stuff when you’re, like, a teenager dying.”
Kristen – who dated Robert for four years after meeting him on the set of the first film in 2008 – admitted it took some time after the films ended to appreciate them for what they were.
She said: “It’s really funny ‘cause it was like we did five of those movies, and it took five years—and then we’ve never stopped talking about it.
“During the time in which they were coming out, we were always being asked to look at it from the outside—which was not possible to do yet.”
Her comments about the serious nature of the performances echo similar marks made by Robert in April.
He told Vogue earlier this year: “I really love that movie. I think I would have done it exactly the same — to be honest, I don’t even think I’d be able to do the performance now.
“Everybody was approaching it so earnestly and took it really, really, really seriously.
“There was no kind of tongue-in-cheek element. No one’s winking at the audience. It’s like it’s very real, which is strange for a movie about a vampire romance.”
