How Kristen Stewart Went From Object of Mockery to Best Actress Nominee
SlatePablo Larraín’s unsettling biopic Spencer takes us inside the head of an emotionally fragile young woman ill at ease with her enormous fame, imprisoned by her own beauty, and haunted by her inability to find privacy or a sense of freedom in the cage of celebrity that surrounds her. The New York Times credited the movie’s success to her performance, noting that her role was “not an easy acting feat, since because of the nature of the story she has a limited number of lines.” Stewart has always excelled at playing characters who either speak little or who, when they speak, say something other than what they mean. One critic wrote that the movie boasted “truly magnificent performances—minus Stewart, of course.” Another scoffed that she “scarcely seems to have more on her mind than who might take her to the senior prom.” At that year’s Razzies, she was “awarded” the prize for Worst Actress for both Snow White and the Huntsman and the final Twilight installment, Breaking Dawn: Part 2. In a very public coming-out moment while hosting Saturday Night Live in early 2017, she responded to Donald Trump’s long-ago mean tweets about her cheating scandal with a cheeky, “If you didn’t like me then, you’re definitely not going to like me now, ’cause I’m hosting SNL and I’m like, so gay, dude.” After dating high-profile women like the singer St. Vincent and the model Stella Maxwell, Stewart has spent the past two years with the screenwriter, producer, and actress Dylan Meyer, whom she recently announced she plans to marry. When she discusses her approach to acting or her relationship to her past roles, she is remarkably perceptive about the invisible but exacting craft involved in “doing something as absurd as pretending to be someone else.” After the Snow White fiasco, Stewart turned her back on blockbusters to take on serious roles in artistically ambitious movies: the two films with Assayas, the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice opposite Julianne Moore, the Kelly Reichardt anthology film Certain Women.
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