Kristen Stewart blows critics away as Princess Diana. She’s ready to talk about it
LA Times“I’m a total L.A. scumbag,” Kristen Stewart says, bending her wrist to show me an expertly inked Los Angeles Dodgers logo. It’s the last day of the Telluride Film Festival and we’re heading home on the same charter flight, but not before talking about “Spencer,” the Pablo Larraín-directed drama in which she plays Princess Diana at the moment she’s looking to break free from her loveless marriage and suffocating life during a three-day Christmas weekend at the royal family’s country mansion. “Any picture or interview I’ve ever seen of her, there’s an explosive, ground-shaking quality to her that I always feel like you never really know what’s going to happen. There’s a dance montage in “Spencer” that feels like you’re taking everything you learned about Diana and putting it into movement. But as ’80s songs go, Mike & the Mechanics’ “All I Need Is a Miracle” felt like an inspired choice for a footloose getaway.