Kristen Stewart Reveals Why It Was Difficult To Play Bella Swan

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In a new interview, Kristen opens up about the main challenge she faced playing the role of Bella, and the difference between playing a fictional character compared to a real-life person. Read on for more details.

Kristen Stewart has played a variety of roles over the past years, from rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways, to adventurous Marylou in On the Road. Now, the actress explains why playing Twilight‘s Bella Swan has been perhaps the toughest.

Kristen explained to Toronto Now what is was like playing the real-life character of Marylou in On The Road. “I tortured myself in the most amazing, wonderful way for four weeks and then as soon as the four weeks were done it was like, ‘You need to stop thinking, because if you don’t you’re gonna regret this entire experience. You’re gonna look back and say, ‘I fucked up. I thought too much.’”

Kristen Stewart On Playing Bella Swan

Unlike Marylou and Joan, Bella is a purely fictional character, making it more challenging for Kristen, because she had no real-life person to draw from.

“I don’t want to discredit what it feels like to play a character who’s been written by somebody,” Kristen said. “You feel just as responsible to the writer and to everyone who’s been affected by that character.”

Kristen On Playing A Real-Life Person

“I’ve played Joan Jett and because she was on set every day I couldn’t improv. I couldn’t. Everything I said, I spoke to her about it. You know — you can’t put words in their mouths unless you know. Unless you really feel it, and it’s coming from the right place,” Kristen explained.

Are you surprised that playing the role of Bella Swan was difficult for Kristen? What do YOU think HollywoodLifers? Which character do you think seems the most challenging to portray?

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It was difficult because Bella is dull and boring? And terribly written?

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Girls, this isn’t true – they just came back from a successful vacation together and he’s got a movie to make. We’ll be seeing snaps of him and Kris in a few weeks when she goes down under to visit him. They make this stuff up so you’ll get angry at the headline and surf in here – and that is the ONLY reason. It makes them money and just happens to hurt you at the same time.
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I think you just make things up as you go along. I go to entertainment news they seem to get their facts as straight as possible. I do understand that Rob and Kris are very quiet about their private life and sometime it is hard to get it right, but Hollywood Life just hasn’t done a very accurate job.

Aaaagh, What is this about HL, pro KS campaign to clean her image or does she owns this site??

She is right, though. With a real person, you have their aspects,their experiences, their nuances,to draw from. From a fictional person,there is nothing to base anything on,except what the writer,has written. And because the character came from the writer, the actor must crawl inside the writer’s head,and draw from that.
Most difficult,indeed.