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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Kristen nominated Best Film Performance for 'Spencer' by The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA)


Dorian Award Nomination: BEST FILM PERFORMANCE

Nicolas Cage, Pig (Neon)

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)

Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter (Netflix)

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics)

Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick. . . Boom! (Netflix)

Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World (Neon)

Simon Rex, Red Rocket (A24)

Kristen Stewart, Spencer (Neon)

Tessa Thompson, Passing (Netflix)

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'Spencer' is nominated for Best Film Music

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Winners announced 17 March.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Kristen nominated for Best Lead Actress for 'Spencer' by the International Film Society Critics



Best Lead Actress

Jodie Comer - The Last Duel

Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter

Tessa Thompson - Passing

Kristen Stewart - Spencer 

Agathe Rousselle - Titane 

Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World

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Other Nominations: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Cinematography

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Winners announced 6 March.

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Kristen for the LA Times on her Academy Award nomination for 'Spencer' and more


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Kristen Stewart is scrolling through her phone, looking for a song that made her cry. It’s Valentine’s Day. The sun is setting over Griffith Park, and we’re sitting on a sofa at the house of a friend of a friend. This being Los Feliz, that friend is a DJ, and he has a couch rigged up with speakers inside the cushions. But we’re not sitting on that couch, nor are we partaking in the weed growing around back, because, again, it’s Valentine’s Day, and as soon as we’re done talking, Stewart wants to get home to her fiancée, screenwriter Dylan Meyer. They’re staying in. “We’re kind of peopled out right now, so no fellow humans,” Stewart says. She lands on the song “When I Was a Boy,” a beautiful late-period Electric Light Orchestra ballad that Stewart kept in her back pocket in case she ever had to dive into some deep well of sadness while playing Princess Diana in “Spencer” and needed a little help getting there. Which happened, of course, when filmmaker Pablo Larraín asked her to do this big emotional scene where Diana returns to her childhood home and just starts sobbing and Stewart was too exhausted to wrap her head around it.

“Remember Pablo telling you that there’s nothing better than a tired actor?” Stewart asks, recalling an earlier conversation we had with Larraín. She’s not completely sold on that notion. But she kept this ELO song in the sort of secured place like you’d house a fire extinguisher, and then on the day, she broke the glass, played the ballad and was properly gutted by it.

“Oh, my God, it’s so good,” Stewart says. “You should play it in the car when you leave ... unless you want to play it right now.” We consider it but then get distracted by another “Spencer"-adjacent song, Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” We’d been talking about Los Angeles, and I ask her what she thinks would constitute a perfect day for someone visiting L.A. for the first time. Not surprisingly, given her love for the city (she has an L.A. tattoo on her wrist), Stewart has an answer that’s so sensational in its specificity that it belongs on the city’s tourism board website.

“OK, we’d wake up early and walk up to the [Griffith] observatory,” Stewart begins. “It’s stunning. You look at where James Dean did his thing. You look at that weird bust thing. Then on the way back instead of taking the trail that we came up on, because I hate retracing my steps, I would find the secret staircase that leads you down into a different neighborhood with all these cool homes.

“Then on Riverside Drive, we’d find the truck and get a Ricky’s fish taco. It’s the greatest taco, absolutely perfect, one of the best things I’ve had in my whole life. They’re classic Baja, but they also do shrimp. Get one of each. Don’t forget all the sauces, because they don’t put them on themselves, which is good, because you can control it.” (Stewart would be the first to tell you she’s a control freak.)

“Then I think you should have some alone time and just enjoy the air,” Stewart continues. “Maybe take a walk around Los Feliz, pick some loquats if they’re in season and then go watch a movie at the Vista or the Los Feliz 3.” She laughs. “This is all within five minutes of my house.” Which makes sense, she adds, as she has lived on the Eastside for most of her adult life. (“If it gets below 75 degrees, I’m freezing,” Stewart says.)

There are endless variations of this perfect day that Stewart would recommend. Take Topanga Canyon to PCH, head north and land at whichever beach isn’t too crowded. “Go to f— Venice,” she enthuses. “Go rollerblading. Bring a sandwich. People-watch.” Go to In-N-Out and have a cheeseburger or grilled cheese. Go have a taco at Yuca’s in Los Feliz.

“I would just go have tacos all day,” Stewart says when I point out a certain running thread in her picks. “I wouldn’t eat anywhere that isn’t a stand or a truck. Like, I would wait for it to get really late, take you to the Valley, skate around and get really hungry and then find a taco truck that stays open all night. Because tacos taste different at that hour ... even if you’re not wasted.”

Stewart, 31, has enjoyed a few days of late that, if not perfect, come pretty damn close. She was nominated for her first Oscar, for “Spencer,” which came as a surprise to her, even though her unflinching portrayal of Diana ranked as one of the finest moments in a distinguished career. How much of a surprise? Stewart didn’t set an alarm on the morning nominations were announced, telling Meyer, “Dude. Just doing the movie was enough for me.” Then she woke up at 7, as it was getting light in their bedroom, looked at her phone, saw scores of text messages and emoji balloons and turned to Meyer and said, “Oh, my God, dude, I got it.”

“It was just such a surreal moment,” Stewart says, laughing at the memory. “I will be totally honest and just say it was so cool. I could not believe it.”

The real question — and I’m not going to ask her to choose — is whether she was more stoked about the Oscar nomination or the hole-in-one she scored near the end of 2020 at Roosevelt Golf Course in Griffith Park. Stewart became obsessed with golf two years ago, rediscovering the game she took up with her dad as a kid when they’d hit balls at the Van Nuys Golf Course. The catalyst was finding a couple of friends, “lady golfers” she likes to call them, who matched her size, experience level and enthusiasm.

“We’re all just trying to outdo each other instead of just getting smoked at the golf course,” Stewart says, noting that the sport is demoralizing enough without playing with people above your level. And, she adds, “walking around Roosevelt with your homies” qualifies as another classic L.A. experience.

“We just have these relationships with these little deer and coyotes,” Stewart says. She hands me her phone, showing me a picture she took moments after her hole-in-one. She’s lying on the green at Roosevelt’s ninth hole, looking delirious, like she had been struck by lightning. For the record: Stewart used a seven-iron on the 124-yard hole because it was late in the day and her hands were freezing.

“I was not feeling strong,” she says, wanting me to make sure to note that’s why she wasn’t using, say, a nine-iron on such a short hole. And, as we’ve already established, she gets cold easily.

Stewart can also be prone to moments of self-consciousness. She’s never been one to follow rules, but when she was younger, she used to dread getting in trouble. She remembers growing up in Woodland Hills (“I’m proud to be a Valley girl”) and skateboarding to a little hill overlooking Ventura Boulevard and sneaking through someone’s backyard in order to access the slope and look at the world.

“That was my favorite thing, because that one hill would turn green in the spring for, like, two weeks before the Valley summer turned it brown,” Stewart says. “It was the coolest worst thing I could do, because I had to kind of break into a backyard to get there. But I never got caught. I didn’t have a problem with being slightly reckless, but it was the getting-caught part that always worried me.”

Stewart says she’s more open to being an “embarrassing idiot” now, offering as an example how she has mostly worked through her fear of dancing in public after filming dance scenes for “Spencer.” Still, when we’re talking about how much she loves driving around L.A., listening to music in her car — she grew up on local oldies station K-EARTH 101 and remains a devoted listener, even though she’s “completely rattled” that the station’s idea of what constitutes an “oldie” has moved from Motown to Modern English — she refuses to sing along if someone else is in the car. And don’t even bring up karaoke.

“But if someone asked me to do a musical, I’d be like, ‘F— yeah,’” Stewart says. “Because someone would teach me, and I’d end up having an experience that’s totally outside my comfort zone, one that would change me. That’s immensely appealing.”

Which makes me think about her upcoming wedding — or, more specifically, her upcoming wedding reception. She and Meyer became engaged last year, and Stewart wants to get married, sooner rather than later. The ceremony itself doesn’t mean that much to her. It’s more about the party afterward, the gathering of their friends and families, a big group of people who’d never otherwise be together in the same place.

“I kind of think I want to do that,” Stewart says, drawing out every word in that sentence. “But then when I really think about it, I’m like, ‘Do I want to do that?’”

“There would be public dancing,” I offer. “There’s no way you could avoid that.”

“Definitely ... we would have to dance through that,” Stewart says. “You’d have to take the piss a little bit. We’d have to be like, ‘This is absurd that we’re doing this.’ There was a time in my life where I was like, ‘No, I would never get married. Like married married, like put a dress on and walk down the aisle married. And by the way, I’m not doing that. That’s not going to be the type of wedding that I have. The fact that I’ve already said, ‘Hey, let’s get married’ and that we have rings and stuff ... we’re kind of already done.”

Stewart leans in. It’s been dark outside for a while now, and it’s time to get home to our valentines. But she’s still sorting her thoughts about the wedding, wondering if she’s being too impulsive.

“The thing is, I always kind of blow presentation,” Stewart says. “I have all these big ideas, like I will get a friend a beautiful present that I’m so proud of. And I just think they’re going to love it. But instead of wrapping it up and like putting a bow on it and giving it to them at the right time, I’m like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I have this thing and I know it’s like a week before your birthday, but just f— have it because I love it and I love you.’ And if I had just wrapped it and put this in their hands on the right day, the impact would have been greater.

“And so I’m probably going to do that with my wedding too.” She cracks up at the thought. “I’m probably going to look back and have to do it again ... which would surprise absolutely no one who knows me.”

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Kristen will attend the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards as the Honorary Chair

 


THR Kristen Stewart will serve as the honorary chair of the 2022 Spirit Awards, Film Independent announced on Thursday.

The actress was recently nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Spencer. Her portrayal of Princess Diana has garnered her more than 22 critics awards.

“Independent film has been a formative and vital aspect of my life since I was a child. As an insider and an outsider it’s clear to me how the support it offers artists is essential. I couldn’t be more proud to serve as honorary chair this year and to help in celebrating all the nominees!” says Stewart. 

Film Independent’s Josh Welsh adds: “We are thrilled to have Kristen Stewart serve as our honorary chair this year. A true risk-taker, in all of her choices she embodies the fearlessness and bold originality that is at the heart of the Spirit Awards.”  

Stewart starred in 2002’s Panic Room and then gained global recognition when she starred in The Twilight Saga. In 2015, she became the first American actress to be awarded a Cesar Award in the best supporting actress category for her role in Clouds of Sils Maria. Then, in 2017, she made her directorial debut with Come Swim which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Her other credits include Lizzie, Seberg, Charlie’s Angels and Happiest Season. Next up, she’ll be seen in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future alongside Viggo Mortensen. She recently wrapped a sci-fi love story film with Steven Yeun, and is co-writing and directing The Chronology of Water.

Past honorary chairs include Shaka King, Lena Waithe, Ava DuVernay, Jessica Chastain, Ang Lee, David Oyelowo, Jodie Foster, Javier Bardem, Kerry Washington, Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, among others.

The Spirit Awards will take place on March 6 and will air on IFC and stream on AMC+ at 5 p.m. ET.

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Film Independent With her work in the Twilight franchise now safely confined the juvenilia wing of the Kristen Stewart archives, cineastes today are far more likely to associate the actor’s name with a long string of critically acclaimed art house favorites. From teenage rockers to iconic royalty, the 31-year-old performer has been breathing life into complex—and frequently marginalized—characters for two decades, going all the way back to her arresting turn alongside Jodie Foster in David Fincher’s 2002 thriller, Panic Room. As the kids would say, we Stan.

It’s no surprise then that this morning, Stewart was named the Honorary Chair of the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards—a position previously bestowed on figures including Shaka King, Lena Waithe, Ava DuVernay, Jessica Chastain, Ang Lee, David Oyelowo, Foster, Javier Bardem, Kerry Washington, Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, among others.

“Independent film has been a formative and vital aspect of my life since I was a child,” said Stewart. “As an insider and an outsider, it’s clear to me how the support it [independent film] offers is essential. I couldn’t be more proud to serve as Honorary Chair this year and to help in celebrating all the nominees!”















Kristen featured on the cover of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue 2022

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Kristen Stewart is not going to play it cool. “Everyone wants to win an Oscar, you know?” she says. She’s looking at me through rose-colored glasses, glowing in the California sun. Her face is sharp and delicate, like a marquise-cut diamond, framed by blond strands near-black at the roots. Her dog, Cole, barks in the Zoom background, lounging somewhere in the spacious Palm Springs Airbnb where Stewart is on vacation. Stewart is in the midst of an awards campaign for Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s haunting portrait of three gasping days in the life of Princess Diana. The role has earned the actor—whose career began at 9 and exploded at 18—a new level of critical acclaim.

“I’m totally touched,” she says, smiling and taking off her sunglasses. It’s actually less about a particular statuette and more about the zeitgeist buoying a piece of work that she’s extremely proud of. She’s happy to be in the conversation and didn’t expect it—which is to say that after starring in the blockbuster Twilight franchise, she has used her clout to pick surprising films, like Clouds of Sils Maria, an Olivier Assayas drama that earned Stewart a César.

For years, Stewart’s appeal lay in her coolness, in the mumbling, angsty thing she projected in Twilight and refined over time. There have always been those who argue she’s among the best female actors of the millennial generation, and that sentiment is spreading. In the past, she tried to learn lines as close to filming as possible, allowing the words to stay alive longer. The Ram Dass school of acting; be here now, or nowhere. But Stewart had to eschew all that to play Diana, which required months of research and accent training. Larraín had unwavering faith in his American star—“He was always like, ‘If you wanted it to be, it could be as good as A Woman Under the Influence!’ ”—and Stewart went inward, channeling Diana’s loneliness. “One of the remarkable things is that she was so friendless,” she says, saddened. “I’m constantly going, ‘Where was your fucking homie?’ ”

Stewart sank as far as she could into every aspect of the princess’s pain, including her battle with bulimia. Spencer depicts her disorder frankly, showing her violently purging in a bathroom. “I wanted to make sure that was not glossed over,” says Stewart. She prepared herself beforehand and, in the scene, attempted to really purge. (“I’ll do fucking anything.”) Larraín, who was operating the camera, pushed in on her anguished face, capturing the act, but Stewart struggled. “I couldn’t throw up on this movie, even when I really should have,” she says. “I felt like absolute shit and I could not get it up, and I know it was because my body was just like…the idea of that was so untouchable.”

Despite her obsessive research, Stewart didn’t become an expert on the contemporary royals and only watched snippets of the explosive Prince Harry and Meghan Markle interview with Oprah Winfrey. “It was almost too hot to touch in terms of how personal it was for me at that time,” she says. I ask her if it’s strange to think about Harry and Meghan living in California. As improbable as it seems, Stewart was unaware of their move. “That’s so funny. I wonder where,” she muses. Then she stops. “I’m no better than anyone! Of course I want to know.” Santa Barbara, I tell her. She nods approvingly. “That makes sense. It’s really nice up there.”

Stewart herself lives in L.A. and, in November, revealed her engagement to her girlfriend of more than two years, screenwriter Dylan Meyer. “I love being engaged,” Stewart says with a smile. “It’s different.… I just feel so happy and lucky.” The duo is working on a TV show together, in which Stewart has said she will star. At first she was a little scared to work with Meyer, worried it might go sideways: “You don’t want that to affect this beautiful relationship you have.” They wound up writing the first episode in a week and a half. “Like we discovered a superbrain,” says Stewart. “She’s a really genuinely brilliant fucking screenwriter.”

While she looks ahead to future projects, she’s still firmly in the present, happily reuniting with Larraín on the awards trail for Spencer. The director’s confidence in her continues unabated. “He just loves this movie and me so much, and the purity of that is the sweetest and coolest thing,” she says. “We had such a great fucking time. There’s no way around that.”

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Kristen nominated Best Actress for 'Spencer' by The Minnesota Film Critics Alliance



BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

Penelope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers.”

Alana Haim, “Licorice Pizza.”

Emilia Jones, “CODA.”

Kristen Stewart, “Spencer.”

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Other nominations: Best Costume/ Makeup and Best Music

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Winners announced on 6 March.


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Monday, February 14, 2022

New/old photo of Kristen and Dylan shared on Valentine's Day - 14 February 2022


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 "I’ll play dead with you any time, Valentine."

(Photo was taken for Halloween 2021)

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Kristen at the 'Spencer' Q&A for the Malibu Film Society - 28 January 2022


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Following the Malibu Film Society screening of “Spencer” last Friday night, actress Kristen Stewart appeared in person for an audience Q&A and interview with Executive Director Scott Tallal. She plays the lead role in the film—Princess Diana—and is widely expected to receive an Oscar nomination for her performance.

Stewart, 31 and native to Los Angeles, already has 56 acting credits. Best known as the female lead in the Twilight five-movie saga; she’s also had major roles in films like “Charlie’s Angels (2019)” and “Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).” But the attention she’s been receiving for her performance as Princess Diana may eclipse all previous performances.

 “Spencer,” released in November 2021, is a historical fiction/psychological drama directed by Pablo Larraín. It was inspired by Princess Diana’s 1992 decision to leave Prince Charles, take her children to London, and be free of the British royal family.  

In describing how she felt about playing Princess Diana, Stewart said, “The energy she left behind [was amazing]. I felt like I was 10 feet tall and a superhero, and it was because of her. I imagine that’s how she made people feel because that’s how she makes me feel.”

In preparing to play Diana, Stewart said she was lucky to get the role a year and a half before the film started shooting, with time to do her own research. When first approached by Larrain about the role, she told him, “I don’t think I can do this at all.” He told her, “I do.”

“I think Pablo (director) had a little bit of reticence in terms of me consuming all of the information because he wanted the film to be about certain abstract ideas and feelings. If you’re too weighed down by facts, then you feel pressured to get it perfectly right,” Stewart said. “And there was no way to get this right. The movie was completely imagined but inspired by facts. What you see is not, not true; but neither is it true.”

After Tallal pointed out that both she and Princess Di had to deal with the issue of fame, Stewart said she recognized they had that in common but that her own experience with fame was still quite different from someone in the royal family.

“My mom warned me that fame was potentially painful, and I was a pretty shy kid, but I still wanted to try acting,” she continued. “My mom invested $2,000 in my headshots and said if I made it in acting, I’d have to pay her back. And I took it so literally!”

“[Being famous], you can’t live a ‘normal’ life, but [on the positive side] you get to feel all these things from hundreds of people,” she reflected. On the downside, “I think people reveal themselves to you in a different way [if you’re famous]. I can immediately tell if someone is ‘the worst’ or not.”

“I know what it feels like to be looking over my shoulder and to be continuously observed,” she commented, “But it’s for such a different reason [than Diana]. Like for her, those cameras were there, and she was not allowed to talk.”

“I can fall on my face or even leave the stage right now – I can do anything. I’m allowed to exist and be a whole person,” she continued. “Diana was asked to be not a person. Imagine being so backed into a corner.”

As far as having a career strategy, Stewart maintains she doesn’t have one. “I don’t have a grand plan as far as the roles I choose. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t,” she responded.

Stewart’s own favorite film is “Woman under the Influence,” a 1974 film starring Gena Rowlands. “I don’t know an actress that doesn’t hold this film in an almost religious way.”

Her performance in “Spencer” (Princess Di’s maiden name) was strongly influenced by the writer and director.

“The script was so beautiful and so precise and so sparse,” she noted. “We knew where we were going, what every scene was supposed to do, but not how we would get there.”

“Larrain allowed a lot of freedom, yet I never felt alone,” Stewart continued. “He felt it so strongly; he could’ve played Princess Diana himself. His commitment to his vision blew me away. I never looked up and went, ‘Where are you?’ His eyes were there for me every second.”

The film was often shot very close to Stewart’s face—so close that the camera sometimes bumped into her—which proved to be a new challenge. “When someone steps into our personal space, you can’t hide anything, so I had to make sure people saw something,” she explained. “It makes you stand at attention and really feel you’re the one in the fishbowl [as Diana was].” 

Stewart doesn’t stay in character in the usual sense when not shooting a scene. “You can leave yourself behind but also find yourself in the process. You can straddle and have one foot in and one foot out [of the character], like concentric circles, and these become what the movie is. Because you can never not be you.”

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Photo of Kristen in LA - 8 February 2022


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Kristen is in the photo with Scout Productions producer, David Marker. 

The production company behind the gay ghost hunting series.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Friends and colleagues congratulate Kristen on her Best Actress Oscar Nomination for 'Spencer'


Dylan Meyer Guess I’m not gonna have to give her this anymore 😎

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