14 DAY TRIAL // Kristen Stewart, although still at the beginning of what will clearly be a very successful acting career, is not quite a darling with the media. It’s not that she hates doing interviews, it is being said, as it’s more that it goes against herself to, and the media has not remained blind to it. Either way, it’s good this happened, since the “Twilight” actress is convinced that paparazzi and the media in general want her soul.
The actress is the star on the cover of the upcoming issue of Dazed and Confused, which also comes with a candid interview, where Kristen is supposed to talk about anything from “New Moon,” to fame and love life. The interview has yet to appear online but Radar got a good look at it and, from what it says, it’s pretty impressive with its frankness. Then again, no matter if she offends or, on the contrary, impresses, Kristen Stewart does have this ability to shock with how genuine everything she does seems, or so the saying goes.
While on the topic of the mass-media, an explanation for why Stewart is always so aloof and reserved could be found in her belief that it wants her soul. People always get one’s persona mixed with the real person and she does not want that to happen to her. Yet, it is happening to her as we speak, the actress explains, since many things that she does or says are twisted in the newspapers and then blown out of proportion until they become something else.
“The fact is, the paparazzi and most interviewers, they want your soul. It’s so scary because your persona... and I guess I now have one, because people think of me in a certain way... is all based entirely on quick snippets of crazed moments in your life. And that is what people then base their entire opinion of me on!” Stewart says for the British magazine. This is why she’d rather stand quietly by and let the madness ensue, because she has learned that you can only fool the media for so long before it turns on you.
“Anything you say can come and bite you in the [expletive]. It’s not even like you say things you don’t mean, it’s just that sometimes they come out wrong.” Stewart says then of how it came that she’s painted as ungrateful, rude and spoiled in the media. The bottom line is, Kristen seems to say, that, perhaps, people should never be this quick to judge a book by its cover.