Kristen Stewart speaks [Full Interview]

Subject: Kristen Stewart speaks [Full Interview] Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:53 am

Yellow Handkerchief star shines

Kristen Stewart walked into our suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills quite casually dressed in a V-neck T-Shirt and jeans, yet Stewart was quite serious when it comes to her latest film The Yellow Handkerchief. The Twilight star, known as Bella to billions, filmed The Yellow Handkerchief before the Stephenie Meyer-authored madness began in Louisiana days after Hurricane Katrina.

The Yellow Handkerchief also stars William Hurt and Maria Bello in a romance, road trip movie and love letter to the state of Louisiana.

Three characters -- Stewart’s Martine, Hurt’s Brett and British actor Eddie Redmayne’s Gordy -- head out on a journey when each is seeking to run away or to something redeeming.

Waving The Yellow Handkerchief

SheKnows: The film was shot years ago, what is it like to think back to a film set before the Twilight phenomenon?

Kristen Stewart: Anytime you play someone who is not yourself, you’re stepping out of your comfort zone. That’s sort of, what we do, and if the role is bigger, that is more to chew on and that’s always good (laughs).

SheKnows: Arthur Cohn serves as producer. As a winner of many Oscars, what did you take away from the Arthur Cohn experience?

Kristen Stewart: He has such a faith in the material. It’s a very old school sense of, “I’m the producer and I’m going to take care of everybody and the most important thing here is the movie and the performances.” And…chocolate (laughs)!

SheKnows: Loves his chocolate…now speaking of guys, perhaps not so valiant as Arthur Cohn, the men in your character’s life in The Yellow Handkerchief are hardly model citizens. What do you think it was about the character of Gordy that you believe made Martine fall in love with him?

Kristen Stewart: She wouldn’t have needed to be won over if she had just opened her eyes and not been so affected by the other guys who had hurt her. I think that she’s the type of girl who really wants to let her face hang out. Every time she does that or puts herself out there, she gets disappointed by people. I think the journey that they take, for me, the thing that made me see Martine fall for him was how Brett (Hurt) looks at him. It’s about a girl who is dropping prejudices that she didn’t know she had.

Stewart on working with a stalwart

SheKnows: What was it like for you as a young actor to work with such a professional thespian as William Hurt?

Kristen Stewart: He is absolutely the most attentive, hard-working actor I’ve ever worked with and I say that about actors I like to work with, I say that about a lot of people, oh, they’re really hard working, I really appreciate them. But, he is absolutely, you don’t know more than him. Regarding a story, he makes you work so much harder to understand the movie. I would not have understood this movie as much as I do, I would have a completely different impression, I’m sure.

Kristen's Katrina journey

SheKnows: In the film, there’s three of you in a journey, but Maria Bello’s character hangs over the convertible like a ghost, but also, the geography is truly a fifth character. How do you see your character?

Kristen Stewart: My character was so sensitive and so explosive, just like…you would never expect from this tiny little thing so much…what is wrong with you? Her problems are so completely far away from anything that he could understand, it’s like opposite sides of a magnet that just (her voice gets louder) flip over!

SheKnows: The scene where you and Eddie Redmayne kiss, is the moment of the movie. Was there any, “Oh, my God” moments before filming?

Kristen Stewart: That was what I was most intimidated by technically speaking. Literally, I start from being completely, she’s so explosive and so emotional and so raw in that moment. It was a very defining moment for her. If you do that wrong, if it seems out of no where, if I seem like an explosive weird emotional girl for no reason, arbitrarily, that was what I was nervous about. The characters were drawn so wholly and completely that if we didn’t’ play them that way, it wouldn’t have made sense. But, the last scene of the movie, that was what I was really putting everything into because it was written differently.

SheKnows: Really…

Kristen Stewart: When we got there, we didn’t have a whole lot of time to shoot. It was raining. It was like, “OK, we have 10 minutes to get this right.” Everything with her is so thin skinned, she feels everything so much. That moment when it all comes to fruition, it’s everything.

SheKnows: It is a road trip movie, but The Yellow Handkerchief was filmed in over 40 locations. Did that ever wear on you?

Kristen Stewart: It was cool because it was a road trip movie. It felt like we were on that.

SheKnows: The shoot was in and around New Orleans and after Katrina, but did you get to get out into the city of New Orleans at all and discover it’s magic?

Kristen Stewart: I was 17 when we shot this movie. I didn’t really get to…I love New Orleans. I’ve been there since. But, I’m still underage. New Orleans is such a going out town, just walking around is awesome. It’s an amazing place to be and you go see great music. Well, you can stand outside the club (laughs).

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