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Kristen Stewarts "Still Alice' Co-star Kate Bosworth Talks About Her
Richard Glatzer’s and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice features a trio of powerful female performances from TFF alums Julianne Moore (The English Teacher, TFF 2013), Kristen Stewart (Fierce People, The Cake Eaters, TFF 2005 & 2007) and Kate Bosworth (While We Were Here, TFF 2013). Moore received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s disease. Stewart and Bosworth play her two daughters who must deal with their mother’s diagnosis as well as their own genetics.
Tribeca Film Festival: Q: So you got to be another fantastic addition to this acting ensemble.
Kate: Of course! I’ve known Julie [Moore] throughout the years on a personal level, and she’s such an extraordinary woman. I admire her so much. She’s someone I look up to in all areas of life. I felt very fortunate to be able to work with her on a professional level. I also had the opportunity to watch her craft her character, which was something of a marvel to behold. I loved performing with her and Kristen [Stewart]. It’s rare you get the opportunity to work with two women in such a complex manner. I feel the three of us connected so well.
We were able to explore this family of women together, and we each brought something different to our perspective roles. It isn’t something I get the opportunity to do often. Normally—with being the female—you’re kind of the lone wolf on set [laughs], so it was really lovely to connect with them in that way.
Q: Anna is the dutiful, responsible daughter as opposed to Kristen Stewart’s free-spirited Lydia. How did you approach that dynamic?
Kate: We really didn’t discuss it that much. Every actor has a different approach to his or her work. I don’t like to rehearse very much. I like to have the camera roll and see what happens. Because of timing, that’s how we worked on Still Alice. There wasn’t a lot of time for discussion or rehearsal. Kristen inhabited her character so effortlessly and beautifully. I think, given the difference in our ages, there already was a different dynamic in place between us.
I don’t know if my character Anna had every gone through a soul searching experience or had a need for that sort of self-discovery. I feel like she always knew what college she wanted to attend, what kind of degree she would get, what kind of man she would marry, when they should have a baby and so on. She was probably always targeted in that way. I like to think that Anna likes to feel and assume the grown up position more than Lydia, even though she too is struggling. I can definitely identify with that.
Growing up, I think I created armor for myself so that I would not be too vulnerable [laughs]. I love being at the age I am now. I feel like I’ve left all that behind. It was really nice to work with Kristen and see how she utilized this transitional/coming of age aspect of Lydia’s life to make her more open to her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. That kind of openness makes Alice and Anna uncomfortable because they are women who like to think they are quite together. The switch happens when Anna is unable to deal with her mother on an emotional level and Lydia is able to come in and take over in that sense.
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Kristen Stewarts Stylist Tara Swennen ..Talks about Her NYC 'Still Alice' Promo Style
Fashionista.com: Kristen Stewart's Stylist Explains Her Love Affair With Laid-Back Suiting
It started with her "sexy James Dean" hair.
It's not secret that Kristen Stewart's post-"Twilight" no f--ks given vibe has freed the actress to fully embrace her style, and we here at Fashionista are digging it. In just the past month, she has been making the rounds promoting her new film "Still Alice" wearing masculine-inspired suits almost exclusively and every look has been on-point.
Stewart's stylist Tara Swennen says the reason for the fresh new style is two-fold: New York's winter weather and her new cropped hair. "It's the perfect opportunity for me as stylist to approach a new angle that maybe we haven't hit," she says about the shorter hair. "That's why I thought the suiting was kind of cool for her. To me she sort of oozes that sexy James Dean kind of look right now. That's sort of where I was going."
Stewart has had cropped hair before (it started back when she filmed the Joan Jett biopic in 2010 and has been existing in different variations every since), but Swennen says this time is different. "It wasn't as sleek, it has grown out a little bit now and it's very sophisticated. But, you know, Kristen loves a pantsuit and so anytime we can do a pant, a jumpsuit, that type of thing -- we like to throw it in, and especially the New York weather was a great opportunity to do that."
Her "Today Show" outfit, pictured above, was perhaps the most striking of Stewart's recent looks, pairing sweatpants with an oversize collared shirt from the brand Atea Oceanie. "I personally had seen Kate Hudson in one of their suit sets and just sort of died and loved it so much and thought, 'That is the perfect brand for Kristen,'" said Swennen. "They have this great crisp boyfriend shirt button-up that was very, very oversized and we had to take it in to make it nice for TV, obviously. But I loved pairing it with sweats -- again, because I was thinking about the cold weather and Kristen and I are very comfort-oriented people. It was just something that she'd never really done before."
The same promo-packed day saw Stewart change into another suit for "Late Night with Seth Meyers" from the Paris-based brand Sandro, pictured above. "I've looked for a lot of suiting with her, but she's such a tiny, tiny person that this particular brand just fits her flawlessly," explains Swennen. "She's a big fan of A.L.C. and Jonathan Simkhai because they have sort of scuba tops that fit really well on her petite frame. So instead of pairing it with a collared shirt or a loose t-shirt, we went with a tighter fit this time." Swennen also noted that both suits complement the chunky locket necklace Stewart has been wearing, which was made for her by her makeup artist Jillian Dempsey.
And even when Stewart has to wear heels and a dress -- as she did to the New York premiere of "Still Alice," -- she and Swennen are still exploring new designers. "She'd never worn Roksanda before," says Swennen. "I had the dress at another fitting and I was in love with it, but it just never got tried on. So I called it back in and it was just one of those things where the moment she zipped it on, it literally just fit perfectly. It was flawless, I thought it was fabulous."
Despite her famous resistance to heels, Swennen says her long-time client knows when she has to ditch the sneakers. "I don't mind, after a decade at this point it's a given, I don't even balk at [her preference for sneakers]," she says, laughing. "But she knows when I would love her to wear the heel, she does it." And as for this new chapter in Stewart's red carpet aesthetic? Swennen says it's not strategic. "She's really comfortable with all this stuff. The beauty of her is that she really is a chameleon -- she'll go from wearing dresses to suits and as long as she can wear sneakers with it, she's good."
Julianne Moore talks about Kristen on 'Watch What Happens Live'
Transcript: "I love her. She's the best girl in the world. She is so talented and so soulful and cares about her work so much. I've known her since she was 12 years old. She's a great person. I don't know where this reputation came from because I've never seen any evidence of it. She is a wonderful actress and a wonderful person. So great in 'Still Alice'... so so good. I just love her. And honestly my husband cast her in a movie when she was 12... and he would come home everyday and say 'this girl is amazing. She's going to be a huge star.' And she is."
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Jamie Dornan Mentions Rob in an Interview with Variet
Transcript
Dornan is being accosted by people everywhere who warn him his life is about to change. “Everyone that I meet, people who run studios or other actors, everybody is saying, ‘Are you ready?’ I don’t have a good answer for that, because I don’t know what I’m meant to be ready for.” He’s had a few dinners with Robert Pattinson, who played what amounts to the PG-13 version of Christian in the “Twilight” franchise.
“I’ve been around Rob enough,” Dornan says. “I’ve seen what it’s been like for him.” Have they chatted about the price of fame? “I don’t remember what we talked about the last time I saw him,” he says. “I think we just got drunk.”
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