Kristen Stewart made The Yellow Handkerchief before she embarked on the Twilight saga. Now its release will benefit from her star power. She promises she'll still make little indie films even though she's a huge star now.
"I mean, as much as you can say I'd like to do this because it's different from what I've done before, I can't really plan things out like that," Stewart said. "Despite whether or not a character sort of fits my description and the script is good, what actually drives me to do something like this, which is a really bizarre thing if you think about it: to play a part in a film and for more reason than just 'Oh, I get to be in a movie.' It's like no, I want to live out this life. It's like, why? So it has to speak to me in some way and that's always hard to describe, so I don't know what I want to do. This is the first time I haven't had one of my next jobs lined up so I have a totally clean horizon. That's actually pretty exciting."
Well, there will be another Twilight movie or two, but perhaps before that goes, she'll find another quirky character drama. Handkerchief casts her as a New Orleans teen on a road trip with two strangers.
"Really I follow, to put it absolutely lamely, my heart," she said. "It would be really a shame if just because I did one movie, and I know it's four or five or whatever, but it is one story. It's one project for me. It's the same character. It's not like that changes, so if something like that would then affect choices, I don't have this scheme of how people are going to receive my movies in the order that I do them and why I do scary movies and why I do movies about 'disaffected teens,' which I get all the time. They're just people I really wanted to play. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm just playing parts that speak to me."
Still, it must be nice to have her pick, right? "To be honest, it's such a weird thing to talk about in this capacity. You always sort of don't look at scripts that are very clearly just framework and they just want to put a dollar sign in the picture frame. It's so obvious. I only want to do work that I find to be moving and that's something that I can't be specific about. So I'm totally lucky and I can't believe that I am. I'm not saying that I can do anything but I definitely have more opportunity than I've ever had so it's awesome."
The Yellow Handkerchief opens Friday.
"I mean, as much as you can say I'd like to do this because it's different from what I've done before, I can't really plan things out like that," Stewart said. "Despite whether or not a character sort of fits my description and the script is good, what actually drives me to do something like this, which is a really bizarre thing if you think about it: to play a part in a film and for more reason than just 'Oh, I get to be in a movie.' It's like no, I want to live out this life. It's like, why? So it has to speak to me in some way and that's always hard to describe, so I don't know what I want to do. This is the first time I haven't had one of my next jobs lined up so I have a totally clean horizon. That's actually pretty exciting."
Well, there will be another Twilight movie or two, but perhaps before that goes, she'll find another quirky character drama. Handkerchief casts her as a New Orleans teen on a road trip with two strangers.
"Really I follow, to put it absolutely lamely, my heart," she said. "It would be really a shame if just because I did one movie, and I know it's four or five or whatever, but it is one story. It's one project for me. It's the same character. It's not like that changes, so if something like that would then affect choices, I don't have this scheme of how people are going to receive my movies in the order that I do them and why I do scary movies and why I do movies about 'disaffected teens,' which I get all the time. They're just people I really wanted to play. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm just playing parts that speak to me."
Still, it must be nice to have her pick, right? "To be honest, it's such a weird thing to talk about in this capacity. You always sort of don't look at scripts that are very clearly just framework and they just want to put a dollar sign in the picture frame. It's so obvious. I only want to do work that I find to be moving and that's something that I can't be specific about. So I'm totally lucky and I can't believe that I am. I'm not saying that I can do anything but I definitely have more opportunity than I've ever had so it's awesome."
The Yellow Handkerchief opens Friday.
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