Twilight alum Kristen Stewart covers the September issue of Nylon magazine to promote the upcoming American Ultra movie starring Jesse Eisenberg. Both of these actors are wary of the spotlight but choose to handle the pressure in very different ways. Eisenberg tends to lash out with inappropriate hyperbole (comparing Comic-Con to genocide), whereas Stewart simply clams up. She’s said some iffy things in the past (comparing paparazzi to rapists), but Stewart has learned to navigate the press with more subtlety.
In this interview, Stewart talks up Ultra as a stoner comedy with a twist. She says the role was physically strenuous, and she’s proud of the final product. Stewart also successfully fields the journo’s questions about defining her sexuality:
“Google me, I’m not hiding.”
“If you feel like you really want to define yourself, and you have the ability to articulate those parameters and that in itself defines you, then do it. But I am an actress, man. I live in the f*cking ambiguity of this life and I love it. I don’t feel like it would be true for me to be like, ‘I’m coming out!’ No, I do a job. Until I decide that I’m starting a foundation or that I have some perspective or opinion that other people should be receiving … I don’t. I’m just a kid making movies.”
Stewart goes on to say she believes in gender fluidity, but she won’t put a label on herself. She hopes that, in the future, people won’t feel the pressure to identify as gay or straight. It’s hard to blame Stewart for being wary of the press. Whenever she and girlfriend Alicia Cargile step out together, there are constant “gal pal” references, which are just silly.
Stewart also hints at how “older actors” tell her to ignore the media and “just give them a smile.” Her response to them: “It must’ve been awesome without the Internet.”
(via Nylon)
