Kristen Stewart talks movie, reputation and France - BBC news

photograph copyright Gravier productions photograph caption Kristen Stewart says "there is a bit vicinity for me" in Cannes

Twilight celebrity Kristen Stewart, who stars in two videos at this yr's Cannes movie pageant, discusses fame, the click and the way it feels to be "big in France".

There are a few actors and actresses who are doubling up at Cannes via having multiple movie to monitor or promote.

now not many, even though, are returning to the pageant with a Cesar on their mantelpiece, received for the film that last occasioned their discuss with to the event.

Stewart got here to Cannes in 2014 with Clouds of Sils Maria, a movie that went on to win her a Cesar - France's equal of the Oscar - right here yr.

This year she's returned, now not simply to bang the drum for Woody Allen's festival opener Cafe Society, however additionally to greatest her 2d movie with Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas.

picture copyright Arte France Cinema graphic caption Stewart is keen to get behind the digital camera

Her roles in the two might rarely be greater different. In Allen's newest, she performs a Hollywood film studio secretary in the Nineteen Thirties who blossoms right into a prosperous, glamorously-gowned socialite.

In very own consumer, in the meantime, she's the one buying the gowns in her role as a scooter-riding stylist whose life is unsettled through a mysterious texting stalker.

together they symbolize a new profession chapter for an actress previously most desirable standard for her work within the Twilight fantasy collection.

it's, she admits, "in fact cool" to be clutched another time to Cannes' bosom.

"The incontrovertible fact that there is a little vicinity for me right here makes me so proud," she grins.

"I appear on the other actors from the [United] States who've had a spot here and they're all people I establish with and idol ise.

"or not it's a good community to be a part of. i like festivals, but this is the most appropriate one."

Stewart is being self-deprecating when she refers to herself as being "large in France". In reality, although, this 26-12 months-old is relatively big all over.

And with that comes a terrible - the media's obsessive interest in her personal life and a relentless paparazzi presence shadowing her every circulation.

picture copyright Reuters photograph caption Stewart says her adventure of being within the spotlight is diverse to Allen's

We speak shortly after Allen has informed newshounds at Cannes that the inability of privacy some actors suffer is "now not a lifestyles-threatening difficulty" and that "the perks outweigh the downsides".

possibly understandably, Stewart - whose relationships together with her Twilight co-superstar Robert Pattinson, director Rupert Sanders and French performer Stephanie "Soko" Sokolinski had been neatly documented in different places - regards the situation otherwise.

"Woody is 80-years-historical," she says of the veteran director of Annie corridor, manhattan and too many others to mention.

"He became famous at a very distinctive time.

"we've got had totally distinctive experiences with repute and the style we eat the truth exhibit it truly is the leisure business.

"it be like i have been forged in a comic book as a character this is absolutely developed by means of all and sundry however me.

"He has had very diverse experiences wi th the paparazzi and being in a position to stroll outdoor his front door. he is appropriate, it's nonetheless value it, however's not that primary."

most likely or not it's the trimmings, good and unhealthy, that include being in entrance of the digital camera that has made Stewart crave to be at the back of it.

"I wrote a short (movie) a couple of years in the past and here is the appropriate time to do it," she confirms. "I obtained it financed currently and i'm going to do it in June or July."

although reluctant to assert more about a private mission she hopes will "communicate for itself", Stewart expresses a robust desire to be a lightning rod for skill.

"When energy gets put right into a assignment appropriate, it be like retaining onto this in fact breakable little object that is very valuable," she explains.

"it truly is what I need to do. I need to be the catalyst."

Cafe Society opened the 2016 Cannes film pageant while own shopper will top-quality at Cannes on Tuesday. both might be released within the UK at a later date.