Smoking a cigarette on a 14th-floor balcony of the Four Seasons here last week, Ms. Stewart was animated and funny — until a question about whether her family really keeps wolves as pets. Her eyes narrowed and she nodded warily. She calls people who demand to know aspects of her private life “fiends.” As to whether or not she is dating Mr. Pattinson, she recently told Entertainment Weekly, “I’m not going to give the fiending an answer.”
Honesty is a theme she returns to repeatedly. “I’ve worked with actors who are just professional liars, and it eats away at them, and they are miserable people by the end of their careers,” she said.
SHOOT: I love how articulate she is. For such a young person, this is rare and quite wonderful.
“I do wish that people would focus more on the work, and I can’t say that I don’t take it personally,” said Ms. Stewart, who reprises her role as Bella Swan, an ordinary high school girl who falls in love with a sensitive vampire, in the forthcoming film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
“But I understand it because what you do as an actor is so tied up in who you are as a person,” she continued with a deep sigh. “What really kills me — it really rips me up — is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!”
Ms. Stewart has coped with the suffocating attention by giving off an air of inapproachability, a tough exterior that Chris Weitz, the director of “New Moon,” said she has methodically adopted. “If she didn’t, every teenage girl would see her as their best friend,” he said. “They would tear her completely apart.”
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