Kristen Stewart takes Bella Swan through her wedding, honeymoon, pregnancy in “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″
Kristen Stewart arrives at the world premiere of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" on Monday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. To read my review of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” click here.
Being Bella Swan
In “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” Kristen Stewart plays her well-known character through big milestones, including her wedding, honeymoon and pregnancy.
LOS ANGELES — Over the past few years, Kristen Stewart has taken “Twilight” heroine Bella Swan through her first love and her first devastating breakup, her high school prom and graduation.
But as fans of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling supernatural romance books know, the big milestones for Bella begin with “Breaking Dawn.”
With Friday’s theatrical debut of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” “Twi-hards” will finally get the chance to see Bella and her courtly vampire fiancé Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) get married, take their romantic honeymoon and find their new life forever altered when Bella gets pregnant. The impending birth not only threatens Bella’s life — an emergency vampire conversion will be her only hope for survival — it also endangers the Cullen clan’s pact with the local werewolves of the Quileute Tribe, including Bella’s best pal, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
“It’s such a far-fetched story in all, but it’s really not if you just compare it to somebody who is my age,” said Stewart, 21, during a recent press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel. “It really crams a lot of milestones into one movie. It was almost like within this series, it doesn’t last for very long period of time, but it was a much more full experience than you really would ever get to have with something about a girl that age. Because of her unique situation, I really did get to live like 10 to 15 years in those four to five because … all the imposing elements just speed everything up.”
Ushering the beloved character though life-changing milestones like marriage and pregnancy became intense, Stewart said.
“I’m pretty wrapped up in her and vice versa. I’ve always felt like you really project yourself onto that character. If you’re the type of girl to identify with Bella, then you just kind of are her,” she said.
“Basically, yes, I had all of those experiences. I definitely looked down (at my belly) and figured ‘geez!’”
Like many brides, when she was walking down the aisle as Bella, Stewart struggled to stop worrying and start savoring one of the biggest moments in the saga.
“I had a million different things going to my head, but kind of what I kept telling myself was ‘Stop. Stop. Just do it and actually have this experience because you’re just about to ruin it,’” she said.
“I know the story so well … so I just kind of kept telling myself to ‘Just find yourself in this moment and appreciate it or else you’re going to look back and go, “God, why didn’t I just take that ride and just do it? It would have been better in the movie anyway.”’ I tried the best I could.”
Since director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg divided Meyer’s heavy fourth and final novel into two movies that filmed at the same time, Stewart didn’t always get to play the big moments in Bella’s life in the proper order.
“Making two movies at once … was fun but it was hard, though, because it was such a big thing,” Condon said. “She would be young Bella, high school girl, in the morning and then a vampire in the afternoon and then a pregnant mother in the evening. She had days like that. It was crazy.”
Although the mixed-up production schedule presented challenges, Stewart said it also helped her get into the proper mindset to portray Bella.
“Being able to play a vampire, a human, a woman who’s pregnant and a woman who’s about to get married, literally sometimes within the same day or sometimes in the same week actually helped,” she said.
“Everything felt more important and more relevant to me. It was sort of like everything felt very close. So I think if we did it more systematically, it just wouldn’t have been the same. Everything was happening all at once. It was just so overwhelming that it was good. It gives you that energy every day.”
With the demands of the production schedule, the Los Angeles native didn’t have to lose the weight Bella does as her fast-growing baby saps the nutrients and vitality from her body.
“Digital! Totally. I didn’t have time. Everything was so sporadically shot. To do that, we would’ve had to shut down production for a couple of months while I lost the weight or gained it back, whichever we did first,” she said.
“It does make you feel a little bit like, ‘Oh, I hope you guys do a good job because I can’t do that part.’ … Those guys are amazing at what they do.
Although “Breaking Dawn — Part 2” won’t make it to the big screen for another year, in the meantime, Stewart will play another well-known dark-haired beauty caught up in a paranormal adventure in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” due in theaters June 1. The actress found intensely maternal qualities in both young fairy tale women.
“Every single time I think about this installment (of ‘Twilight’), I just think of a cat in the corner, claws out, belly swollen, like ‘Stay the F away from me!’” said Stewart, who wore a wrap on her hand she attributed to an injury “fighting dwarves.”
“I guess a million comparisons can be drawn, but the one thing that sticks out in my mind is that they really both are, in different ways, matriarchs — very strong, strong matriarchs that need to find that position … But it’s so different.”
-BAM
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