Kristen Talks Love, Marriage,and Pregnancy

Kristen talks love, marriage, and pregnancy with Box Office Magazine.

What’s it like working on a film where people are so fascinated by the tiny details? However you and your hair designer decide to style your hair for the wedding, thousands of girls are going to copy it for their own wedding or prom.

It’s funny. It’s something you have to put out of your mind while you’re working, or else it’s incredibly heavy, it weighs you down. You want to do something that is clear to you. But at the same time, it makes it exciting, like, “I hope they like it!” I’m also on their level: I’m just as worried about how the hair is going to look. It’s just not normal for other people to be as concerned about something that you’re concerned about on the movie. Usually, people don’t know, people don’t care. It’s unique, really unique in that way. I’ve never experienced that on another project.

Knowing that other people take your role as seriously as you do—it’s kind of a great confluence of actor and audience.

Yeah. It really is pretty amazing, and it’s so different. I’ve had a taste of it in a couple movies, but this case was the most extreme. Playing real people, you get a similar experience. With Joan Jett [in The Runaways] and then and then On the Road, where I play this woman who’s absolutely f–king incredible, LuAnne Henderson [who inspired the character of Marylou in the novel and film]. That was so important on a level that had nothing to do with me. So it’s a similar experience. Usually, I own these parts—they’re mine and the director’s and the writer’s. But this has relevance on another level in the real world.

That’s true. Especially with On the Road, Marylou is based on a real person but she’s also existed in the minds of readers for six decades. And you’ve got the pressure to make them all happy with your take on that character. Were there moments during Twilight where you were wondering how much you could make the character your own?

Having read the books and sitting down with everyone involved, it’s so funny. People don’t love the same things you love all the time. And some things I would remember from the book never existed. It was odd. Like, that something had happened to Bella between films and I would fight tooth and nail for it, but it wasn’t there. I had made it up. It was something I had imagined from between the times that are there. Which is a strange experience, especially when you’re arguing with the director. Then I’d go back and read chapter 23 and it wasn’t there. It was so weird. But different things are important to different people and you’ve got to choose. And that’s what makes the job cool, that’s what makes the movie ours. It’s a strange thing. It’s owned by so many people at this point—it has such a huge past and we’ve had so many directors. I must sound totally corny and weird, but it’s loved by an insanely diverse and large group of people.

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