Kristen Stewart drew from first love experience for new film
Kristen Stewart knew her new movie Equals would be a tough shoot, because she drew from her own relationship experiences.
The Twilight actress and her co-star, Nicholas Hoult, play lovers in in a futuristic society, where emotions are outlawed, and the 26-year-old explains she pulled from her own experience of falling in love for the first time to help her with the role of Nia.
"I read the script and I was just like, 'This is going to suck and
hurt to think about'," she tells news show Entertainment Tonight.
"You just place yourself in that feeling that maybe you've had
before - it's the most visceral, intense, overwhelming feeling - so
when it's really great, it's epically great, and when it's really
bad, it's epically bad."
"So we knew going into it, this was gonna be like, 'Oof, this is
going to hurt'."
Despite her reservations about the emotional toll of the movie,
Kristen was happy to sign onto the film because she saw many
similarities between the role and that of her Twilight character
Bella.
"I'm obviously really drawn to that idea (of giving everything up
for love)," she adds. "That element of both stories is kind of what
turns me on the most about them. It's that idea of being, like,
seemingly weak or subject to something in terms of just your
capacity. You're emotional, you are completely raw and you are
willing to give it all up for someone, and so it seems that maybe,
like, you're on the bottom or something - like you are somehow
giving yourself away - but really you are finding yourself in doing
that. It's bold to do that, it's f**king courageous to give
yourself to someone like that."
Kristen dated Robert Pattinson after they met on the set of the
highly-popular vampire film franchise in 2008. They split in 2013,
months after the Hollywood actress' infamous fling with her Snow
White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders in the summer of
2012. Robert is now engaged to British singer FKA twigs, while
Kristen was most recently linked to French musician and actress
Soko.