This fall, the actress takes on the role of Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s daring new drama.
Kristen Stewart’s dog doesn’t care about movie stars.
“Not intrusion,” she quickly corrects herself.
Kristen Stewart on the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s November 2021 issue.Lauren Dukoff for EW
“That implies that I’ve been stolen from in this violent way.
(Stewart is a fan: “I watched it probably in one night.
I think [actress Emma Corrin] did a really beautiful job.
Kristen Stewart at EW’s November 2021 cover shoot.Lauren Dukoff for EW
I mean, not to say that my opinion matters at all!”
she adds, laughing.
“But I loved her in it, truly.")
Kristen Stewart at EW’s November 2021 cover shoot.Lauren Dukoff for EW
Only 7 when Diana died, Stewart hardly considered herself among the faithful.
I absolutely would have felt like such a coward.
Especially given that I’m such an outsider.
Kristen Stewart at EW’s November 2021 cover shoot.Lauren Dukoff for EW
I’m not from the U.K., I don’t have any particular investment in the royal family.
“You have to work with that, and you know that.
She’s already an icon, so you better start from that base.
That simple element is what I think we were attracted to.”
But if you take those elements out, it’s a little bit out of time.
The main element for that timeless feeling was Kristen.”
Even then, she says, “there are contradictory materials from the horse’s mouth.
She doesn’t always say the same thing in every interview, you know?
There was a fickle nature, obviously, to a lot of the facts.
I knew that I had hit some kind of elemental energy.
One fight Stewart wouldn’t win: using her real hair.
“And we were f—ingsprinting.
This was not padded or luxe in any way.
We were balls to the wall, gunning through it.
It felt that way to make it, too.”
“My parents worked constantly, but I never felt that they were absent.
I was not the key in for it at all.
And it was physically, viscerally painful to be criticized for not being able to dance in pigtails.”
To promoteShopperin 2017, she hostedSaturday Night Livefor the first time.
“I think sometimes you get lucky.
There are certain magic episodes,” she says, deflecting credit.
Because I think my friends think I’m funny!
I mean, I crack them up all the time.
I just got jobs that weren’t like that.”
“Artists want to engage with the world and have larger conversations.
I used to be really intentionally the opposite of precious in terms of choosing projects.
For a minute there I was like, ‘I’ll do f—ing anything!’
And honestly, it was a good place to be for a minute.
But I think now I’m going to be a little more careful.
I hope I don’t botch it, because it’s a really revolutionarily written script.")
See if it comes out.'
“The first time, I didn’t want to do it.
I’m such a control freak I was like, ‘I need to know what I’m doing.
I want to be prepared for what I’m doing!’
And I don’t mean like ghosty stuff.
I was like, ‘You were so right.
You’re so right about this.'”
Photography by Lauren Dukoff for EW.Look 1: Dorothee Schumacher beige top and trouser, Garrett Leight sunglasses.
Look 5: Fa Noel pink slip dress.
