Installment #who's counting of the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2, hits theaters tomorrow, and I can proudly say, with some degree of certainty, that I’ve successfully stayed out of the Twilight fray having seen maybe 14 of the entire 4,200 total minutes of Kristen Stewart biting her lip over Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner (well, their characters. I do realize they aren’t real but I can’t be bothered to memorize their character names).
Recently, I confessed to “not minding,” or rather, “kind of liking,” Kristen Stewart for reasons I couldn’t exactly articulate. I mean, she’s no thespian of the Emily Blunt sort, her hotness does not affect me in the way a Penelope Cruz type does and she doesn’t exactly come off as the life of the party like a Mila Kunis – or does she? I just can’t tell what I think about Kristen Stewart except that I kind of like / don’t mind her, and when pushed to come up with why I kind of like / don't mind her I came up with a few reasons.
Reason #5
Sorry Charlize devotees – of which I am often one – but Kristen Stewart was actually the best part of that Snow White and the Huntsman mess. Sure, Charlize Theron was deliciously over the top but it was like she was a different movie altogether. She stood out – not in a good way—in a movie that was otherwise listless and drab. Plus, her accent was kind of bad. Anyway, Kristen Stewart just fit. She just worked in that overly long, monochromatic movie. Take that as you will.
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Reason #4
Long before there was beer pong at frat — or sorority — parties there was Quarters, and even though she’s a little young for the Quarters heyday, Kristen Stewart can toss a quarter and chug beer like a boy, which she recently proved on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Like that girl at a trashy wedding who can’t handle her heels after the second glass of Cold Duck, Kristen Stewart is also not afraid to go shoeless at a party.
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Reason #3
As a child actor Kristen Stewart held her own with Jodie Foster, playing Jodie’s diabetic daughter trapped with her mom in a 6’ by 4.5’ foot space for hours in David Fincher’s claustrophobic thriller Panic Room. Not only did Kristen Stewart prove that she’d be a pretty good ass kicker when she grew up, she also adopted Jodie’s butch trucker voice, and that is not a bad thing.
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Reason #2
Decked out in a shaggy mullet and leather pants, Kristen Stewart did justice to rock legend Joan Jett in The Runaways. She also proved she could hold her own against a Fanning — Dakota, that is. A veritable box office flop, the indie flick about the first girls to really rock without the help of a dude somewhere in the band, was actually a damned good little movie, and Kristen Stewart was good in it. Plus, she demonstrated she didn’t mind going Sapphic — for the screen — as her Joan Jett hooked up with Fanning’s Cherie Curie.
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Reason #1
Because Kristen Stewart acts like she could give a fuck!
She's a pouter, a lip biter and a mumbler and she's pretty when she's doing it. She’s a superstar who has no qualms about turning up to a premiere looking like an alabaster Cher in a pantsuit circa the Moonstruck era.
And, she doesn't mind virtually flashing her ass cheeks on the red carpet, and that’s in spite of the scandal in which she allegedly turned her boyfriend, Twilight golden boy Robert Pattinson, into a cuckold when she hooked up with some director whose name I have not bothered to learn. Kudos to Kristen Stewart for acting like she doesn't give a fuck and baring her butt cheeks in the face of hardship.
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