Is Kristen Stewart Too Plain?
October 30, 2009 by The Snarkstress
Filed under Actresses
I am really stumped on Twilight’s leading lady Kristen Stewart. If you love the Twilight saga then you are supposed to love Kristen Stewart, aka Bella…but for some reason I just can’t decide how I feel about her.
On one hand, she’s super awkward, quirky, and unaffected by Hollywood glam…which is kind of endearing. But on the other hand, we are supposed to buy that both vampire and werewolf hotties are fighting over her AND that she’s dating real-life hottie Robert Pattison in real life…which kind of makes me want more from her. Doesn’t she seem a little too plain for that? Shouldn’t she be the most beautiful teenage girl I’ve ever seen?? Or is it great that she wears hoodies and untied Vans and looks like a regular girl with a bad haircut walking down the street??
Here she is returning home to LA after spending months in Vancouver, BC filming the rest of the Twilight movies. Her hair looks dreadful and she seems to have no thoughts about fashion whatsoever (clearly she doesn’t plan her outfits!!)…but is that what we like about her???
Still undecided. But leaning towards underwhelmed. Show me that you’re beautiful!
Image: INF
Bella of the Twilight books is supposed to be plain. In the books they make a point of mentioning over and over how Edward is so beautiful and she wonders why he is attracted to her. He’s drawn to her scent. Jake, I think that’s because he knew her when he was young, their dads are friends, she’s fragile and clumsy and different from other girls. And yes, it is very embarrassing that I know as much about this as I do.
Kristin Stewart as herself, not Bella, I think she is appealing because she does not look like everyone else. My impression is that she’s an actor who has little or no interest in being a “celebrity.”
Hm. Plain? The first time I saw her was “Panic Room” with Jodie Foster. Remember Foster’s “plain” (trans: lesbian) teen years )think “Candleshoe”)? I got the same lesbian vibe from Stewart in “Panic Room,” which makes “plain” an adjective I never would’ve chosen to describe this girl.