"Twilight" fans, be forewarned: the hair-tugging, lip-biting, shrinking violet version of Kristen Stewart who you know from the vampire saga is nowhere to be found in this month's Vogue. Instead, the actress sports blond hair and sculpted brows, looking straight at the camera with a very adult mix of vulnerability and confidence. And in her interview with the magazine, it's clear that we're getting a glimpse of what's coming for Kristen once she wraps filming on "Breaking Dawn" and leaves Bella Swan behind.
After years of playing the world's most famous vampire bride, Kristen has seen some big changes—including the total eradication of her private life, probably forever.
"There’s no way to eloquently put this," she said. "I just can’t go to the mall. It bothers me that I can’t be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that’s gone."
But in spite of her massive celebrity, she also knows she'll have to work to be taken seriously—no matter what she does next. She told the interviewer, "At this point it seems like 'We’ll see what the 'Twilight' girl did. Let’s see how she’s trying to be different."
The actress has no plans to take it easy, though: "I choose things that are so overly ambitious, and if I can’t do stuff like that, I don’t want to be doing this."
And Kristen is already doing her best to break out of the pop celebrity bubble that the "Twilight" films created; we've seen her take on the role of a teenage stripper in "Welcome to the Rileys" and a rock icon in "The Runaways," and she's currently filming a movie based on Jack Kerouac's "On The Road." Meanwhile, returning to the role of Bella now feels like a step backward—what she describes as "like going back to school."
"'Twilight' is a different beast," she explained, as is Bella, who she called "a character who is embedded in so many people’s psyches at this point." But it's also die-hard fans of Stephenie Meyer's work who she thinks of when she contemplates the end of the years-long process of bringing the books to life.
"It’s starting to enter my head a lot more than it used to because it’s at the end and it’s come such a long way," she said. "I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don’t necessarily care about anyone else."
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