There's an Entertainment Weekly story that made it sound like Rob Pattinson was obsessing about the role and that it fell to you and some other people to talk him down from the clock tower a few times. Is that true?
Kristen Stewart: "Yeah, which was perfect the part. I mean, that's why he had to be in it. Especially when you're on location, you're secluded and in this place and we had this big huge cast and they're all actors. They're not just like, 'Oh, we're making this movie.' So even when we went back home at the end of the day, whenever we would hangout it would pretty much revolve around the movie. So we all had that in us, but Rob really sometimes got… We wouldn't be able to shoot a scene. It was like, 'We're not going to be able to get anything in the can if you don't just calm down.' So, yeah, there were times where I had to like sort of do that. And he hated me too when I did that. The problem was that any time you'd say, 'No, you're really good.' 'No! You think that I need that?!' It's like, 'No. I'm just actually being genuinely honest because I really like what's going on here.' I think it had a lot to do with the part that he was playing."
How is that different for you as an actress? Can you turn it on and off easily?
Kristen Stewart: "It's so dependent on so many things. It changes. I just did this movie Welcome to the Rileys, the movie where I play the street kid, there's this weight. I mean, it's easy to lie. If you're not doing that, then this job is really wearing. There are times when you have to step away and start laughing or else halfway through a 16 hour day you'll literally collapse. Sometimes you can't and sometimes you can sort of do that."
Are you involved in the tour of Hot Topics?
Kristen Stewart: "I think I'm going to two Hot Topics next week."
Are you prepared for that because it seems that the fans are very passionate?
Kristen Stewart: "Yeah, that's a good [word]. That's polite. We did a book signing in Rome that while we were leaving the building I couldn't get to the car. It was actually scary. I was being dragged by security. I wasn't even on my own feet. I was thrown into a van because if they hadn't done it I would've gotten…I was literally picked up and thrown into a van and then it shut and then the van just started shaking. It has nothing to do with you. It's a really surreal experience because you're like, 'God. What?' It's fine. I think based on that experience there's like an underground entrance that we've all been told about. There's heightened security. We're going to be very guarded. I'm not going anywhere unless they've got 15 big guys around me." [laughing]
Some actors have worn costumes at Comic Con and walked around, blending right in.
Kristen Stewart: "I know. I've wanted to do that."
Maybe you could do that for your escape.
Kristen Stewart: "Yeah, who knows? I don't know. They have those sweatshirts, probably at Hot Topic too, that zip all the way over your head and you're like skulls, skeleton bodies. That would be funny. I'd like to do that."
Are you able to go incognito in public?
Kristen Stewart: "Yes. I don't know if it's because this is my first incredibly high profile movie or not, but like Rob gets recognized sort of everywhere he goes and I don't."
It's the hair.
Kristen Stewart: "It's the hair. Totally. He's tall. He stands out."
Are you getting sick of yourself with these banners around the town for Twilight? Or are you enjoying it all?
Kristen Stewart: "I'm so glad that I like this movie. I'm so glad that I'm proud of this movie and that I stand in it and that I wasn't trampled by the machine that could've taken over. In that case I would be hiding under this table and this interview would've gone terribly. But I'm excited because I'm proud of the movie. It's not why I started doing this though. I don't look at magazines and say, 'Oh, she's so cute. I wish I could do that.' I don't put too much stock in it. It doesn't impress me at all. If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face 50 feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that."
Was there a scene in this film that was deleted that you were sad to see go?
Kristen Stewart: "I've seen the movie once and nothing stuck out. Well, yeah, one thing stuck out but it was improvisational and maybe really didn't fit in. It was a scene where we're just walking and talking and doing nothing. I think that they thought it was outside of our characters, which I completely and entirely disagree with, but I'm sad to see that go. Some of the lines in the movie are improvised which I thought were all going to be cut because they would say, 'Okay, we're just going to roll MOS and so just ramble off and we're not going to use any of it.' But they actually rolled and some of it is in the movie and that I'm really excited to see."
Like what specifically?
Kristen Stewart: 'The one thing was, and this was a tough day too, when we were in the tree and he takes me up and is showing me the most beautiful view, his favorite view. It sounds so stupid to quote myself in the movie, but I remember the lines. I'm not going to pretend like I don't remember the lines. I say, 'This kind of stuff doesn't exist.' Then he's like, 'It does in my world.' That's all Rob."
They used that a lot. It's in the trailer too.
Kristen Stewart: "I know. It's weird."
