Stewart said she first read “On the Road” when she was a freshman in high school and was taken with its cast of characters, many of whom are wild creative types, searching for inspiration, love and meaning. “And I read that and I was like ‘I need to find people like that. I need to find people that I want to run after,’” she said. “I think that it’s rare, those people aren’t very common.”
The novel, Stewart said, still resonated with her as an adult. She said she was drawn to people who had a youthful exuberance, no matter how old they were.
“Most of the people that I want to run after that I really admire, they don’t lose that, I mean, they’re not all my age, they’re a lot older than me,” Stewart said. “It starts when you’re young, but as soon as you view that as like a youthful thing, what have you done with your life? Do you know what I mean? You should probably hold on to that.”
In the “Twilight” movies, Stewart has had to battle vampires, deliver the friends speech to a werewolf, and give birth to a half-vampire baby. “On the Road” features fare that’s more realistic–and mature. The new movie has scenes depicting drug use, nudity and group sex, and Stewart is in the middle of the action.
But Stewart said what concerned her most about her role as the free-spirited Marylou wasn’t the nudity, but the dance sequences. “Oh yeah, by far and away,” she says.
“[My character] doesn’t have too many opportunities to represent like that pure unadulterated exuberance,” Stewart explained. “It was so important for me to have her leap off the screen that that was the one scene that I had the chance to do that, and I was just scared of it, because I am so not that girl. She lets her face hang out, and I don’t.”
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When Speakeasy was introduced to actress Kristen Stewart last night, because of all the tabloidy attention she sometimes draws, we were worried that she’d be colder than the nor’easter that just blew through New York City. Instead we found her to be quite chatty, and happy to discuss her new movie, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” which was recently screened in Manhattan.
There were plenty of notable folks on hand for the showing, including “On the Road” director Walter Salles and co-star Garrett Hedlund, and after the movie, the stars moved over to Circo for dinner (while Hedlund lingered outside the restaurant for a smoke).
“On the Road” features some content that’s much more mature than anything you’ll find in Stewart’s supernatural “Twilight” movies. In the new film, there’s plenty of drug use, nudity, and three-way sex, and Stewart is right in the middle (literally and figuratively) of the action. There are also a few references to Nietzsche, which you don’t typically get in the “Twilight” films.
Stewart, who plays the free-spirited Marylou in “On the Road,” told Speakeasy that she read the classic book her freshman year in high school, “But I never thought I’d be in it.”
Although “On the Road” was first published in 1957, the 22-year-old Stewart says it has something to say to members of her generation. The book, an ode to youth, the open road and sexual freedom, is suffused with jazz, beat poetry and lust for life. “It still speaks to me,” she said. “It makes you want to put your sh– down and go.”
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