Twilight's Kristen Stewart Is Joan Jett

kristen stewart is a good looking girl with some talent. she should in no way be playing joan jett, at all. wait, let me say it again....AT ALL. if joan jett was dead, she would be rolling in her grave. why not cast beyonce to play etta james?

just because she can act a little bit, doesnt mean she is a good rock star. todays actors are not the actors of yesterday. they lack depth, natural ability and talent.

the earliest movie i saw stewart in was some rock climbing movie. if you like b movies, look it up. her acting hasnt come that far since then. in zathura she was frozen most of the time, no real talent in having a stand in for the better part of the movie.

in jumper, she had half a sentence and looked like a coke whore who hadnt slept in a few weeks. her facial expressions were weak at best. they didnt match the scene she was playing, the serial killer, eye glaring stare should have been saved. it made the scene confusing to a lot of people. it looked like there should have been more to that part of the story.

i cant bring myself to go see twilight. i have seen that movie a half a dozen times since 1990. it just had different titles throughout.

she is an average actress cast in a big role. the movie would have banked no matter who was cast in that roll, camilla bell, megan fox etc.

actually i would have seen the movie if camilla bell was in it, i tend to like her more.

joan jett should be played by someone who hasnt made a name yet. it would make a better movie that way.

now im wondering who they are going to get to play lita ford? maybe they can totally destroy the movie by casting lindsey lohan?

i think that kristen stewart is an amazing actress for her age. she potrays great emotion with intensity. so many directors and other actors (who are professionals in this business) have said things similar to this. if you don't particularly enjoy her acting style - cool for you. but no decent person would go round bagging her out and basically saying she'll suck before she gets a chance.
i hope that she rocks this movie just so this writer can realise what a big head he has. you writing an article just about how your right is just embaressing.

kristen stewart is more than a pretty face and has great talent.
if you fail to see that, then that's your own problem!
as you said yourself, you get things wrong, well same thing
buddy with this harsh presumtion.

No wonder you are wrong most of the time. It's been a long time since I've seen a young actor that just has that something special like Kristen Stewart. I guess Sean Penn was wrong when he called her up for ITW. Seriously, the young girl is just on the brink, and it doesn't have anything to do with Twilight. That just fast forwarded her bankability. Unfortunately bankability doesn't always have anything to do with true natural talent, which the girl has in spades! TPTB saw that before Twilight. She has even been very smart about the roles she has taken on for someone so young. When my husband and I found out she was doing Jett, our immediate reaction was my god that makes sense! Don't worry about Kristen in this role. She will knock your socks off and then you can keep your always wrong trend stable.

Gabby, you are exactly right about that scene in Twilight. Was she trying to say "I'm afraid of losing you" or "the weather is nice today"? You wouldn't be able to tell by her acting. She's completely monotone and emotionless in everything she does. She's incapable of playing anyone other than herself, a fact that she readily admits in interviews. All of her characters are similar, whether the script calls for it or not, because she plays them all the same way. Joan Jett is just going to be Bella Swan with a guitar. And Bella Swan was no more than Kristen Stewart with brown contact lenses.

I hate how people think this role should have gone to a more developed actress or whatever. Those actresses were all mediocre until they got roles that helped them demonstrate their talent to a full extent, Kristen Stewart deserves that opportunity too with this one.

I don't get your people. Kristen Stewart is a great actress. Check her out in Into the Wild - just the perfect combination of innocence and vulnerability. Even in Twilight, she does doubt, fear, head over heals love, anger, joy, lust..... fight scenes, sex scenes.. you name it - she does it. And really well.

I don't think she's monotone. I prefer her subtle style of delivery. It's refreshing and believable.

So true. Not everything has to be overdone and overworked.
She acts like a normal person would! and cuts pass all the annyoing exaggerated crap.

And her performance in Into the Wild was indeed stunning.
Anyone that says she did a bad/ok/mild/boring etc job is just
a straight out liar...or just very ignorant.

I haven't seen Twilight yet, but I have seen her in Zathura and that tiny role in Jumper, and honestly...I can't stand her. She was horribly annoying in Zathura, and what was with that evil suspicous look she was giving Christenson's character in Jumper? I think her performances are either too typical teenager or blahzay. Sorry, I don't see her being even close to Oscar status yet. Not close at all.

Stephanie: "that evild suspicous look she was giving to Christenson's character in Jumper"

that was because Kristen was playing the daughter of Christenson's mother. they are half siblings and dont even
know it. if some random guy with a big coat turned up at your
door im pretty sure you'd be like "hm, who is this?"

Ok, I'm not trying to be mean here, but why does everyone keep saying that Kristen Stewart is even a halfways decent actress? In every single movie I've ever seen, she's either overacted or had absolutely no emotion in her voice (See: Twilight in the scene where she says she'd rather die than stay away from Edward...can anyone say monotone? Not exactly a declaration of love like it was supposed to be.). I wish that I could see how she was a decent actress, but honestly everything I've seen her in is terrible. If she would just put some emotion in her acting, the roles she plays would be ten times better.

I can't help but wonder how people who're so superficial in their thinking and knowledge of the work of certain actors get to write movie reviews and comment on industry news. Saw "Zathura" and predicted... Get out of here man - you're an embarrassment!

to Charlie M.
I so second that!

I agree with the reviewer. Joan Jett deserves someone who can really play her. Kristen Stewart isn't capable yet. Maybe in a few eyars after she gains for experience. It's too bad that this happens with too many important roles. Another example is casting Beyonce in teh role of Etta James in the movie Cadillac Records. She doesn't have even one-tenth of the talent that Etta James had. They just want to put prety faces into these roles, despite whether the actor/actress has talent. I don't think Kristen Stewart is ready yet.

Charlie M, the fact that you call her "KStew" gives away your status as a Twilight fangirl, way to invalidate your opinion. Besides, none of what you say precludes her from being a bad actress, which she is. Not all indie actors have talent, and Stewart is a prime example of that. I agree with you, Josh, she is mediocre at best and anyone treating her like she's capable of heavy acting is delusional. I don't know much about Joan Jett but I hope she had a nervous, twitchy, stuttering sort of demeanor and lacked any depth of emotion, since that is all Stewart is capable of potraying.

You may have predicted one right but you won't make it back-to-back for sure. KStew and Jessica Alba are so far apart in their career paths you're not even allowed to mention them in the same universe! Have you seen her in interviews? She's probably the least commercial of all the young actors out there while Alba has commercial tattooed on her chest. Her untrained natural acting style might not be universally appreciated but give her a few years and she might come within reach of an Oscar...providing she doesn't go Michelle Rodriguez or Evan Rachel Wood on us.

I can see why it's not often that you are right about something. Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

I agree with Charlie all the way, couldnt have been said better....and I think she is perfect for the part.

Very nicely said Charlie.

You say you like her but 90% of the stuff you said about her were insulting.. I think KStew isnt just a Jessica Alba wannabe.. Jessica Alba mostly did brainless teen movies at the beginning. KStew made serious movies and some indie films even as a child and a young adult. I'm even surprised that she agreed to do Twilight considering it's the ultimate teen romance movie. KStew is edgy and not the typical hollywood party girl. I love that she's cool and not too girly, yet when she wants to look feminine and stunning she can succeed in doing that as well.