Thanks to the recent news of Kristen Stewart playing Princess Diana in the upcoming royal film, Spencer , everyone is talking about her.
But when it comes to this actress, how much we do really know about her?
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There’s the obvious, like her past in Twilight , but did you know that she actually started acting as a child? Or that she once gave Josh Hutcherson a turtle?
This, plus more, in these 10+ facts about Kristen Stewart that fans didn’t know…
1. Her love of acting comes from her parents who have always worked in the entertainment industry:
Her mother is a script supervisor and her dad is a stage manager.
She called them “hardworking crew members” to E! in 2014.
Growing up, though, she initially wanted to be a camera grip like her brothers.
That all changed when she landed her first role in The Safety of Objects .
“That was the day my dream of being a grip or a script supervisor shattered, and my life opened beyond my wildest dreams.”
2. She famously cheated on Robert Pattinson:
Kristen found herself at the center of a scandal when she was photographed kissing her Snow White and the Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders.
Unfortunately, this happened while she was still dating Rob and also while Rupert was married…
Years later, she finally opened up about the horrible slut-shaming she received as a result.
“We lived in a different time then, you know what I mean?” she said on The Howard Stern Show .
“I feel like the slut-shaming that went down was so absurd.”
3. She had to wear colored contacts in *Twilight*:
She has gorgeous green eyes, but she had to cover them up with brown to match the description of Bella Swan.
Then, in the franchise’s final film, she traded these for amber-colored to make her look like a vampire.
The experience is one that she’d rather soon forget.
“That is one thing I can’t wait to say goodbye to is the contacts,” she told MTV .
“They just kill you. [They give you] dead face,” she told the publication in 2011.”
4. She was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood in 2012:
According to Forbes’ list of the highest-paid actresses, she nabbed their top spot with an income of $34.5 million from May 2011 to May 2012.
Not too shabby. And she did this at just 22 years old!
5. She’s proud of her work on *Twilight*:
While her acting in the vampire movies is still made fun of to this day, Kristen begs to differ.
“Anybody who wants to talk [expletive] about Twilight, I completely get it, but there’s something there that I’m endlessly, and to this day, [expletive] proud of. My memory of it felt—still feels—really good,” she said .
6. She also shared her distaste for those who say she’s not a “serious actor.”
“Say I do a big franchise movie about a vampire that falls in love with a normal girl. It’s like, ‘Now do you want to show them that you can be a real, serious actor?’ It’s like, ‘Was I not being a real, serious actor?'”
7. She has a soundproof room in her California home:
This is all part of her passion for music. In addition to singing and playing guitar, she also plays drums!
“I have one room that’s soundproofed so I can play drums really loud,” she told Elle UK magazine in 2016
8. She’s the only American actress to win a Cesar award:
In case you didn’t know, this is basically the French equivalent of an Oscar.
She nabbed the nomination of Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria . Take that, haters!
9. She replaced Hayden Panettiere in *Panic Room*:
After both Nicole Kidman and Hayden Panettiere stepped down from the David Fincher movie, both Jodie Foster and Kristen stepped up .
It’s a good thing Kristen did since Fincher later said that he found Hayden “irritating.”
10. Her dream used to be to become the youngest director:
While she grew up as a child actor, she always had her sights set on something bigger.
“I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process,” she told Interview Magazine .
“At that point I just really wanted to be on sets, going to a thousand different places, and work as hard as my parents work. Both my parents work in film. They’re crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved.”
She continued:
“I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films. I used to say that I always wanted to be the youngest director. But now I’m like, ‘No, I’m going to wait until I’m properly ready to do that.'”
11. She once gave Josh Hutcherson a turtle for his 12th birthday:
This happened in 2005 while the two were filming Zathura .
“Kristen came, she kind of walks up to me and she has her hands behind her back,” he recalled on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
Since he had a crush on her back then, he wondered if he was going to get kissed.
“She brings her hands out and she’s got a turtle. She’s like, ‘Yeah, they live to be 85. He’s less than 1.’”
Sadly, the turtle didn’t make it to 85. He died when his friend forgot to look after it while he was out of town.
12. She once became a stripper to prepare for a role:
When it comes to preparing for a role, Kristen takes things very seriously.
To prepare for her role as a young stripper in Welcome to the Riley’s , she would spend her nights at a strip club in New Orleans called Dixie Dives.
First, she would just watch. But eventually, she got up there herself, she told *Entertainment Weekly*.
“I danced on the bar there three nights this week, and my legs are covered in bruises,” she said .
Talk about dedication!
13. She’s an award-winning kisser:
People may have bashed Twilight , but no one could deny the chemistry she and Robert Pattinson had both on and off the screen.
They won the “Best Kiss” award from MTV four years in a row!
