Kristen Stewart says she takes on roles that she feels 'personally drawn' to.

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Stewart is set to return to the big screen as she teams up with Julianne Moore for the first time in Still Alice. The movie will see Moore and Stewart play mother and daughter in a movie that sees the former struggling with early onset Alzheimer's.

Stewart has revealed that so far she has chosen characters that she was drawn to and has never tackled a character that she didn't fully understand.

Speaking to Collider, the actress said: "Most of the work that I've done, I've been so personally drawn to that I felt that was the most honest way to do it, not only for the good of the project, but for the reason that I am an actor. I have very rarely stepped outside of myself to play a character that I couldn't fully understand. I don't know if I'll ever do that. Maybe one day. I don't know.

"There isn't a specific through-line for the characters that I gravitate towards. I think that you see me in them because I can't hide that and I'm not trying to. I've played a few characters that have been based on real people, and those have been the times that I feel stretched the furthest.

"But even then, I think the reason I was drawn to those characters was because I felt an unbelievable amount of myself in them, and undiscovered aspects of myself in them, which is more important."

Still Alice sees Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland in the director's chair and is an adaptation of the novel by Lisa Genova. Stewart and Moore are joined on the cast list by Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish, and Shane McRae.

As for Stewart, we are going to be seeing her back on the big screen with Clouds of Sils Maria and she has also completed work on Anesthesia, Equals, and American Ultra.

Still Alice is released 6th March.


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