New York Strip Clubs: Edition 2, Thursday 26th November
Hollywood does get her and doesn’t bother that Stewart’s awards to date have been voted for by Twilight-obsessed teens and tweens. Variety’s review of Adventureland mused “Stewart impresses again” while revered American film critic Roger Ebert noted with a certain gravitas: “Here is an actress ready to do important things.”
Certainly Stewart likes the choices afforded her by Twilight and is too smart to complain about any downside.
“It’s easier now to do things I really like, like an independent movie that nobody sees. Now it’ll be: ‘Oh, let’s go see Bella in this stripper movie!’ It’ll be crazy.” She laughs like she’s loving it. The “stripper movie” in question – Welcome to the Rileys, starring The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini – is one she terms the “most fruitful life-changing movie experience I’ve ever had. It was the hardest subject-matter. I play a very broken young girl working in a strip club.”