‘I’m not going to kill you’, says Kristen Stewart as I get into her car and she puts her foot down on the gas. ‘Let’s just go for a drive.’ We speed down one of Los Angeles’s lengthy highways, Kristen’s elfin figure fitting with the proportions of her car, a Mini, perfectly. In a slightly grotty hoodie, skinny jeans and a pair od old sneakers, greasy hair flopping around her tiny features, she could be any other 20-year-old, but she’s not.
You will know Kristen Stewart from the Twilight saga. Stephenie Meyer’s novels and the subsequent films, of which are now on the third, are the success story of the past two years; Twilight mania has taken over the world. Figurines, pencil cases, duvet covers and socks bear Kristen’s image, or rather that of her alter ego Bella Swan, a somewhat unremarkable, moody teenager who lives in the tiny, perennially overcast town of Forks, Washington. More remarkable is that Bella is in love with the deliciously handsome Edward Cullen, a 104-year-old vampire stuck in the body of a teenager and played by the also deliciously handsome Robert Pattinson.
So famous have these two young actors become, that their names have been amended for media purposes - to K-Stew and R-Pattz - and their combined ability to shft gossip magazine prompted American titles to find any reason possible to put the two on their covers last year. A strategy made easier by the ‘are-they-aren’t-they’ dating riddle, more on which later.
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