After her breakthrough as Bella Swan in the Twilight film series, Kristen Stewart has become a familiar figure in Hollywood, thanks to her role as Charlie’s Angels.
The most memorable moments from Kristen Stewart’s work in Twilight, from “agony” to “honest” lesbian romps in the sex scene
At the tender age of 12, Kristen Stewart made her film debut in Panic Room (2002), costarring with Jodie Foster.
Yet, since gaining the public’s attention as Bella Swan in The Twilight Trilogy starring Robert Pattinson, she has completely matured in the public eye, shifting to risqué roles.
Kristen is currently engaged to her fiancé Dylan Meyer, an actor and writer who she dated briefly while filming the popular teen series.
Because of the breakup between her and Rob, recording the sex scenes for Breaking Dawn was a “agonizing” experience.
- “Painful” sex scene in “Twilight”
While filming Breaking Dawn Part 1, in which vampire Edward finally takes human Bella’s virginity, Kristen was still dating her co-star Robert Pattinson.
Although they are romantically involved in real life, filming this scene was “agonizing.”
For Harper’s Bazaar, Kristen revealed, “On Twilight we had to do the most epic sex scene of all time.”
“It had to be transcendent and otherworldly, inhuman, better sex than you can possibly ever imagine.”
“And we were like, ‘How do we live up to that?’ It was agony. Which sucks, because I wanted it to be so good.”
Kristen has stated that “contrived” sex scenes are “grotesquely uncomfortable.”
The sex in Breaking Dawn Part 2 was “wilder than ever.” The sex is a lot wilder and more intense” Robert told The Sun.
“It’s awkward doing close-ups in front of a big crew with the camera operator in your face and you’re supposed to show ultimate ecstasy.
“Kristen and I would start to laugh and the cameraman was laughing too,” he said.
A make-out session during an audition for the first Twilight film got so intense that Robert literally fell off the bed, a nice nod to the final romantic fate of their characters.
In 2007, director Catherine Hardwick revealed on The Big Hit Show podcast that “Rob and Kristen completed the audition right here on the bed” at her home.
“They did the kissing scene and he fell off and landed right there on this floor. Rob and Kristen auditioned on my bed—the kissing scene.
“Rob was so into it he fell off the bed. I’m like, ‘Dude, calm down.’ And I’m in there filming with my little video camera.”
- “Honest” lesbian romp
Kristen starred as serial killer Lizzie Borden in a movie that came out in 2018.
Like any good period piece, there were plenty of steamy scenes for Kristen to act out as Lizzie’s girlfriend Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan.
During the actual sexual act, both women remained dressed, however there is some nudity later on.
And Kristen said of the scenes to Entertainment Weekly: “We were never like, ‘Okay, then your corset bursts open!’ Of course it doesn’t burst open! It takes, like, 10 minutes to take off, so if we’re going to f**k, we’re going to do it with our clothes on!”
“That intimacy level, that sort of hushed, quiet, whispered exchange they have, it was present and honest.”
“We realised what’s sexy is the immediacy of not taking our clothes off ” she continued.
- “She was frightened”
In 2012, Kristen featured as Marylou in On the Road, one of her hottest film roles to date.
Even Kristen, who was 22 at the time, was taken aback by her strange new behavior.
“Obviously everyone who does scenes like that the first thing you say is, ‘Oh, I felt so safe,’ she remarked.
“But I love pushing, I love scaring myself and I think to watch genuine experience on screen is so much more interesting. I wanted to do it.”
Kristen’s character regularly changes sexual partners, strips down to her underwear, smokes weed, and consumes large amounts of alcohol over the course of the film.
- Hand-in-mouth improv
Kristen was “very f***ing proud” of an improvised moment she and Viggo Mortensen did together while filming the dystopian epic Crimes of the Future.
Kristen’s character tried to seduce Viggo Mortensen’s by placing her hands inside his lips.
According to the script, “at some point I find myself entwined with him and I stick my tongue down his throat” she added.
But she said, “I want to get as close as I can to possibly feel something – if I can’t actually do it, maybe I can unhinge his jaw and get as deeply inside his head as I possibly can and examine the actual anatomy of his mouth.”
“So I massaged his jaw for a second to get it to open and then I went all the way in.”
The racy movie also featured a passionate sex scene between Steve Buscemi’s character and Garrett Hedlund.
After filming the scene, Garrett offered his co-star a smoke, but he strangely declined.
“I asked him if he wanted to have a cigarette. And he said no! He had always asked me for cigarettes before, ‘Hey, man, can I bum one of those?’, and after the scene, I was like, ‘Hey, you wanna have a cigarette?’ And he said, ’Uh, I’m good.’” he said.