The really strange thing about Kristen Stewart [AFAICS] is that her audience - whether haters or lovers - is, apparently, predominantly female.
I don't know if this has happened before, that the female demographic has asserted its financial power in this way. Twiglet was an almost entirely female-driven franchise, predicated on the quite understandable desire to know, even vicariously, an unconditional and eternal [if not actually very healthy] love - shades of LTROI, my God
- and hey! it made BIG bucks; $2.5+ billions so far, in fact.
That's heavy money, and heavy money involves heavy people; Hollywood power brokers and gangsters and God knows who-all else. I ask the Creator that KS stays safe in all this, and comes through it all owning both her career and herself, free from the PR head-trips that seem to have dogged and entangled her ever since The Franchise began, and free to make the films that she wants to make; films that will give people nourishment that is, perhaps, rather healthier than Twiglet.
She's currently working on a European film with Juliette Binoche and Chloe Moretz, which seems like a really good idea, getting the fuck out of Hollywood altogether and using a different film-making process; but at some point she's going to have to go back home to La-La land and deal with it all, straighten out the distorted, PR-driven perceptions of her that have made so much money for The Franchise, tabloids/webloids and papparazzi.
Or is she? I actually have no idea. All I know is I like the kid, she gets to me almost as much as l'Acquart, and I wish her well.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" - Voltaire