
"We wanted it to be not so polished," the actress
told Vanity Fair magazine, which features the "Snow White & The
Huntsman" star on its current cover, when "Twilight" was brought
up. "Catherine [Hardwicke, the first film's director], was all for that.
But we were getting notes from the studio. They wanted me to smile all the
time. They wanted Rob to be not so brooding. We were like, 'No! You need to
brood you're a** off.”
It is Kristen, though, who tabloid magazines like to suggest
is brooding in real life, something Robert said isn't her fault.
"No matter how many times she smiles, they'll put in
the one picture where she's not smiling," he told the magazine, as part of
Vanity Fair's feature on the actress.!
Kristen gets it though, but being authentic to herself is
what she finds most important.
"I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect
in every photograph," she told VF. "I get some serious s*** about it.
I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all
the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would
think, What an actress! What a faker! That thought embarrasses me so much that
I look like s*** in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me
is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good
time. She was honest.' I don't care about the voracious, starving s*** eaters
who want to turn truth into s***. Not that you can say that in Vanity
Fair!"