Fame Sucks, Kristen Stewart Edition
Twilight/Snow White and the Huntsman star Kristen Stewart comes off as admirably self-possessed ("I don’t care about the voracious, starving shit eaters who want to turn truth into shit") in Vanity Fair, even when bemoaning the photograph that changed her life: “You can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is images of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe with my ex-boyfriend and my dog. It was [taken] the day the movie came out. I was no one. I was a kid. I had just turned 18. In [the tabloids] the next day it was like I was a delinquent slimy idiot, whereas I’m kind of a weirdo, creative Valley Girl who smokes pot. Big deal. But that changed my daily life instantly. I didn’t go out in my underwear anymore.” [Vanity Fair]
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Oh stop trying to kid yourself, Kristen, you had been in show biz for years when that picture was taken. Good for you for not caring about the haters, but don't pretend that you had no idea about that part of the business. Did no one mention to you that Twilight might make you a bit of a paparazzi target? No? Then you need better managers.
It's amazing how some of these celebs are still so ignorant about the price of fame.
I'm so glad I'm not famous so I can still go out in my underwear. What?
The context of the quote is that she is describing how her life changed overnight from being relatively unknown (even though she had made a couple movies) to being a target for the paparazzi right after Twilight came out, and it caught her unaware. It's misleading to characterize that in your headline as talking about how "fame sucks." To the commenters, I don't think it was ignorant for an 18-year-old not to have known what a huge hit Twilight was going to be and thus have not carefully considered all the implications of fame. The movie studio certainly didn't know it. How would she?
Of course the movie studio knew they would sell a lot of tickets. By the time that first film came out, the first three books in the Twilight series had spent a combined 143 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, with millions of copies sold worldwide (Breaking Dawn sold over 1.3 million copies on the first day it was released, the same year as the first film opened). That's kind of a good clue that there is a strong public desire for the story.
And she wasn't a typical 18-year-old. Born and raised in LA, Kristen Stewart was not a newcomer to showbiz, having appeared in several studio films prior to Twilight, such as playing Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room. She'd even been nominated for awards already. She'd done tons of press prior to Twilight's opening. Both her parents are in the business. Even my dead dog knew that Twilight would be a big box office draw, for God's sake.
Look, I'm not hating on her, I just don't buy her shock that she couldn't get high in public in her underwear after the film opened. I'm actually giving her more credit for being smarter than that. Maybe that's my mistake.