1:25 pm - 08/02/2012
Kristen Stewart may have become tabloid fodder in recent days, but the 22-year-old seems decidedly committed to being taken seriously as an actress: Vulture hears exclusively that Stewart has landed the lead role in an indie adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel, Lie Down In Darkness.
Kristen Stewart lands lead in Lie Down in Darkness
Kristen Stewart may have become tabloid fodder in recent days, but the 22-year-old seems decidedly committed to being taken seriously as an actress: Vulture hears exclusively that Stewart has landed the lead role in an indie adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel, Lie Down In Darkness.
Directed by Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper and set in genteel fifties Virginia, Lie Down will have Stewart play Peyton Loftis. As part of a dysfunctional and disintegrating family, Peyton is constantly compared to her crippled sister, Maudie, and her intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust. (Stewart will also appear in another fifties-era set film, Walter Salles's On the Road, when it's released in the U.S. sometime this fall/winter.)
The part of Peyton had been coveted by Jennifer Lawrence, but Lawrence will spend the better part of the next year shooting sequels. (Catching Fire ignites this fall, while a new X-Men film at Fox commences shooting in January.) Set up at Open Road Films, Darkness has been in development for years by producer Jeff Sharp (You Can Count on Me, Proof) and while it’s unclear how soon it might start production, this is a major casting hurdle cleared.
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There's nothing 'intense' about her, much less her ~beauty~.
o_O
Edited at 2012-08-02 05:49 pm (UTC)
And this is an indie so it's nbd if studios don't want to put her in another franchise again, she has enough money not to need the $$$$ now and she should be fine.
This sounds stupid. INTENSE PHYSICAL BEAUTY?
It sounds interesting to me, but it's got to be handled delicately. DDL, Paul Dano and Camilla Belle were in a similar flick that was panned to high heaven
PLEASE go ahead with SWATH 2 and have it interfere with filming on this.
But she's a very, very, very bad actress.
I feel like Jen should do a great, well-written mainstream comedy.
I mean okay she's pretty but come on. Not intensely.
lol
she got a role that she wanted really bad, she's been rewarded for what she's done haha
lol the jokes just write themselves