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Kristen Stewart is back from the undead

Twilight is behind her and now she is a European arthouse darling and a hit on Saturday Night Live, says Jonathan Dean
‘She feels completely alone’: Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper
‘She feels completely alone’: Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper
CAROLE BETHUEL

‘Kristen Stewart is perhaps the best film actress under 30.” I wrote that last year, after an interview with her Twilight co-star and former boyfriend, Robert Pattinson — and this year, I am totally convinced I am right. But it turns out the vampire saga’s fans remain faithful, and some devotees of Pattinson, after the couple’s split, aren’t exactly fond of his ex. My social-media mentions were full of fury for a month. “Because they disagreed with you?” Stewart laughs, when I tell her all this. “Because they were, like, ‘F*** her?’” Exactly.

If you have only seen the actress mope adolescently through the Twilight saga, you may think the above claim quite mad. Move on to her most recent work, though, and you will