Kristen Stewart: Sundance Portraits

Dakota Fanning, Floria Sigismondi and Kristen Stewart.Dakota Fanning, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart and Cherie Currie.
Joan Jett with Kristen Stewart.Dakota Fanning.

'Welcome to the Rileys' stars Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo, plus director Jake Scott hit the red carpet at the Sundance Film Festival Source: www.hitfix.com

James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart - Behind the scenes.

"Welcome to the Rileys was a real pain for Kristen Stewart—literally. In the much buzzed about indie flick, she plays a 16-year-old stripper who is taken in by a married man, played by James Gandolfini..."I did some pole dancing," Stewart told me Saturday at the movie's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked."
Oddly enough, she kinda enjoyed it. "The more I saw it, the more I wanted it," Stewart said. "It was like a weird self-hating kind of thing."
Director Jake Scott said it was pretty much a closed set when Stewart had to do her dancing scenes."She was terrified," Scott said. "The strip club we shot in was really a club, and it really was that dirty and really that tough. But she killed it." Source: www.eonline.com

Listen to Melissa Leo talking about Kristen's acting in "Welcome to the Rileys"