"I have a clean horizon, and I can't wait to get excited about the next project."
Stewart, who turned 20 in April, says that eventually she'd like to get behind the camera, too. "I have ideas all the time, but I'm waiting. . . . I love movies, and I want to make them one day, write them, whatever. But I choose work pretty impulsively, so right now I'm just waiting to read something that moves me."
Since the interview, Stewart has signed on to play Dean Moriarty's wife, Mary Lou, in Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic On the Road. It's set to start shooting in August, with Garrett Hedlund as Moriarty. Then in October, Stewart switches back into Bella Swan mode for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
And yes, she has read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - and read those conjectural (short) lists that have her name on it to play the book's heroine, Lisbeth Salander, in David Fincher's planned Hollywood adaptation.
"Oh man, it's a great book," she says, "but I have no idea, no, nothing has happened as far as that's concerned. Nothing."
In Cyrus, John C. Reilly stars as a lonesome loser who meets a woman he really likes (Marisa Tomei) and who, to his great surprise, seems to really like him. Unfortunately, her 21-year-old live-at-home son (Jonah Hill), doesn't like Reilly's character. Not at all.
The discomfiting comedy by Jay and Mark Duplass was shot on digital. With no film magazines to change, the takes could go on and on, a process that allows, in theory, for more improvisation. The Duplass Brothers encouraged Reilly, Tomei and Hill to venture off-script and see where things went. But Reilly says that sometimes those takes felt truly endless, and awkward.
