‘Spencer’ Star Kristen Stewart Says Princess Diana Was Mister Rogers-Level Earnest

Spencer” has received rave reviews out of the Venice and Telluride film festivals, and now star Kristen Stewart is opening up a bit more about her process in bringing such an icon as Princess Diana to the big screen.

In a noon seminar held on September 6 at Telluride’s Town Park, Stewart spoke about some of the challenges she faced making the Pablo Larrain film.“It’s weird to traipse across delicate stuff like that,” she said of its real-life background.

“We all know there are people still alive that are incredibly enmeshed in this and intimately related to this story.

I could never become a completely different person.

I think that she was somebody who just felt so explosively alive that, in order to do her justice, I had to become so explosively alive that I had to be a larger part of myself in order to remain impulsive and truly present.

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