Kristen Stewart says she is being ‘haunted’ by Princess Diana

Enjoying the late Princess Diana in a 2021 biopic had a profound affect on Twilight star Kristen Stewart.

The 35-year-old actress mentioned she is ‘nonetheless’ feeling the results of starring because the Princess of Wales in Pablo Larraín’s movie Spencer 5 years on.

She has opened up about how she felt ‘haunted’ by King Charles’ first spouse after entering into her sneakers for the historic drama – and defined she nonetheless carries this ominous feeling to today.

The display screen star mentioned it turns into significantly outstanding when she visits both the UK or the French capital, the place Diana sadly died in a deadly automotive crash in 1997 on the age of 36.

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Stewart revealed that she initially thought that the movie’s director Larraín was ‘insane’ when he first urged her taking over the hefty position, however the Chilean filmmaker managed to speak her spherical.

She defined he noticed a ‘little little bit of overlap’ when it comes to her and Princess Diana’s expertise of life within the public eye, given how Stewart grew to become a family identify as a teen because of the Twilight franchise.

Admitting that being hounded by paparazzi ‘does form of soul suck’, Stewart instructed The Telegraph about how it may be ‘tough to put your self naked’ as an actor via worry of public scrutiny.

The California-born star defined she felt a whole lot of ‘accountability’ to ship after Larraín put his religion in her to embody the Princess, regardless of her suggesting he ought to ‘rent another person’.

Spencer explores the psychological anguish that the late royal confronted in wake of her husband’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Set throughout a tense Christmas spent on the Sandringham Property in 1991, Stewart depicts Diana’s ‘struggles to search out her place’ inside the monarchy and to ‘make peace’ together with her partner’s infidelity on display screen.

Discussing why she intiially did not really feel outfitted for the position, Stewart mentioned: “There have been some huge distinctions between her and me. It was the statuesque factor…it was the attention color – I’ve inexperienced eyes; she has very famously blue eyes that match her ring. So I used to be like, ‘Ought to we make the engagement ring inexperienced, then?'”

She defined changing into consumed by these particulars began to ‘pull her below’, earlier than the director urged her to ‘detach’ from them, saying it was extra about her sharing the same ‘spirit’ to Girl Di.

And Larraín’s phrases of knowledge finally paid off, as regardless of her considerations, Stewart’s position in Spencer ended up incomes her an Oscar nomination for Finest Actress in 2022.

Revealing how she related together with her character, the actress mentioned: “She was plucked, plucked to dying [by paparazzi]. And her rebellious qualities felt so determined, and so younger and so susceptible,” she mentioned, earlier than detailing how the wardrobe division helped too.

“The garments have been a part of the armour,” she mentioned. “They allowed me to step into her bodily house and create pictures of her on this jail of a fort but sporting lavish, gorgeous items of clothes. That may be a poem in itself.”

Half a decade on from Spencer, Stewart mirrored on how she felt ‘haunted’ by Diana throughout filming – earlier than including: “I nonetheless am.”

In the course of the interview which passed off in London, she mentioned: “I can’t drive spherical this metropolis, and Paris for that matter, with out enthusiastic about her. All of the love that poured out of this girl…I can cry about her at any second.”

Stewart, who bought married to her screenwriter girlfriend Dylan Meyer final 12 months, is ready to make her directorial debut right this moment (6 February) amid the discharge of her new movie The Chronology of Water.

Starring Brit actress Imogen Poots, the movie explores how an Olympic swimming hopeful flees her abusive residence because of a scholarship, solely to fall into habit – however she manages to search out solace in her research and literature.

The movie is an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the identical identify and it acquired a six-and-a-half-minute standing ovation on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant.