Kristen Stewart's scandal is career Viagra
She's busy making movies, he's busy making amends, and Robert Pattinson's busy with Witherspoon. Just another day in Hollywood.
Her relationship with Robert Pattinson may be on the rocks, but Kristen Stewart's career is sailing along just fine, thank you—she's attached to star in the movie adaptation of William Styron's classic slice of Southern gothic, Lie Down In Darkness, her publicist told TheWrap.
Scott Cooper, who directed Jeff Bridges to an Oscar in 2009's Crazy Heart, will slide behind the camera on the indie movie. There's no start date yet, so it's not clear when the movie will hit theatres.
Styron's novel centres on a dysfunctional and deeply unhappy Virginia family. Kristen will play Peyton Loftis, a suicidal woman who grows increasingly alienated from her emotionally repressive parents and loveless marriage.
Vulture, which broke the story, reports that Kristen beat out Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games) for the splashy role.
Despite the fallout that greeted the paparazzi shots of Kristen necking with Rupert Sanders, the married director of Snow White And The Huntsman, publicists told TheWrap that her career may even get a jolt from the scandal.
"Twenty, 30 years ago, controversy was a career killer," Howard Bragman, the veteran industry publicist and vice chairman of Reputation.com, told TheWrap. "Now it can be career Viagra. We kind of embrace controversy."
For the time being, Kristen's schedule is packed. In addition to gearing up for the November release of the final Twilight movie Breaking Dawn, Part 2, she's set to star in the action comedy Cali for Nick Cassavetes.
She's also attached to a Snow White sequel, although it's not clear when cameras will roll on the fantasy follow up or if Sanders will be the one manning them—Digital Spy reports that he's been banned from working with Kristen.
Sander's wife Liberty Ross, who played Snow White's real mother in his movie, issued the ban after his affair made headlines.
She's believed to have forgiven her cheating husband and was seen in public wearing his wedding ring again. But she's not taking chances this time—she's reportedly ordered him to give up control of the Snow White sequel.
"They're trying to work things out… and that's one of the sticky points—she doesn't want him to ever work with Kristen again," a source told Radar Online.
"Rupert's obviously disappointed because Snow White was his directorial debut and he had hoped on building on that. But he knows his actions were inexcusable, and he's going to have to bite the bullet and listen to his wife."
Kristen called the fling a "momentary indiscretion" but Pattinson's not buying it—he's moved into Reese Witherspoon's home to "mend his broken heart".
Source: TheWrap/Reuters, Digital Spy
Published: 3rd August 2012
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