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Kristen Stewart: Beyond the Twilight Saga
by Troy Rogers
 Although
Kristen Stewart is a global Twilight star due
to her role as Bella Swan in the Stephenie Meyer
created Twilight Saga, Stewart has hinted that
she's getting tired of the Twilight Saga hype
and its impact on her career beyond the Twilight
films. Really, with so much non-stop Twilight
attention leading up to New Moon, can you really
blame Kristen Stewart for feeling that way? But
how will Kristen Stewart feel two years from now
after the remaining two Twilight films, Eclipse
and Breaking Dawn, are released? Although it's
hard to tell how Kristen Stewart will feel when
she looks back at her Twilight Saga time years
from now, one thing we can bank on is that Kristen
Stewart will continue to get work as an actress.
While we're sure Kristen Stewart doesn't hate the Twilight Saga, and certainly enjoys her time with Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, why is it that people dream about landing a lead role in a huge film only to see actors like Stewart and Pattinson get bogged by the fame once it arrives and still want the fame? In the case of the Twilight Saga stars, fame came quick like a Twilight tidal wave. To some degree, there's an element of being careful what you wish for. But for Kristen Stewart, this wasn't always the case. When the 19 year old Los Angeles actress first broke into the business pre-Twilight, with bit parts in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and the indie film The Safety of Objects, it's probably safe to say that Kristen Stewart never would have guessed she'd reach such Twilight heights of celebrity.
Although the true talents of Kristen Stewart were seen in her first major role alongside Jodie Foster in the 2002 thriller Panic Room, other roles soon followed and years later Kristen Stewart landed her first lead role in the supernatural thriller The Messengers in 2007. But in 2008, the life and career of Kristen Stewart changed forever after landing Bella Swan from the Stephenie Meyer penned Twilight Saga.
 For
Twilight and New Moon star Kristen Stewart,
an actress that didn't appear to have any trouble
getting work before Twilight came along (Stewart
actually did her screen test for Twilight on
the set of Adventureland), what has the Twilight
Saga given Kristen Stewart? The simple Twilight
answer is worldwide fame. But if you look at
the countless Twilight and New Moon related
headlines surrounding Kristen Stewart, at times
it appears Kristen is paying a heavy price for
such global celebrity Twilight status along
with Twilight and New Moon co-star Robert Pattinson.
That is of course, if you believe the many Twilight
Saga headlines.
Career wise for Kristen Stewart, the role of Bella Swan in the Twilight Saga has opened major doors in Hollywood, with a stream of non-Twilight opportunities pouring in, albeit most of them are undoubtedly somehow vampire related. But on the other side of the Twilight coin, the private life of Kristen Stewart is under the Twilight microscope and experiencing exactly what it is to be the new Hollywood "it girl". With the Twilight Saga close to wrapping production on the third film, Eclipse, and one more Twilight movie to shoot in Breaking Dawn (one would bank on at some Twilight point), where does Kristen Stewart go from here?
Beyond the Twilight Saga with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart will soon be seen in The Runaways in the role of 70's rocker Joan Jett along with her Twilight Saga co-star Dakota Fanning. Kristen Stewart will also be seen in the film K-11, which also stars her Twilight Saga co-star, Nikki Reed, in which both Twilight gals will take their acting game to new heights by playing two male characters.
 After
the Twilight Saga, will New Moon star Kristen
Stewart continue to become an even bigger leading
lady, or does Kristen have other non acting
aspirations in mind? Although acting will undoubtedly
be an aspect of her career beyond the Twilight
Saga, Kristen Stewart is looking to other areas
of interest in the entertainment industry, as
Stewart revealed to Vanity
Fair back in 2007: "I want to go to college
for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean,
I love what I do, but it's not all I want to
do-be a professional liar for the rest of my
life."
What's in store for Kristen Stewart beyond the Twilight Saga? At 19, Stewart has her entire acting life ahead of her after so much Twilight success at an early age. Who knows, maybe one day we'll see Kristen Stewart take over from Melissa Rosenberg and write the script for another Twilight Saga movie. At this Twilight time, the acting world is wide open for Kristen Stewart.
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