Ok, so maybe we were a bit harsh on Kristen Stewart earlier. Her ambivalent responses to New Moon queries during her Adventureland tour of Sundance seemed a bit off for the female lead in one of the year’s biggest blockbusters. She said that New Moon had turned into a “machine.”   And then we read…..this:

[Camilla] Belle says that Robert Pattinson, who portrayed the sexy vampire lead in the hit film opened up to her about the stresses of required “media training.”

“My friend Rob, for that whole Twilight nonsense, the studio was having them take all these classes,” the 22-year-old actress tells Nylon magazine in its February issue. “It was the most frustrating thing in the world because they want you to speak like someone else, not yourself. It’s so silly. And I would be frustrated, too.”

Media Training? Wow. Studios should be aiming for transparency in this age of the web, not pushing stars to interact with the press like trained animals. In this light–that Summit is giving “media training” to at least one of the Twilight stars–Ms. Bella should be applauded for her honest opinion of how New Moon has gone so far. There’s also an interesting Reuters article from today that sheds some light on how to Kristen Stewart learned to deal with the spotlight–

Stewart is a child of Hollywood — the daughter of a stage manager and a script supervisor — and her Los Angeles upbringing provided a close up view of fame that has helped her handle the three-ring media circus of Hollywood celebrity.

“I grew up on a set,” she told Reuters at Sundance. “I don’t take it as seriously, and then at the same time I take it more seriously than anyone. It’s like a balance.”

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