Kristen Stewart said she and costar ex Robert Pattinson agreed on their approach to the teen vampire series: "I don't give a f--- about this, but I'm going to make this sing"



Kristen Stewart is looking back at her "young and stupid" days with former Twilight flame Robert Pattinson.

The Spencer actress, 31, reflected on making the blockbuster vampire romance franchise, telling The New Yorker about meeting eventual costar Pattinson and sharing aspirations about elevating the material with their performances.

"It was so clear who worked," Stewart told the magazine of doing chemistry tests with potential actors to play Edward to her Bella. She added that Pattinson, now 35, had an "intellectual approach that was combined with 'I don't give a f--- about this, but I'm going to make this sing.' "



"I was, like, 'Ugh, same.' And, whatever, we were young and stupid and, not to say that we made it so much better, but that's what it needed, and that's what anybody playing those parts needed to feel," she added.

Stewart also said that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was "kind of the perfect person to do a young-adult novel that had these dark romantic elements. She had this childlike openness and teenage triggers, and her whole sensibility was that the movie was going to feel horny and overconfident."

Hardwicke, 66, told The New Yorker why she felt Stewart was the right fit for the movie series, which also starred Taylor Lautner in the lead love triangle. "She's Bella. She's got to be Bella, because she keeps it so grounded and so real. I built the whole film around her," the filmmaker said of Stewart.