Actress Kristen Stewart once learned to pole dance for a film role and visited a strip club to get in the right headspace, which led to a “straight up job offer”
Kristen Stewart learned how to pole dance for a major film role.
The Twilight actress landed a role in 2010’s Welcome To The Rileys and played a stripper. Kristen spoke to OK! Magazine about how she got into character for one of her most memorable roles to date.
“I went to my first strip club and upon entering the guy was like: ‘You’ll have to come back later if you want a job.’ I learned how to pole dance although you never really see it.”
“You do for a second; it’s like in silhouette. It really hurts and you don’t realise of course it’s really going to show.”
Kristen was even offered a job after she honed her skills: “I went to a strip club with the director and the costume designer and it being an odd grouping of people going into a strip club in the middle of the afternoon, I was like, straight up offered a job.”
In Welcome To The Rileys Kristen played Mallory, a 16-year-old exotic dancer who meets Doug, played by James Gandolfini.
The actress said that her role helped her gain some confidence: “I think what surprised me most is probably the fact that I was so unaware of the fact that I was walking down the street with my robe opened and fishnets and beyond caring at all. I wasn’t scared.”
Stewart admitted that she was “really glad” things took a while to “get up and running” because that meant when the time came, she was “old enough to play the part as opposed to not ready”.
“I think I would have shied away from it too much, so it was shocking to find myself in situations where I was completely fine with them.”
Throughout the 2010 flick, Kristen wore a number of skimpy costumes that helped portray her character: “You’re exposed so often, entrenched the entire time, literally never wanting to take off the trench coat.”
“Also, stuff is really dirty (…) makeup, sets obviously – anything to make you feel like you’re there.”
Welcome To The Riley’s follows Doug and Lois, a couple who have drifted apart since the tragic death of their daughter.
Lois shuts herself away while Doug escapes to New Orleans, where he stumbles across Mallory in a strip club.
The pair grow closer and Lois soon arrives, the pair looking at Mallory through rose tinted glasses as they try to replace their daughter.
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