Actress Kristen Stewart wants to get rid of her Bella Swan persona from the ‘Twilight Saga’ film series. After portraying a warrior in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ and playing a seductress in ‘On the Road’, the 22-year-old actor said that she wants to tackle darker roles. There’s been some speculation that Kristen Stewart would be perfect in the Anastasia role in the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie, but it doesn’t sound like anything Kristen is interested in. In fact, if Kristen has her way, she will next play by starring as suicidal girl Peyton Loftis in her upcoming movie. The character of Loftis appears in the book ‘Lie Down in Darkness’. “I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life. I want to play her so bad,” Stewart said. Loftis is a psychologically vulnerable young lady who falls for her own father. The actress also thinks Colin Firth would be perfect to play her father’s role. Stewart also has her eyes on another dark character. The star said she wants to play murderous Cathy Ames from the book ‘East of Eden’. “She is a troubled character who leaves her children to operate a brothel. She’s a psychopathic, evil. I haven’t done that yet.” Kristen is absolutely right to want to play characters that are as far from ‘Twilight’s Bella Swan as possible. If she wants a long acting career, it is imperative that she not get typecast. Although Kristen has been an actress since she was a child and she no doubt has a broad range, the fact is, Hollywood has a very short memory. Kristen is probably drowning in scripts with parts that are close to what Bella was. And since Anastasia Steele is based on the Bella character, to play her would be career suicide. Especially if the movie turns out to be a hit, she will never get away from the Bella-like roles. Stewart needs to go as evil, as psychopathic, as crazy as possible. She needs to do a character like Charlize Theron’s in ‘Monster’. Right now, she needs to prove to everyone that she’s got the acting chops to play a wide array of characters.
