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LuAnne married Neal Cassady at the age of 15 and divorced him soon after but remained his mistress for many years. She was with Dean and Sal as they travelled across the USA, experimenting with dregs, alcohol and other antics, often crude in nature. LuAnne is Marylou in On The Road. “I don’t resemble her at all,” proclaimed the actress Kristen Stewart who, before Twilight, lent her acting talents to the role of a pouting and sensual muse on the road and in the wild in Into The Wild by Sean Penn.
Do you remember what you felt when you first read On The Road?
This book truly ignited something in me when I first read it. I was 15. I loved the manner, the story … I was so taken with the boys! It was really different from any other book I had read. It was my first favorite book. The first thing I highlighted was a description of the way Marylou’s sitting in a room, like a surrealistic painting, disconnected from the boys. Thanks to Walter, we learned so much about these people – much more than what was written in the book: we knew the real story, we read the scroll version …
How did you react when Walter proposed you the role?
I was only 17. I was in my car, I was so excited that I kept switching gears. I just couldn’t believe it, until the day I was on set.
Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund told us that they were heart-broken when you left the set. Did you feel the same way?
I couldn’t believe they would carry on! Now it’s fine and I know I didn’t belong to the rest of it, but I could have literally stayed in the hotels, just sitting and watching. I wanted to stay over as badly. LuAnne had the same feeling; she had to be done but didn’t want to. She could have stuck around a little bit longer and torture herself but she desired not to.
You played in another road movie, Sean Penn’s Into The Wild. Was it a similar experience?
Comapred to all the work that I’ve done, they felt the most similar. These environments lived before we got there and lived in us, truly. Sean and Walter are not afraid of that feeling. In most movies, each one is trying to get his ownjob right. With Walter and Sean, it was rather like we were all doing something together. In Into The Wild, my character is rooted, unlike Marylou. If she was a little but older, she may have followed him out. She could have turned into a Marylou but she was just too young.
Marylou is not the typical Hollywood character. After Twilight, most roles you chose are rough and risky: The Runaways, Welcome to the Rileys … What drives you towards this type of characters?
People who have bereaves close to their skin have more to say. They are more interesting. It’s only risk to play them if you’re afraid to lose vast mainstream appeal. Most actors think about how they’re going to be perceived: “This is going to get me here, this is going to make me be this type of actor!” I don’t. That’s why I did Twilight as well. I loved it just as much as my other movies. It doesn’t really matter in what capacity it’s shown. What delivers me is “it” – as Keroauc would say. Luckily, me and LuAnne have that in common.
On The Road is now finally ready. What did you feel when you first watched it?
It’s hard to put it into words. It surprised me so often, it’s both really sad and fun to watch. I’m so proud of everyone! Most movies try to answer all of your questions. This one just leaves you asking more. It leads you places, but it doesn’t tell you where to go. Each time you watch it, you go down a different street.
Kerouac’s novel is very liberal in some aspects and pretty conservative in others – it has been criticized for its misogyny. On screen, your character seems stronger than in the book …
The movie would be so different if it was true to the novel! And people wouldn’t be satisfied. It would be such a shame not to tell the whole storyL how many times are we going to adapt this novel? It had to be a mixture between reality and fantasy.
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