Years after stepping into Princess Diana’s life for the 2021 biopic “Spencer,” Kristen Stewart says the late royal still sits close to her heart. In fact, she is so close that certain streets and certain cities can bring it all back. Stewart has played many characters that stick with her audience, but this one role seems to have especially stayed with her in a way she did not anticipate.
Kristen Stewart says she can cry about Princess Diana ‘at any moment’
While Kristen Stewart was in London for the premiere of her new film, “The Chronology of Water,” she sat down for an interview with The Telegraph, speaking about Princess Diana’s lasting grip on her after she featured in the Princess’s biopic.
Even as she focuses on this next chapter, Stewart admitted she still feels shaken by the experience of portraying Diana. She said she felt “haunted by Princess Diana. And it hasn’t faded with time, as she confessed, “I still am. I can’t drive ’round this city, and Paris for that matter, without thinking about her,” before adding, “All the love that poured out of this woman… I can cry about her at any moment.”
The former Princess of Wales died in Paris in 1997 at age 36 after a car accident. This connection Stewart feels with Diana seems to be more than research and costume fittings; it also comes down to the emotional weight of playing someone so watched and so scrutinized.
In “Spencer,” Stewart played Diana during a tense Christmas period in 1991, as her marriage to Prince Charles neared its breaking point. Stewart said she questioned the casting at first, admitting, “I told Pablo he was insane and he should probably hire someone else,” and pointing to obvious differences like height and even eye color. But she said that director Pablo Larraín told her it was about “spirit.”
Kristen Stewart’s performance in Princess Diana’s biopic earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2022, and it also left a mark that she cannot undo. Stewart suggests that Diana’s story doesn’t end when the cameras stop, especially for someone who spent a while embodying her.
Originally reported by Ishika Mishra on RealityTea.
