American actress Kristen Stewart won praise for her outstanding performance at the premiere of “Spencer” at the Venice Film Festival on Friday afternoon.
Stewart looked teary-eyed at the end of the film, as she hugged director Pablo Larraín. Speaking after a press screening about Diana’s enduring legacy 24 years after her death, Stewart said: “I think it’s just something she was born with."
“There are some people endowed with an undeniable penetrating energy. The really sad thing about her is that as normal and casual and disarming in her air (as she was), immediately she also felt so isolated and lonely."
Stewart drew critical acclaim for her extraordinary performance, including a posh British accent, with the Daily Mail calling her “spectacular.”
“Kristen Stewart is Oscar-deservingly great - and Meghan Markle’s going to love it,” Daily Telegraph critic Robbie Collin tweeted. There’s already been plenty of talk in Venice that the role will likely land Stewart her first Oscar nomination.
In the same vein, the actress affirmed that despite the sadness permeating the film she had very much enjoyed embodying Diana, her manners and demeanor, adding however that “the curtsy went out of the window as soon as I stepped off set.”
“I took more pleasure in my physicality making this movie than I have on anything. I felt more free and alive and able to move and taller, even.”
On his part, Larraín said he had wanted to tell the story of Diana because it was an upside-down fairytale.
“This is the story of a princess who decided to move away from the idea of becoming a queen because she wants to be herself,” the director noted.
He said he had done extensive research on her, but his film - which includes appearances by the ghost of Anne Boleyn - was a work of fiction, imagining what might have happened during a fateful few days in which Diana decided to get a porce.
“We didn’t aim to make a docudrama, we wanted to create something by taking elements of the real, and then using imagination,” he pointed out.
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