American actor Kristen Stewart was scared at the prospect of playing Britain’s Princess Diana in the new movie Spencer, but it was a challenge she could not refuse.
“Even if people hated it and it ended up being like a sort of misfire, we tried the best we could,” said Stewart. “This wasn’t something
I could pass up. I had to give it a shot.”
Spencer, arriving in US movie theaters on Thursday, is directed by Chile’s Pablo Larrain who has described it as an imaginative portrait of Diana rather than a biography. It starts with the words “A fable from a true tragedy.”
The movie is set during the 1991 Christmas holidays at Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate when Diana has all but given up on her marriage to Prince Charles.
It portrays her as increasingly isolated from the rest of the royal family and longing to break free from rules she sees as suffocating. Charles and Diana divorced in 1996 and Diana died in a Paris car crash a year later. “We absorbed her best that we possibly could, read everything, looked at everything. I emotionally connected with her. I love her. I’m not alone in that. She is loveable.” Stewart, 31, said.
