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BY KEVIN CARR

Kristen Stewart made a splash with her early feature, “Panic Room,” opposite Jodie Foster. Since the film’s release, she has been featured in many films in both starring and supporting roles. Her most recent film is “The Messengers,” a new horror picture from Hong Kong directors Danny and Oxide Pang (“The Eye”). Stewart took some time to speak with Kevin Carr about her upcoming feature and already extensive career.

Excepts from the interview follow. To hear the entire interview, click here.

7M: WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO THE FILM?
Initially, it was the filmmakers that were attached. I was really eager to work with them, Danny and Oxide Pang. I loved their movie “The Eye.” It’s eerie. It totally wigged me out.

7M: CONTRAST THE USE OF DAYLIGHT AND SUNLIGHT WITH THE DARKNESS IN THE FILM.
The setting of the film is really a classically American setting. It’s a jovial, beautiful sunflower farm. At the same time, these really incredibly terrifying, threatening occurrences are taking place every single day that this girl is there. We only had a few sequences that were actually outside. The inside of the house was really dark. Most of our horror sequences are in the basement and the cellar. The Pang brothers were involved in colors. They loved green. The whole house inside was really green toned.
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