Woody Allen Talks Casting and Working With Kristen On ‘Cafe Society’ -May 10th
“Café Society” stars Kristen Stewart as an Audrey Hepburn-like secretary. Did you know she had a lighter side? I didn’t know. I took a chance. I had her read a paragraph and she read it so well, that all our apprehensions — which are not huge to begin with — vanished instantly. None of us knew her except in the heaviest of things. We did want to see if she had a lighter side. We assumed she did. She’s a young girl, and she’s certainly not going to be a grim. She said you made fun of the way she walked. I told her she walked like a relief pitcher coming in from the bullpen. I was expecting this beautiful creature to emerge and walk on. She suddenly looks like a guy coming out of a bullpen to walk out to the mound. After “ Twilight, ” she became the first young female movie star to headline a franchise in the Internet age. Do you have a sense of how she’s dealt with that? No, that’s something I have no idea of. I don’t have a computer. I’m not on the Internet. I ...