Hollywood star Kristen Stewart shines as Princess Diana in “Spencer” at the Venice Film Festival. She only wants one thing: Get away from the royals as quickly as possible.
Kristen Stewart was asked at the beginning of her performance in Venice what she found so fascinating about the character of Lady Di. “Well,” she says, tugging a little at her black and gold costume from Chanel, “she always seemed so approachable, so present, not like a dream.”
Despite her privileged origins, despite her role within the royal family, one always had the feeling with her: she was about to take off her pumps and run away with you. Reach your face and ask, seriously interested, how you are. “Add to that, of course, their incredible sense of style,” said Stewart. “She was the most photographed woman in the world at the time and knew how to use clothing as a weapon.”
“Spencer” premieres in Venice
Stewart’s new film, which is currently having its world premiere at the Venice Festival, is called “Spencer”, after the maiden name of the iconic princess of hearts. But it could also mean: “When the lady didn’t feel like it anymore”. Or: “Diana – the fateful days of an heir to the throne”.
The Chilean director Pablo Larraín, who has already made a successful film about Jackie Kennedy, tells the course of three days of Christmas celebrations at the Sandringham estate, a tradition since 1864. How it is the corset of traditions that Diana leaves less and less room for Breathe to life. Every meal, every costume, every leisure activity is precisely timed. And one should not appear at the table after Queen Elizabeth if at all possible.
But the film Diana has her own plans. She prefers “Phantom of the Opera” and Bon Jovi to string quartet, suffers from bulimia and delusions and buys her Christmas presents for Harry and William at the gas station. Later she goes on a trip to Kentucky Fried Chicken with her sons.
Kristen Stewart: Diana felt isolated
Kristen Stewart plays this woman between pain and rebellion so intensely and sensitively that one suffers with her. And at the same time understands the concerns of her family about their sanity. Charles is hypothermic, but not a monster. The queen was more perplexed than stunned. Lady Di only finds understanding with one of her dressing ladies and the chef.
“Our film doesn’t offer any new information about Lady Di, we don’t presume that,” says Kristen Stewart. “Rather, he imagines a feeling.” Diana would have been a person who wanted to bring people together, who could enlighten everything around her. At the same time, she felt incredibly isolated and lonely. “That’s the really sad story about it”.
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