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“I feel like I’ve grown into a buoyancy, and a willingness to have no control over anything. I’m actually now able to reveal myself more truly. I feel like people are seeing me more clearly than they ever have, which is lovely. That’s really nice”

Have you ever seen Miss Congeniality?” asks Kristen Stewart. She’s smiling a little, sitting cross-legged in a black sweater and jeans on the floor of her temporary apartment in Vancouver, where she is a week into filming her latest movie, a sexy, sci-fi, “revolutionary” project called Love Me in which “a satellite” and “a buoy”, played by herself and Steven Yeun, the man with all the cheekbones, fall in love. Just one week ago, when Love Me was still a mirage somewhere on the horizon, she was in New York, where she was honoured at the Gotham Awards for her performance as Princess Diana in Spencer. Julianne Moore, Stewart’s mentor and co-star in Still Alice, delivered a heartfelt tribute praising her passion and authenticity, calling Stewart the “coolest human on the planet”. (“I sent her flowers the next day and the note was: ‘I’m pretty sure there’s one person cooler than me and we know who that person is,’” Stewart says with a laugh.)

Yes, Kristen Stewart, I have seen . Well, the 31-year-old says, watching Moore that night felt like watching Sandra Bullock on stage in , warning off pageant saboteurs. “[Bullock] suddenly goes: ‘If tried to,’” Stewart paraphrases, tossing her head back in a perfect imitation of Bullock’s shiny, steely charisma. “That’s what I felt like [Moore] was doing. Like, ‘If thinks that she doesn’t care, let me correct you.’” Stewart was “so moved” by Moore’s speech, she admits. “She’s my work mom. We really see each other. I feel like she was like, ‘For anyone who thinks she doesn’t care, you shut up!’ I was like, ‘Oh, my god, Mom. Stop.’” Stewart grins. “But also, thank you.”