Twilight's Kristen Stewart on growing up, getting married, and giving birth - W Magazine September 2011

Twilight's Kristen Stewart is the cover girl of the September 2011 issue of W Magazine. Lynn Hirschberg interviews Stewart .

Lynn Hirschberg: Everyone knows you as Bella Swan, the heroine of the Twilight series, whose penultimate installment, Breaking Dawn Part 1, premieres on November 18. What audiences may not know is that you've been acting since you were a child. How did you get your start?

Kristen Stewart: It's weird, because I would be the last person in my school to be in plays, but I was forced to sing a song in a school thing. I sang a dreidl song, which is funny for me. I've never celebrated Hanukkah--it wasn't in my upbringing, but it was one of those deals where everybody has to pick a song or participate somehow in the chorus. It wasn't the normal dreidl song; I can't really remember the words, but it was a more serious dreidl song. The dreidl was huge, it was really honored. And that's how I met my agent, who was in the audience. I was eight. I was nine when I did my first movie, The Safety of Objects.

Did you do any commercials, or did you go straight into films?
I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

In 1999 David Fincher cast you as Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room. He likes to do dozens of takes for each scene. Was that difficult, as a child?
I didn't realize that 80 takes wasn't normal. But it's funny: Some of my proudest moments from film sets are in Panic Room. My character had seizures. Just being able to say, I was 10 years old and I broke all the blood vessels in my eye on that take, is cool. It was fun.

You had a tomboy quality, which was unusual.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger. I was, like, No, I'm a girl. Actually, I'm still embarrassed to say that.

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