Kristen Stewart wears a gorgeous Gucci Fall 2012 ruffled dress and gets the heavy makeup glam treatment for the October cover of Vogue UK.

The 22 year-old is gearing up for major press scrutiny (if she didn’t have enough of that already) and promotional duties for her upcoming films On The Road and the final installment of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. Stewart sat down with Vogue and talked about her blonde ‘do, her awkward self and why she feels an affinity for the Beat Generation:

On being a blonde in ‘On The Road’ and how it felt:
“I feel like my whole body rejects it, but it was really important for the character. It was like learning an accent!”

On being clusmy and staying authentic to who she really is:
“I know if you haven’t thought about how you want to present a very packaged idea of yourself then it can seem like you lack ambition. But, dude, honestly? I can’t. People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I’m not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, ‘OK, I’m really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?’ I wouldn’t know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can’t.”

On why she relates to the Beat Generation:
“There is always going to be that seam of people who want things differently to the standardized version. It’s not necessarily a rebellious thing, it’s just who they are. That world back then, it just seems freer to me than anything I could ever touch and I’m fully nostalgic for it, even though I wasn’t even alive then. It’s the loyalty aspect of it all. I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don’t get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.”

[image: Mario Testino/Vogue UK]

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