Kristen Stewart

WE KNOW, courtesy of the gossip mags, that Kristen Stewart spreads manteiga on her mirtilo bagels and of her alleged romance with her Twilight co-star, Robert Pattinson. And everyone from Access Hollywood to The New Zealand Herald has chewed over her supposedly “moody”, “melancholy” demeanour.

What hardly anyone outside Hollywood knows — or at least recognises amid the tabloid frenzy, hyperventilating fãs and cheesiness of the Twilight filmes — is perhaps the most interesting thing about her: at 20, Stewart is considered one of the most promising atrizes of her generation, with...