It seems Kristen Stewart hasn’t just spent the last couple of weeks issuing apologies for cheating and watching her relationship with Robert Pattinson implode, she’s also been signing up for a new movie. Vulture reports that Stewart has landed the lead role in Lie Down in Darkness, an adaptation of William Styron’s novel, which is set to be directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart).
The actress will play Peyton Loftis, a young woman at the centre of a dysfunctional family in 1950s Virginia. Peyton’s beauty has caused her mother to become jealous and hateful towards her, while the woman’s alcoholic father lusts after her. She also has a crippled sister named Maudie. Sounds like a cheerful one then.
The movie has been eyeing Jennifer Lawrence, but she will be busy for the next six months or so shooting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and X-Men: Days of Future Past back-to-back.