

"You're clearly doing things because you want to be in some position of power and fame, which is not why I do what I do." "I understand when people are already successful, you try to control some perception or you try to choose parts based on some expectation of what people are going to think," she said. She explained that it's "really not that hard" for her to decide on which roles to take, saying that she does not approach parts "pragmatically" or by wondering what people will think. Oh, because I'm naked? That's very annoying." Stewart added that she doesn't think it was particularly courageous for her to go nude in the movie, saying: "I do hate also when people go, 'Oh, wow, great performance. I think that it would have been that I was scared to disappoint my Twilight fans or something." I think that I would have gotten flak for that. I think that it would have been so wrong to shy away from anything in this movie. She continued: "This book celebrates being alive and it celebrates being human, and if you want to cover up and deny any aspect of that, you are denying the spirit of the book. And I think that in this case, it needed to be." "I mean, projects that really require it are really few and far between.

"Actresses love to stand up and say, after they've shown their tits in a movie, that it was done tastefully and that it was, you know, far from gratuitous," she said. Speaking to The Huffington Post, the Twilight star pointed out that the moments make sense in the context of the movie. Kristen Stewart has laughed off suggestions that her nude scenes in On the Road were "brave".
