3. Kristen Stewart Embroils Herself In Real-Life And Movie Love Triangle
In July 2012, Kristen Stewart was all over the tabloids and gossip mags. But why is this? Well, it had recently been discovered that while filming Snow White And The Huntsman in which she plays a revisionist, armour-clad Snow White Stewart was having an affair with the director Rupert Sanders. This was especially big news to celeb-centric correspondents because for 4 years, Stewart had been in a relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson after meeting on-set, and they'd rarely been off the magazine front pages since. So with a high-profile relationship on the rocks, the writers circled, and things eventually came to a head when Stewart offered a very public apology to Pattinson in People Magazine. The whole thing was manna from heaven in showbiz circles, and many virtual trees worth of copy were written covering the pair's post-affair interactions and granting Sanders a level of fame/infamy superseding his previous reputation as a competent if un-memorable director. But to seasoned irony watchers, this was just Stewart's film history repeating itself in real life. To remind you of Twilight's plot something we apologise in advance for it involved Stewart's Bella Swan wringing whole hours of dramatic mileage out of umm-ing and ahh-ing between her two suitors before eventually, she ending her dalliance with a werewolf and shacking back up with Edward Cullen. So basically, if you replace a vampire who creepily hangs round at high schools with his real-life counterpart and a perennially shirtless man with Sanders, you've got to admit there's certain similarities. Unfortunately, this entire kerfuffle ended up overshadowing the entire movie, and committed a cardinal sin, which goes thus when the action behind the camera is eminently more watchable than what's unfolding on-screen, you've probably done it wrong. So audiences forgot the film in double-quick time in favour of the showbiz news, meaning Charlize Theron's awesome scenery-chewing turn as Queen Ravenna was overshadowed. And that, world, is a crying shame. Doubtless, Stewart's no longer on Theron's Christmas card list.
