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Kristen Stewart Feels 'Strong' In 'Snow White' Armor

The "Twilight Saga" actress took to the stage to promote "Snow White and the Huntsman" in Hall H alongside her co-stars Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin, producer Joe Roth and director Rupert Sanders. Unfortunately, there was no footage to show since the flick doesn't start shooting until next week, but the cast did bring some first looks at the costume design and general feel of the movie.

Stewart's Snow White doesn't have a yellow and blue dress, and there's not a bow to be seen. Instead, she was decked out in a full suit of armor and sported a giant shield with a white tree emblazoned on it. Her Prince Charming, played by Claflin, was similarly dressed, though he teased that his prince was not as sweet as he might have been in previous incarnations.

As the titular Huntsman, Hemsworth looked a bit ragged and dirty with his axe and commoner's clothes. When asked what it took to get him in costume for that, he joked that it required "about four or five of hours of rolling around in the mud, four days of drinking" and for the clothes to be dug up "from the backyard in Australia."

The evil stepmother, played by Theron, was as imposing as anyone could have been hoped for. Theron looked like a more badass version of the evil queen from the classic Disney cartoon, with a braided blonde coif on her head and a dagger in hand.

"This, as a fable, she sort of just starts off as a bad person, so it was important to understand [why she is the way she is]," Theron explained about her character. "A lot of her circumstances will kind of bleed into her actions ... She's a serial killer; I'm pretty much preparing to play a serial killer."

This will be one of Stewart's first roles outside of "The Twilight Saga," and Roth said part of the draw of casting her was to be the one who helped her expand as an actress. For Stewart, it was the chance to play a tougher role.

"It's not a little girl sitting by a well with little tweety birds telling her what to do and where to go," she said of her character. "[The costume] makes you feel kind of strong occasionally, sometimes, but I kind of feel tiny, my pinhead sticks out of these enormous things."

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Kristen will be terrific! ppl who claim she can't act clearly haven't seen her performances in Welcome To The Rileys, The Runaways, The Cake Eaters, Into The Wild, and The Yellow Handkerchief. Thank goodness it doesn't matter what the haters think because A-list producers, directors and stars want to work with her. If she was so horrible that wouldn't be the case.

if you had were going to be a cartoon character, which one would ...

Aquaman is boring but i love scuba d6v9ng ;o) superman is over the top. spiderman is pretty cool too. i think for fantasy & role play, logically itd be reed richards, "stretch" of the fantastic 4. (the invisible girls hot & invisible so you can role play very easily that youre with a different girl every time ;o)

i will say roger rabbit, (only built like i am in my avatar) lol & bc jessica’s a killer babe, more so bc she absolutely is deep down in love with her man! er, rabbit!

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