Actress Kristen Stewart, who plays a 16-year old exotic dancer in the new drama Welcome to the Rileys, talks about how one pole-dancing scene left her covered with bruises.
She told E! Online, "I did some pole dancing. I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked." She added that the more she saw the pole, the more she had to keep going and do it. She also thinks it was good that her character was not sensual or sexy.
Director Jake Scott made the Twilight star take lessons from a real stripper. He reveals that Stewart was terrified at the thought of taking off her clothes, even though the set was only open to the film team, "She was terrified. The strip club we shot in was really a club, and it really was that dirty and really that tough. But she killed it."
Stewart can also be seen in the third installment of the Twilight franchise, Eclipse, coming to theatres on June 30, 2010.