In her post-Twilight decade of work with arthouse auteurs, Kristen Stewart has developed her own style of playing the misfit. Lip: chewed. Collar: tugged. Hair: tousled. When the real world comes up short, some of her most memorable characters have looked to the great beyond for answers. In Spencer, her young Diana finds a spiritual sibling in a beheaded queen from Tudor times; Personal Shopper saw her fall prey to a paranormal hoax before a haunting encounter with the shadow world.
Stewart’s taste for the paranormal runs deep. Her new executive-produced show Living for the Dead is a ghost-hunting caper from a company formed with her screenwriter fiancee Dylan Meyer and producer Maggie McLean, and is a team-up with Scout Productions (Queer Eye, HBO’s Legendary). A motley gang of queer paranormal experts are on a mission to “help the living by healing the dead”, piling into a zhuzhed-up Mystery Machine decked out with shag carpets and gauzy pink curtains for a road-trip romp through some of America’s most notorious haunted hotspots.
