Kristen Stewart: One-Trick Pony?

It’s going to be years before you can escape Kristen Stewart. The success of the first Twilight movie secured playing dejected vampire-lover Bella Swan something the actress will be doing for sequels to come—three, to be exact.

She isn’t completely confined to being a fang-banger (man, when is True Blood coming back on?), though. In Adventureland, a teen comedy just hitting theaters, she plays Em Lewin, an awkward, self-loathing amusement park employee. (Watch a clip here).

But perhaps the most daunting role Stewart has in front of her is that of a 15-year-old rock and roller Joan Jett for the upcoming biopic, Runaways.

How well she can pull it off depends largely on how close she feels to a modern version of Joan Jett, one would guess. Acting chops? Irrelevant. In the March 2009 issue of Nylon, K-Stew spoke about choosing roles:

“I’ve only played characters that are like…me. I’ve never played a character that was any different from what I would do in a situation. I’ve always been completely…honest and—blegh—right there.”

Not to be all judgy-judger, but if she chooses characters who are so much like her, how is that even acting?

Granted, there’s Vince Vaughn and the entire Judd Apatow crew (Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, I Love You, Man) who basically play themselves in every movie—but they’re funny. N’ah mean?

Maybe K-Stew’s talent is yet to be realized. I’m just sayin’ in a couple years, she’s going to have to go head-to-head with that little freaky-leaky coming-of-age prodigy Dakota Fanning. And I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be on her sh*tlist. I feel like she’d show up in the middle of the night and shave your head—or beat the bejesus out of voo-doo you while she smiles and hums Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Anyway, I digress. Do you think K-Stew should take on a more challenging role, or just keep playing versions of “herself”? Will she able to bring some life to the Joan Jett biopic? Is it an insult to those who actually practice the craft of acting, or is that really in the hands of casting directors?

I’d personally like to see her play an overzealous cheerleader. I think that’d be a stretch.