Kristen Stewart: Twilight
It pains me to stick Kristen Stewart in this category, because the reality is she’s a talented actress who has delivered several memorable turns in movies like Into the Wild and What Just Happened. And, honestly, I’m not sure that any performer would have been able to make Bella Swan–the teen gal at the center of the vampire love story Twilight–into a believable, three-dimensional human being. As written, Bella is a complete cipher, someone whom young readers can project their own personalities onto in order to pretend that they’re locking lips with a studly young bloodsucker with ripped abs and a chaste bedside manner. Accordingly, Stewart goes through all two hours of Twilight with a blank expression on her face, never cracking a smile or expressing any emotion beyond detachment. On the one hand, I can at least take consolation in the fact that the movie’s phenomenal box office success means she won’t have any trouble finding other films to star in. Too bad, one of those films is the Twilight sequel, New Moon…
