Kristen Stewart leaves “Twilight” far behind in a sexy, adventurous performance in “On The Road,” based on the iconic Jack Kerouac novel, where she “pushed herself” hard, she told the media at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
In the film directed by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) Stewart appears topless and close to fully naked in several scenes. She plays Marylou, the wife of one of the writers who joins them on their road adventures.
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In one particularly raunchy scene, she is sitting in the front of the car between the Kerouac-like character Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) and her husband Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund).