Thanks to The Back-Lot for sending us a link to this interview with “Welcome to the Rileys” costume designer Kim Bowen.

Here are some excerpts of Bowen’s interview talking about Stewart:

Getting the perfect look for Stewart’s character of Mallory:

“Kristen Stewart was a challenge because she is really, really elegant. She is one of the most naturally elegant people I have ever encountered. She just had a natural thing about her body, the way she is shaped and the way she moves. She is an extremely gifted actress and I don’t know if that is part of what lends her as such an expert interpretation of clothes.”

“We went through three different paths to get her wardrobe right. The first time it was a stylist’s dream, she looked amazing. A modern version of Jodie Foster in “Taxi Driver,” she just looked amazing. We then realized it was wrong, she looked too good. We wanted to have her look more fragile.”

”In the end, we had to really strip it down. She ended up wearing large over-size clothes, hiding herself. You only get to really see her fully in her stripper outfits, very crude -what a young girl would think sexy looks like.”

Kristen Stewart’s investment in the character:

“Kristen is a very invested actress. She has been doing the Twilight films, and it was very important to her to play this character with a real dose of reality. I don’t think she wanted anything frivolous out of it, I don’t think she wanted to be glamorous. That wasn’t important to her, she wanted it to be real.”

“Kristen is a very courageous actress. She wanted to be fully that character of Mallory. She didn’t care about looking beautiful; in fact she thought quite the opposite. She had the make-up artist cover her with bruises and cold sores. Kristen looked a wreck half the time. She didn’t have any desire to be physically perfect.”

Welcome to the Rileys tells the story of Gandolfini and Leo, as Doug and his wife Lois who are dealing with the death of their teenage daughter. On a business trip to New Orleans, Doug meets teenage stripper Mallory. After turning her down at the strip club where Mallory works, Doug offers to pay Mallory $100 a day if he can stay for a while, get his head together. No sex. No strings. Lois soons joins Doug in New Orleans, and the couple try to heal their broken lives and save Mallory’s in the process.

You can listen to the entire interview here at The Back-lot

It’s finally here! We’re so excited! Posted on the official twitter earlier, the official release date is November 5th! Let us know your thoughts! Captures are now available!

Gallery Link: Trailer Captures

As just tweeted by the official WTTR twitter:

We’ve been waiting so long for this – we can’t wait to see it! Make sure to follow @Welcome2Rileys and us too to find out when it goes live!

Straight from the Welcome to the Rileys twitter (follow if you’re not already):

watch ACCESS HOLLYWOOD tomorrow night if u wanna glimpse of the TRAILER!!!!!!!

Can’t wait! We’ll bring you coverage as it comes along!

Here are the first few photos of the LAFF “Welcome to the Rileys” premiere — we’ll add more as we find them! Also expect to see our new layout up very, very soon! ;)

Gallery Link: 06.25.10: LAFF “Welcome to the Rileys” Premiere

Welcome to The Rileys is now heading to this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. The movie will screen on June 25th and 27th. More information can be found here at the official site of the festival.

Kristen has also been listed to attend the June 25th screening.

Here are several new photos from the USA Today photoshoot. Enjoy!

Gallery Link: 2010: Session 018 (USA Today Portraits)

The Welcome to the Rileys twitter also update about the trailer status:

WTTR trailer being finalized for Sony. Under big deadline in order for it to be included on The Runaways DVD

Pretty exciting! We can’t wait!

Using the Welcome2Rileys twitter, Kristen “twatted” about the movie. Check out her tweets below and make sure to follow the account to show your support!

FROM KS– So basically, the suits (aka foreign distribution) don’t think twilight fans wanna see WTTR. I really believe in the movie!

FROM KS– I am “Twatting” for the second time ever to see who believes in it too cuz its worth a try!!

FROM KS–So listen to Gio! HA. And help me try to get the movie to as many people as possible!-Kristen Stewart

Such great news for the film! Hopefully we’ll get more info in the next coming weeks!

Bob Berney’s Apparition teamed with the Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group to acquire domestic distribution rights to Welcome to the Rileys, the Jake Scott-directed drama that stars James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo. Apparition is eyeing a fall distribution slot. I’m told the deal was seven figures with a P&A commitment.

The Scott Free/Argonaut-produced film made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and created strong buzz, particularly among fans of Twilight star Stewart. Some of them sent e-mail missives to distribution executives, urging them to make a deal and get the film into theaters. The UTA Independent Film Group repped the film.

Gandolfini and Leo play a couple whose marriage becomes a wreck following the death of their teenage daughter. On a business trip to New Orleans, the husband finds himself drawn to an underage prostitute, insinuating himself as her platonic guardian. Jake Scott made his feature directing debut, and Ridley and Tony Scott, Scott Free president Michael Costigan and Steve Zaillian on its producing roster.

It was the second significant deal for a Sundance film made by UTA Independent after the festival ended. The first was a Sony Pictures Classics acquisition of U.S. and Latin American rights to Animal Kingdom, the David Michod-directed film that won the fest’s World Cinema Jury Prize.

UTA Independent also brokered a distribution deal for the Ryan Reynolds film Buried, with Lionsgate closing the deal hours after the film’s midnight premiere.

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