Kristen Stewart to critical acclaim for portraying Diana, Princess of Wales

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The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, takes place over a weekend in the early 1990s when Diana joined the Royal Family for Christmas at the Queens Sandringham Estate.

New York Times Kyle Buchanan said his casting was a stroke of genius.

He said: Stewart is one of the few people on the planet to have experienced a paparazzi scrutiny that is even somewhat comparable to the flashlight shooting that chased Diana to her death.

Screen Dailys Jonathan Romney said the actress was fragile, tender, sometimes playful and not a little strange.

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The Daily Telegraphs Robbie Collin said she would be instantly and deservedly rewarded for it.

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Speaking at a press conference at the film festival, Stewart told reporters: I think my impression can only be mine. But Diana was a woman who wanted people to come together and I think the ambition of this movie is to bridge the gaps.

I think if someone made a movie about me I wouldn’t feel like I wouldn’t feel robbed or taken. There is nothing salacious about our intention, I think it would probably be more grounded in the interpretation.

Describing the rules of royal life that she had to learn, she said: We had royal advisers, we had people to tell us all the things you couldn’t know as a foreigner.

The scene we portray in the film is a real denouement.

So once I learned the reverence and learned that we’re not supposed to go into the kitchen ourselves and steal food, all those details I don’t really remember, but there was always someone around to make sure that if something got off the line that we stayed genuine and that we didn’t undermine what we were trying to do, because I’m obviously American and not from this country.

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