I’m going to date myself so much in this post, but that’s the way it goes. I came of age in the era of grunge. I think I was 13 or 14 when I first heard Pearl Jam and Nirvana. And at that time, I was friends with all of the flannel-wearing, Patchouli-smelling, Manic-Panic-hair-dyeing grunge kids. And right now, Kristen Stewart looks exactly like all of my friends at that time.
These are pics of Kristen on the NOLA set of American Ultra, the action/comedy she’s doing with Jesse Eisenberg. Is this film set in 1993? Because this entire outfit/vibe looks like 1993 to me. We actually had a preview of Kristen’s hair change a few weeks ago – back then, it looked like she dyed her hair a light orange, but I guess the orange was just a base for the Manic Panic look. God, this makes me nostalgic. I want to get high for the first time and listen to The Cure. The only difference is that in 1993/94, we were all wearing Doc Martens, not Timberlands.
A bunch of late editions have joined the cast of this film too – in addition to Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen will be joined with Topher Grace, Sharon Stone, Tony Hale, Bill Pullman and John Leguizamo. The basic plot: “Eisenberg is a small-town stoner who doesn’t realize he’s a highly trained killer. Stewart plays his girlfriend.” She looks the part. But I still want to know if this is set in the early ‘90s.
PS… Sources say Kristen is sad that Sparkles went to Coachella without her. But I think she’s probably just happy to be working – she’s been doing back-to-back projects for months after not working for like two years.
PPS… Yes, she’s still smoking. I think she quit on-and-off when she was with Sparkles, but she’s been a steady smoker for more than a year, I believe.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I had that flannel AND that hair color.
I was never brave enough to go that color but I had a few various shades of WTH. (pink, blue, light orange,an accidental shade of green)
I had manic-panic purple, the ubiquitous 90s burgundy color and blue-black. I also did a horrific two-toned thing where the front pieces were blonde and the back was black…
*shivers*
The nostalgia comes on STRONG everytime I listen to PJ’s “Ten”…sigh
I had 50 shades of flannel in those days!
Never actually used real dye in my hair, but used koolaid many times to temporarily do the bright color hair trick.
I had that hair color — along with many others and yes about the docs. I lived in my black hoodie and docs. I went to london for the first time when I was 15, left with bright yellow hair similar to gaga “telephone” video hair and I cleaned out the soho docs store and came back with smurf blue hair. It turned into some mich-mosh swamp green color inside a week, then I kool-aid dyed for a while until I could find fire engine red manic panic.
My shoes lasted me up until soph yr of college. I still firmly think that was the best time for music…..the best….R&B, gangsta rap, Grunge, Indie, Pop — you would keep it on the same radio statio for days and get every genre on the popular music stations.
P.S. Although I had several docs and classic black will always be my go to, i sincerely miss these: http://www.90s411.com/images/floral-doc-martins-vintage-90s.jpg and I would buy them all over again.
They still make those they are everywhere right now.
I miss the old radio stations. You could listen for hours and not hear a song repeated. And you could hear many genres of music. I love Kristen’s hair. One of her new movies is in competition at Cannes. And the movie she is shooting now looks fun.
Correct – If you’re gonna get high for the first time, do it while listening to 90s alternative music. God I miss those days and that music.
ditto! You can’t buy whole albums anymore. Used to be out of 15 songs, maybe one or two wouldn’t be that great but you’d listen to the whole album all the way through because that’s how they made them. Now it’s all singles and fillers. On one album I may like 3 songs.
I liked the 90s. It was a simpler time
Wow, this brings back memories of ditching English class.
She does remind me of quite a few people I knew back then.
It looks like that color may have fried her hair.
finally that whole ‘not showering’ habit can be explained away by ‘immersing herself into the role’ and not being a slovenly piggy
Did she say she doesn’t shower? Where did all that come from?
She never said she doesn’t shower. It was started by someone hating on her. You say anything enough and people believe it, or at least pretend to believe it to hurt Kristen.
She’s looks awful, but that’s the look for the role. She should be good in this movie.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that her shoes were wrong. Everyone, EVERYONE, wore Doc’s.
I had about 6 pairs of them..probably 7 pairs of Chucks.
I wore Doc Martens and Timberlands. I was hip-hop grunge I guess. @Sarah Timberlands were/are never “unhip.”
I never had a pair of Docs. I wore Timberlands. So maybe her character is supposed to be as tragically unhip as I was.
+ 1 on Timberlands (worn with leg warmers and/or overknees)
I have to disagree with the dismissal of Timberlands. Docs, Timberlands, and Chucks were the big three for grunge. Now, if you were goth or punk, you’d definitely go with Docs primarily.
EVERYONE — EVERYONE either wore docs, chucks (alternative kids) or jordans or jelly shoes (everyone else). There were no timbalands — that was a west coast thing that never got big in the midwest.
I was wondering that too, Chicagogurl. We definitely didn’t have Tims out here in the east. They didn’t become popular in Boston at least) until the late-late-nineties.
I was East Coast & wore Timberlands in the early-mid 90s. I’m from the South, though.
I miss the 90s, too. If the 90s are coming back, hopefully great rock music will also come back. Not this pansy ass pop shit they’re trying to pass off as rock these days. #rockandrollisnotdead
I’m from Indianapolis, but lived on the East Coast in the mid to late 90’s. We were definitely wearing Tims in the 90’s. I’m confused as hell to the people who didn’t see Tim’s on the East Coast. Have you never watched a rap video from the 90’s? Classic. Tan. Tims. When I think of Notorious B.I.G., my mind immediately pictures him in a Coogi sweater and some Tims.
That hair color does her no favors — it gives her skin a ghastly pallor.
Eh, I like her.
And who cares if she’s smoking. Half of Hollywood is.
I like her too. I think she came of bad in interviews because she’s awkward, shy and introverted.
Shy people don’t flip the bird and swear as much as she does in public and prides herself with that, nevermind the minicoopering in public with a married man.
I can think of a few actresses who flipped the bird and were rude to journalists.
I don’t care about the swearing.
What she did with Rupert was incredibly wrong, but I blame him more. And there are actors and actresses who have done the same and were forgiven and are loved.
@haha She probably flips them off because the paparazzi can say really inappropriate things at times.
@haha
She seems to have chilled out as far as reacting to the paps over the past year or so. She’s like 23 or 24 and became super famous at 17 or so with Twilight, so age probably helped her deal with it. She’s certainly not the first celeb to flip out at the paps either, and I don’t get how flipping out on them precludes her from being introverted in your opinion.
Her and Sparkles seem to be moving in the same acting circles.
He did Cosmopolis with Juliette Binoche/she did Sils whatever with Juliette Binoche
He’s boning Julianne Moore in another Cronenberg movie/she just made a movie with Julianne Moore
He’s also in the same movie with Mia Wachwski who, last I checked was dating Jesse Eisenberg/ She’s currently filming with…you guessed it, Jesse Eisenberg.
Could be coincidence, who knows.
For a second I thought it said ‘Ultron’ and thought she somehow got into the Avengers movie and was briefly homocidel.
I graduated from high school in 1994 and have been living in a grunge-nostalgic haze for weeks now. It started w/the anniversary of Kurt’s death. My So-Called Life also premiered in 94 and I think Angela Chase had those exact same boots and they were not Doc Martens. I, on the other hand, did have a pair of cherry red Docs that I wore until the soles were gone. I just finished reading “Cobain” by the Rolling Stone editors and watched Courtney Love’s Behind the Music on YouTube and “Singles” on VHS. The Pacific Northwest was cool before Twilight…oh how I miss the 90’s.
I was JUST think of Singles soundtrack the other day.
Paul Westerberg, man. I’ve watched MSCL 1,000,000 times and it just never gets old for me.
On another note, I am commenting way too much today. I figure I’ll get all the commenting out of my system now and then just work non-stop tomorrow while avoiding celeb gossip entirely. It’s all very strategic, you see….
OMG! Paul Westerberg. Hubby and I were just talking about this whole soundtrack business. The Singles soundtrack, the Crow Soundtrack, Tank Girl Soundtrack, The Hackers Soundtrack, Empire Records soundtrack…i could go on and on. Buying the soundtrack was always a must! You cannot find soundtracks as amazing and eclectic these days. I still listen to them all.
Yeah, VHS! And you needed two recorders to make a copy… My friend’s dad was a teacher, and at his school of course they had more than just one video recorder… So he copied all the films for his son’s friends. Uh, good times.
And thanks for the Singles reminder. I’m getting pumped up on the soundtrack right now. God, Matt Dillon was so hot with that wig. (All the guys I dated at the time looked like that anyway.)
Oh, and I wore my hair a quarter of an inch long, in blue-black, and that went so well with my first boyfriend’s Blonde Jesus Look… Goood times.
Damn, now I’m totally nostalgic. Life lost its innocence in 2001. I somehow feel that he nineties ended on 9/11.
Oh my god..The Crow soundtrack and The Empire Records soundtrack: YES!
I actually have The Crow soundtrack on CD and I occasionally listen to it in my car.
Matt Dillon was smoking in that movie.
Interesting (and thoroughly depressing) comment about innocence lost on 9/11. You’re really onto something with that…
While I am a fan of The Crow and Singles soundtracks Empire Records is one of my all time favorites, the movie and the soundtrack. I’m going to have to go home and watch it.
Oh and MSCL, me and my best friend were on the phone the minute that show was over talking about it. Sometimes when Jordan was looking especially hot (boiler room) we called in the middle. I really do miss those times.
I meant to put this comment below yours, not in it.. whoops.
The Empire Records soundtrack IS amazing and so was the movie. First time I saw Zellwegger in anything–that was one of the most perfectly-cast movies.
Man, Jordan Catalano was so beautiful, I remember getting butterflies just watching scenes that he was in….before we all knew what a douche Leto was. I wish we could go back to there…
Good Lord, Kaiser. I feel you. *rummages through mp3s and puts 100% on* Ahhh, the olden days.
I absolutely love Topher Grace-why he never hit it bigger than he did I’ll never understand.
And always good to see Sharon Stone.
Isn’t this how she normally looks?
Love Tony Hale. Glad to see he’s doing more work out of TV. As far as the look, it definitely looks like early 90s grunge and the red manic panic look is so much better (and more early 90s) than the orange.
There isn’t anything wrong with the color itself. It just doesn’t suit her. And I think it looks totally weird with the dark roots! Yeah, I’m still not getting the trend “make your hair look like you can’t afford to buy new dye for your roots”… It’s just weird to me. I’ve damaged my hair with too many bleach treatments and now I have to grow it out, strictly forbidden to do anything about the darker roots. It looks awful and it’s going to look even more so as my hair grows longer! My hairdresser says “oh but it will look as if you have an ombre, and that’s so hot!” but I’d never let it look like this if my hair was healthy. I think it’s tacky.
It’s for a movie. Kristen has no choice on the color of her hair. This is not her “hair”, it is the character’s hair.
I have very similar hair right now, I just left some brunette strands here and there :]