Kristen Stewart: Welcome to the Rileys at Sundance

Kristen Stewart’s Welcome to the Rileys where she co-stars with James Gandolfini of Soprano’s fame has been getting some really fantastic reviews.

USA Today said:

“Though she’s playing young, this is no innocent story. Her character, sometimes calling herself “Mallory,” sometimes “Allison,” is vulgarly sexual, coming on to Gandolfini when he stops into a strip club on a business trip, though he is immediately turned off by her obvious youth and vulnerability. Instead, he pays her to let him try to save her — but fines her for cursing, and tries to get her to leave her dangerous and degrading line of work.

In her first scene, Stewart is wearing knee-high fishnets, a bra that isn’t much of one, and a red tartan skirt as she lunges and thrusts from the stage. It may sound provocative, but her character is so obviously wounded, both emotionally and physically, judging by the many bruises on her body, that it quickly becomes awful instead of enticing.

Gandolfini wants to throw his coat over her, and the audience does, too.”  Read the rest here.

Kristen talked to E! about the the Welcome to the Riley’s experience here and to MTV below.