Kristen Stewart Not Opposed to 'Wanted 2'

We thought it was an equally good and bad idea to lasso Kristen Stewart for Wanted 2. The good idea is that she might (might) draw a younger audience, siphoning from the biggest teen and young adult franchise last year...at least on opening weekend. The bad is that, when it comes to action movies, she's no Angelina Jolie. Few could hope to be. But all in all, it sounded like idle gossip; Jolie bolted the project and it was on the rocks, and Stewart's The Runaways was in theaters (not that anybody noticed), and actors and actresses see their names pop up for all sorts of poorly fitting movie roles. Turns out there was more to it than some gossip columnist talking it up. "Would I do it? Yes," Stewart tells Virgin. "Definitely, as long as it was good and I mean, it's really exciting to see that could be an opportunity." That sounds like it's almost a confirmation that someone has approached her to talk about the film. However, the timeline, if I remember correctly, includes the script not being finished or close to it at the beginning of the year and Jolie leaving the film a couple months after that, which means that there had to be re-writing, most likely of an unfinished script. So any discussions Stewart and the producers or James McAvoy have had were likely very informal because there wasn't much to show her. But she's still excited by the prospect. "Wanted was a great movie, like, James McAvoy makes that movie different than most other action movies because he's a real guy, and I feel like most action movies don't have that," she says. "So if it had that element, definitely. But I wouldn't just want to be in a mindless, blow-up movie." Because one mindless franchise is enough, presumably.