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Kristen Stewart portrays Joan Jett in The Runaways and Bella Swan in New Moon.

But the actress' next role ought to bring her more attention than those two combined:

As a stripper in Welcome to the Rileys, Stewart will take it all off.

"It's an independent movie that nobody would normally see," Kristen told Star Magazine, "and now it's like, 'Oh, let's go see 'Bella' in this stripper movie. It'll be crazy!'"

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She's right. The film centers on Kristen's character, as she helps to reunite a couple (James Gandolfini and nominee Melissa Leo) that has had trouble since the death of their young daughter.

No release date has been set yet.

With all the Eclipse casting news going around these days - John Huston and Catalina Sandino Moreno were each added to the movie in the past two days - it's easy to forget that New Moon is actually the next Twilight Saga installment to his theaters.

The movie comes out on November 20.

Two of the film's stars, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, cover the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. Inside, they dish on the highly-anticipated Twilight sequel:

Stewart, on their on-screen chemistry: "We have that [best friend] relationship. It’s lamely cute.”

Lautner, on bulking up to play Jacob: “My body fat got so low that we actually needed to increase it a little bit. My trainer would be like, ‘Go have a huge milk shake just so I can get a thousand calories into your body.’”

Stewart, on making Twilight: “We needed to make something commercial but stay true to the book. We didn’t have enough money. It was all very impulsive, and that’s what I love about that movie."

Twilight was one of 2008's biggest hits.

New Moon will begin shooting any minute now.

And they've already announced a release date for Eclipse, the third film in this vampire-based franchise.

But what about Breaking Dawn, author Stephenie Meyer's fourth and final book in the series?

Kristen Stewart told E! that she's confident it will eventually hit the big screen, as well.

"We all really hope there is going to be a number four," Stewart said. I'm pretty confident that the fans aren’t going to all of a sudden lose interest. The only case that a fourth one wouldn’t be made is if all of a sudden people stopped caring, and I really don't think that's going to happen."

Neither do we.

After a few weeks of controversy, Taylor Lautner has been confirmed as returning to the role of Jacob Black for the upcoming Twilight sequel, New Moon.

And co-star Kristen Stewart couldn't be happier about it.

"I'm so glad they didn't have to find somebody else; we already had him!" the actress told MTV News. "I didn't understand all the deliberation on [whether to bring him back]. But now that it's set, we can all rest."

As for the 26 pounds of muscle Lautner has packed on to play a more bulked up version of Jacob, Stewart likes what she has seen so far:

"He's really buff! He definitely is. It took him a lot of time."

The portrayer of Bella also had praise for Chris Weitz, who is taking over direction of the franchise from Catherine Hardwicke.

"Chris is — on top of him being a really sweet guy — he is entirely devoted," Stewart said. "And he's very clearly not doing the movie just because it's the next big thing. He really likes it a lot."

E! caught up with Kristen Stewart at the Sundance Film Festival.

The actress dishes on one of the event's most buzzed-about movies, Adventureland, before getting into a few New Moon details...

The Twilight stars shone brightly in London last night.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pose here on the red carpet for the overseas event. It looks like the actress forget the bottom half of her dress...

From a love for vampires to a love for rock music.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Stewart has signed on to portray music icon Joan Jett in a biopic about the rocker's 1970s all-girl band, The Runaways.

Before disbanding over management and financial issues, The Runaways churned out hits such as "Cherry Bomb."

According to The Hollywood Reports, the movie will follow Jett and Currie as teenagers "to their dissolution and disillusionment."

Twilight star Kristen Stewart is excited about the recently-announced sequel to her her movie: New Moon, which will be based on the best-selling novel by the same name begins shooting in March.

"A lot of the book takes place in Italy, and I think we're going to get to go to Italy, which is so cool," Stewart said. "For a while there, they were like, Oh, we don't know if we have the money, but now I think we may have the money!"

Kristen Stewart says her job is done.

The actress claims she doesn't worry about fans' reaction to Twilight. While that seems difficult to digest, here's a look at what else the rising star had to say when asked about the pressure she faces in the movie:

Do you feel any pressure that this better live up to the hype?
I suppose so. It is when people ask me that. But when people don't ask, I don't think about it. My job is done. If it bombs, then I get to go back to doing what I'm used to doing. Small movies that I get the opportunity to do. If it's really successful as everyone thinks, then it will make it so much easier for me to do projects that I feel really passionate about but won't get money. Like, maybe now I can finance a movie. I'm proud of the movie, so at the end of the day, it's fine.

Did you find a strong connection with Bella from the outset?
I feel like every girl who reads this book projects herself onto her. And in this case it's a really self conscious role for me because I didn't have a really distinct character. She wasn't entirely different from me. She basically could have been me. I overanalyze things a bit more than she does. She's pretty self-assured. I identify with her in that she doesn't think she's anyt

Kristen Stewart stars as Bella Swan in next week's Twilight.

In the most recent issue of Teen Vogue, the actress talks about this beloved character, a recently relocated high school junior who falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson):

“Bella’s a very relatable girl. She inhabits qualities that most girls have, even if it’s not on the surface… What I love about the story and what puts it on a different level is that it’s ‘chemical’…there’s nobody else for either of them. Period.”

Bella and Edward dangerous flirt in Twilight.