Kristen Stewart feels as though she developed a close bond with Princess Diana (opens in new tab) during the research and filming of Spencer (opens in new tab).

After all, the late Princess Diana inspired compassion, not curiosity, in the actress playing her. "If I could go back in time or bring her back for a moment and ask her something, I wouldn't," Stewart told Vanity Fair (opens in new tab) in a new interview. I would just say, 'Honey, can I hang out with you for a minute? She needed it so much."

Stewart also explained that when she took on the role of Diana, she anticipated the intense media scrutiny and photographers that would follow her, and felt strongly that she had to protect both herself and the woman she played. I felt strongly that I had to protect Princess Diana," she said. I was like, 'Screw you. I developed a very genuine protective relationship with this person that I obviously had never met."

The actress also spoke about the late Princess Diana's frankly disturbing treatment during her time in the royal family. She analyzed the hairs on her pillow, looked at the color of them, and said, "Oh, she was alone last night." And then they would talk about the details with other staff members as if they had nothing to do with it at all," she said.

But Stewart also recognized the paradox of such a factual inclination to create the real Diana on screen. 'It's also odd to talk about these details, and I'm so grateful that I'm sitting here and that these details exist,' she said. 'In fact, by attacking her character, these stories only reveal the lowest circumstances under which she lived. Now I think, 'Good, everyone tell your (Diana's) story. It just confirms how good she is'"

. [It is clear that the filming of "Spencer (opens in new tab)" was an intense emotional experience for the actress, who previously described it as "creepy (opens in new tab)" and admitted to "Vanity Fair" that she was embarrassed to cry at a recent screening of the film in Venice 'It's very rare that I'm moved by my own movies, but ...... I was shattered in the end." If I had been in that theater, they would have criticized me: ...... (But) it wasn't my performance that moved me. Rather it was the entire experience of creating the film that moved her. I've never had that experience," she concluded. She concluded.