Shadowing Practice: Kristen Stewart Talks Getting Into Character For Twilight, Spencer, And More | Who What Wear - Learn English Speaking with Video
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My favorite thing is a puffy sleeve.
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I don't know why I don't do it every day.
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Hi, I'm Kristen Stewart, and ready?
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This is from Twilight One.
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It rains a lot up there in forks, and so I have glovies and a big fall of hair that's not mine.
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Wow, he looks weird.
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This is funny.
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What else?
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so like Bella she's just not much of a dress girl especially in Twilight One the sweater
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and the sneakers kind of made it like what I'm not barely wearing a dress I loved
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that night it felt like my prom I was 17
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and I wasn't in high school so yeah that's a visceral memory thank you for
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presenting it to me now here's Bella she's getting married
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or maybe she's just gotten married I think you take pictures after the ceremony it's funny look at
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that arch I'm trying so hard I'm like hi I love that dress so much.
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I remember getting into it felt like getting into a real wedding dress
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because I was like being hidden in some room with like heaters and I was like, it's too hot in here.
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My makeup's melting off.
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And they're like, well, we're not going to be ready for 30 minutes.
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And I was like, but I'm ready now.
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I was like, well, here we go.
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This is the time that I can play the bride.
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It's a nice memory.
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And he looks great.
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Yeah, I think if I were to ever do like a classic wedding dress, this is kind of the one.
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This is the picture.
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I'm not going to do it.
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But I got to do it.
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And I do really, I appreciate that.
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So this is a photograph of myself and Jodie Foster in the Panic Room.
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And I've recently watched this movie.
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It's really good.
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I wore the same pajamas for eight months.
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I turned 11 years old on this movie.
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I got my period on this movie.
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My pajamas were red.
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That was a prescient choice.
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Clothes were great.
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She's so kind of like austere and like sad, but clearly going to get her like groove and power
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and mojo back and the kids like you can curse
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and you can drink coca -cola and have pizza
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and be happy I have very fond memories of
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that tiny little cell we were in it for eight months
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wearing the same clothes just to speak to the clothes
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because that's what I'm supposed to do I mean they are like really defining
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and perfect for these two ladies I watched it recently
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and I was like there's something distinct going on here
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and it might be hard to put your finger on
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but I just was like oh I know who these who
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these people are Michael Kaplan designed this one he is also a legend.
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Well done.
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This is from Adventureland.
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I was such a little derpy derpist and I could barely wear my own skin, let alone these clothes.
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I loved making this movie so much.
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I still have my Games, Games, Games shirt. So fun.
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I mean, the 80s and the 90s, they're back in full force and the early 2000s.
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Yeah, this was so fun wearing a t -shirt in the pool.
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That's such a distinct era of time where you're wearing t
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-shirts into pools where you're not just removing the items wearing
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a bathing suit somehow this was the sexy option this was
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he's really gonna like me in this sopping wet black t
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-shirt here we are in Spencer in the wedding dress this
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was shot on a Saturday we shot five day weeks
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and I was really unprepared for like the 12 -hour day
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that we did of every single costume in the whole movie
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traipsing over every inch of exterior grounds I could barely breathe it was
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so cold and i was so nervous to hold
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that dress up with my body made me
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so emotional it actually is quite different to the one
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that she wore because it looked different on me
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and we couldn't have the whole big train thing
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and somehow it got closer than the truth a really good designer knows how to dress the human being
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and not lose sight of that human being
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while telling a greater story this was so fun this is when i got to play joan jett in the runaways
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But me and Dakota, who played Cherie Curry, got to play around and take all these photos before we started shooting
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because we know them in images more than we do footage.
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She's just one of the most intrinsically herself motherfuckers it's ever been and clothes mattered, fit mattered.
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My body's different.
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I'm looking at this going, God, you could have done better.
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I look at this and I'm like, well, I need an hour to discuss the memory flood
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and the sort of negotiation between things that you're proud of
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and things that you could have done better
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and then also just sort of letting it be what it was
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and i was so young and i love joan so much
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and i hope she's great and hi what's up
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if you see this snow white
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and the huntsman was the physical feat the armor made me
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so physically incapable it was really fun to put this stuff
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together colleen atwood is a genius beautiful designer the clothes evolved in this really cool way
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that on big movies usually they're not allowed to degrade and like
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feels kind of stuffy or even
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when you do make a choice to like rip the dress
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off at the bottom it feels like there's a little tear already
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and ready to break away like her her clothes are lived in really substantiated the idea
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that i was playing the please cut this out fairest of them all Yeah, I just had the best time.
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The sword, the shield is so cool.
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Everything was really tight in like all of the imagery with a tree and sort of like, you know, who she was, who this girl actually was as a human being kind of hopefully came through in the clothes
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and didn't feel like worn territory, like sort of like revitalizing something that we all already loved okay yeah
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so personal shopper was all about the clothes too
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and about it being not about the clothes in this weird
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conflicted way i was playing someone in such deep grief
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and like having such an existential spiral into an identity crisis
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so the clothes being something that she could put on
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and find stimulus through
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or kind of even like a little bit of like feeling like she might be alive
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and not dead through uh was was fun i i couldn't see how beautiful everything was until i watched the movie.
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And when I watched it, I was like, oh man, you guys are really up to something.
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So this is from Seaburg.
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I've worked with Michael Wilkinson a few times.
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He did some of the last, I think he did the last two Twilight movies.
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I was so nervous to play this part.
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She has an elegance and a sort of poise.
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While being quite radical and wild and cool and hot, she was required to be such a lady then.
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She's someone that I've coveted as an actress
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and kind of just an icon for a long time
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so him putting me in the right clothes it gave me the confidence to inhabit space on that set.
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I miss you Michael you're great at what you do thank
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you for making me better in this movie where I played Gene Seberg.
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This is Love Lies Bleeding.
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Olga Mills is the costume designer for this and she is somebody
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that I want to steal and keep in my proverbial pocket.
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She's an incredible costumer she understands texture and tone and intonation and everything that everything implies without having to be super exact.
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Like you can tell her a feeling and she gives you the right pair of jeans.
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We figured out that I was, my character was definitely a soft shoed person.
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She came in with a lot of boot ideas and belts and like leather.
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And I was like, I think she's a bit of a nice guy.
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She was like, oh, soft shoe.
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I was like, yeah, I think that's what I mean.
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Choosing the right jeans.
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You know, it's like so much more than that.
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I don't want to make time here.
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Let's go.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Kristen Stewart Talks Getting Into Character For Twilight, Spencer, And More”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: clothes, dress, movie. This video has 132 sentences and 1437 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:05. The speaker talks fast, about 203 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| designer noun | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession. |
| distinct adjective | /dɪˈstɪŋkt/ | Capable of being perceived very clearly. |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| costume noun | /ˈkɑsˌt(j)um/ | A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people. |
| jeans noun | /d͡ʒiːnz/ | A pair of trousers made from denim cotton. |
| tone noun | /ˈtəʊn/ | A specific pitch. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
| actress noun | /ˈæk.tɹɪs/ | A female who performs on the stage or in films. |
| bath noun | /bɑːθ/ | A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. |
| legend noun | /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənd/ | The life story of a saint (such stories are often embellished, but any kind is called a legend). |
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| belt noun | /ˈbɛlt/ | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. |
| ceremony noun | /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/ | A ritual, with religious or cultural significance. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| break away verb | To leave suddenly. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| play around verb | To behave in a silly, childish, or irresponsible way. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm not going to do it.
- You know, it's like so much more than that.
- I don't want to make time here.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being hidden · was shot · was really unprepared |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've recently watched · it's ever been · I've worked |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 28 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, bath /bɑːθ/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shoe /ˈʃu/, shield /ˈʃild/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, existential /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: ceremony /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, proverbial /pɹəˈvɜɹb.iː.əl/, revitalize /ɹiˈvaɪt(ə)ˌlaɪz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cloth, designer, distinct.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.