Kristen Stewart: 'Pole dancing hurts'

Kristen Stewart has revealed that she attained many bruises while impersonating a stripper in her new movie Welcome To The Rileys.

The Twilight star, who was cast as a 16-year-old stripper who is taken in by a married man, has admitted that despite getting repeatedly injured during rehearsals, she enjoyed dancing in a "weird self-hating" type of way.

The 19-year-old actress told E! Online: "I did some pole dancing. I got bruises all over my legs. I tore myself up doing it. It sucked.

"The more I saw it, the more I wanted it. It was like a weird self-hating kind of thing."

As for Stewart's pole dancing performance, director Jake Scott said: "She was terrified. The strip club we shot in was really a club, and it really was that dirty and really that tough. But she killed it."

The filmmaker also insisted that Stewart be trained with a professional stripper to achieve maximum authenticity on screen.

Scott continued: "She's like one of the best in the business. So she was really reliable and didn't do drugs or anything like that, but she was able to introduce Kristen to girls that were. She was able to put her in that world."

Stewart added: "The cool thing about my character is she is not sultry and she is not sexy."

Welcome To The Rileys, starring Stewart and James Gandolfini, is currently playing at the Sundance Film Festival.