Kristen Stewart is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Interview magazine … K. Stew’s photospread and coverstory interview was just posted online today so it can be read by all who are interested. Here is Kristen’s coverphoto and some excerpts from her interview with Interview:

On everyone talking about her personal life:
“There’s nothing you can do about it, I don’t talk to anybody about my personal life and maybe that perpetuates it too. But it’s really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.”

On spending lots of time in her hotel:
“That said, the only way for me not to have somebody know where I went the night before is if I didn’t go out at all. So that’s what I’m trading. It depends what mood I’m in. Some nights, I think, “You know what? I don’t care. I’m just going to do what I want to do.” Then the next day I think, “Ugh. Now everyone thinks I’m going out to get the attention.” But it’s like, no, I actually, for a second, thought that maybe I could be like a normal person.”

No lie, she looks fantastic. I like the mixture of high glam and her personal style … she’s still a bit tomboyish but in a really dressy way. After the jump, check out a few of the photos from her Interview photospread …

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Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford is featured in the new issue of Interview magazine wherein he gives a mostly snoozeworthy interview but features in a pretty kick-ass photospread. Chace channels Viggo Morgensen’s character from the 2007 film Eastern Promises in his spread … bouffant and tattoos included:

Nate Archibald, the prep-school poster boy of all things physically right about American youth today, has a terrible father but a family legacy that keeps him afloat in Gossip Girl limos and designer cardigans. Last we saw Nate, he was headed to Columbia University, but not before he and Blair broke up at the prom and he headed off to Europe on a backpacking trip with his former flame Vanessa. Nate Archibald’s real-life counterpart, on the other hand, has an extremely supportive father—and mother for that matter, who during this interview was helping her son move from the apartment he shared with Gossip Girl co-star Ed Westwick to his own two-bedroom in Manhattan’s Financial District—but the 24-year-old actor had no Hollywood legacy to help him coast into the loafers of one of teenage fandom’s dreamiest heartthrobs. In other words, for all his innate good looks, Chace Crawford has spent the past few years working very hard to get where he is today. And this year, the Texas native is refusing to stand still and smile pretty, taking on two projects that he hopes will prove he’s serious about his craft. In the spring he wrapped up director Joel Schumacher’s dark thriller Twelve, in which he plays an impoverished teenage drug dealer who tries to figure out what caused the death of his cousin during the epidemic of a new street drug called Twelve (a drug favored by Upper East Side Gossip Girl types). And after much hoopla over Crawford’s replacing Zac Efron in the upcoming remake of Footloose, he gets a chance to show a little more wild enthusiasm—and breakdancing—than Nate usually summons during those tender walk-and-talk Gossip Girl street scenes. The eternally rich Nate Archibald is slowly growing up, it seems, but Crawford already has. He’s single, still in his early 20s, and he finally has his very own bachelor pad.

If you so desire you can read the Interview interview HERE or you can just check out the interesting bits behind the cut along with the rest of the photos from Chace’s Interview photospread …

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Early last month we saw photos of Twilight star Taylor Lautner on the SoCal set of a photoshoot for Interview magazine and today we get to see the fruits of his labor. Taylor is featured in the new issue of Interview magazine wherein he talks about, of course, his role as Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Here are a few pics from his Interview photospread and a portion of his interview:

When rumors surfaced last year that 17-year-old Taylor Lautner would not appear in the Twilight sequel because he was too physically slight to portray a bookworm-turned-werewolf, a great shriek rose from Fangirl Island. “Noooooo!!” wrote one obsessive on a Twilight discussion board. “omg. Pleezze let Taylor come back,” implored another. Some were more militant: “If they don’t put him in . . . there will be a massive Twilight fan attack!” The producers opted not to mess with their core constituency. While Twilight was ringing up $380 million at the box office and becoming one of the top pop-culture phenomena of the past year, Lautner was busy packing on 30 pounds of -muscle at the gym. His character, Jacob Black, the platonic best friend of heroine Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart), transforms in New Moon from a likable klutz into a member of a wolf pack. Likewise, the film gives Lautner a chance to bust out of more than his shirts, challenging co-star Robert Pattinson’s dominance of both the teen mags and the movie’s monster love-story narrative … Lautner grew up in Michigan and L.A., a youthful karate star who transitioned at the age of 12 from martial arts to acting in benign cinematic family fare like The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. He was excited to talk about shooting New Moon, dirt biking, his new set of muscles, and playing up the sexual tension.

LAUTNER: I don’t know. I should pay more attention to that. I hope so.

Good for Taylor … I’m so glad he got to keep his role. It’s clear that he was really intent on proving to producers that he was up for the challenge of playing the bulked up Jacob Black in the Twilight sequel and, as far as I can tell, it’s mission: accomplished. It really seems that he is growing into a fine strapping young man, isn’t he? This is a great magazine piece … the first of many, I’m sure. The kid seems really down to Earth … I just hope he stays that way. So … thoughts?

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The always fabulous Rufus Wainwright is featured in the new issue of Interview magazine wherein he talks about the opera that he has been composing for the past few years. The piece is titled Prima Donna (of course) and will be making its worldwide debut in Manchester, England this July. Here is Rufus’s Interview magazine photo and his interview with Caryn Ganz for the mag:

After releasing six albums, appearing in a handful of films, and single-handedly resurrecting the songbook of Judy Garland, Rufus Wainwright took the next logical step: He spent three years writing a two-hour opera. But Prima Donna, which will premiere this July at the Manchester International Festival in England, isn’t the only bizarre career move Wainwright has taken lately. He just wrapped up work in Berlin on a musical adaptation of Shakespearean sonnets with director Robert Wilson. On that project, his feelings are mixed: “It was a bit like World War II over there,” he laughs, “which is to be expected, I guess, because that’s where World War II took place.” But Wainwright considers it “a good booster shot” for what he’ll experience once he unveils Prima Donna. The opera’s main character is Régine Saint Laurent, a diva who disappears for six years following a tragedy on the night of a premiere. The story begins on the morning of her return to the stage. Saint Laurent is seizing her moment, much like the 35-year-old Wainwright, a lifelong opera buff who accelerated his artistic plans once his mother became sick with cancer. “Once illness strikes, you realize there’s not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do,” he says. “And there’s no time like the present.”

WAINWRIGHT: Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice—once completely high and once completely sober—and both times were equally wonderful. Opera is above drugs and alcohol and you don’t have to be fucked up to either write it or see it. It’s about transcendentalism. It’s not of this world. So I’d suggest not being fucked up, because you’re just wasting your money.

At last … Rufus Wainwright is ready to unleash his opera upon the world. I’ve been hearing about this opera of his for years, I’m glad to see that he has finally followed thru and that it is ready for release. I must admit, I am no fan of opera. Sure, the music sounds lovely and beautiful but if I am not familiar with the language, I will not have the fortitude to sit thru an entire performance and be content with not knowing what is going on. But, I am a huge Wainwright fan and I have some knowledge of French … this is a show that I would deffo make time to see if I had the chance. I have been following Rufus Wainwright’s career since he released his debut album … I absolutely love his music. I am really curious to hear what this new opera of his sounds like. I wonder if I’ll be able to see the show when David and I go to London later this year. In any event, I wish him much success on this new endeavor … I don’t really know that writing an opera is the way to capture the imagination of the US audience but I know it’s a project that Rufus has held near and dear to his heart for a very long time. Any Rufus Wainwright fans in the hiz?

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Last week we got our first look at Björk on the cover of the new issue of Interview magazine … today we get to see the pics from her Interview photoshoot and read a portion of her coverstory article … behold:

To say that an artist has vision can mean any number of things. It can mean that they have foresight or that they have perceived something that the bulk of us might have missed. It can also mean that they quite literally have visions—psychedelically induced or otherwise. But in Björk’s case, it means that the artist—the one with the vision—has simply dared to imagine something that does not already exist. Which is why vision is as important for a musician as it is for a sculptor or a painter—and why it’s essentialto the art of being Björk. As an artist, one of Björk’s greatest assets has always been her innate understanding of what it means to have vision. What she does as a singer and a songwriter falls somewhere between making records and writing, directing, and starring in her own quasi-folkloric, semi-futuristic, pseudo-theatrical, musical performance-art epics. But embracing her individuality is an impulse from which Björk has rarely ever veered: from the singing that she did with her Icelandic ’80s band the Sugarcubes to her constantly evolving solo career (which began with the release of 1993’s Debut) to her starring role in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000) and her collaboration with her longtime partner, Matthew Barney, on the 2005 film Drawing Restraint 9, amongst a remarkably diverse array of other smart, inventive, and inspiringly far-flung undertakings. In fact, some of Björk’s work has been so extremely—defiantly—original, that attempting to explain it or analyze it would seem almost misguided. That’s because with Björk, there is no such thing as an extracurricular activity. Singing, acting, dressing, art-making, even cavorting on a boat in Central America, are all part of an intricately woven fabric that runs through a multitude of creative worlds, emotional worlds, brave new worlds, and sometimes otherworldly worlds. Of course, there is also such a thing as revision, and that process of reviewing and re-evaluating is one that Björk has undertaken in compiling her new two-CD, two-DVD box set Voltaïc (Nonesuch). The collection includes multiple live recordings of songs from her last two records—2004’s Medúlla and 2007’s Volta—along with assorted remixes and videos, but which are performed in different contexts: The first setconsists of a studio session Björk recorded before she began her tour to support Volta in late 2007; the second features renditions of the songs re-created in a church in her native Reykjavik; and the third captures a live performance in Paris near the end of the tour, exactly one year later.

The article/interview is a nice, long read and continues HERE but I’m sure it will only be interesting to those of you who are fans of Björk and her prolific body of work (trust me, if you are not familiar with Björk’s work, you should seek her out IMMEDIATELY … her talents are just mindblowing). While I am thrilled that she is releasing the box set Voltaïc, I am really anxious to hear new music as well. I suspect that Björk will be releasing a new album very soon … in the meantime, I think her box set will do much to satisfy her fan’s burning desire for more Björkness.

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Bjork.com has been updated with the news that Björk is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Interview magazine. Featured with other “assorted visionaries”, Björk is highlighted by photos from Inez & Vinoodh and M/M and an interview conducted by Mathias Augustyniak & Michael Amzalag. Here is her colorful cover:

At this point, there is no other information available from this issue of Interview other than it will be “out in the next few days”. It’s been far too long since we’ve seen Björk on the scene. I really loved her Icelandic documentary Náttúra (which is now available on iTunes) as well as her last album Volta. Hopefully this new interview with Interview will hint at a new album? I can’t wait to see more!!

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Channing Tatum, who you may be aware has a new film called Fighting opening in theaters tomorrow, is featured in the new issue of Interview magazine lookin’ all kinds of hot. Here are a couple photos from Channing’s photospread for Interview along with a portion of his interview for the mag with Marlon Wayans:

The story of Channing Tatum seems to reinforce the validity of the spectacular arc of life in movies. Take, for example, this brief rundown of essential plot points so far: He is born in a small town (Cullman, Alabama); he overcomes his early outsider status to become a popular kid (and even winds up playing football); he gets into hip-hop dancing (after seeing a guy do head spins at a local club); he is discovered on the street (by a modeling agent); he gets cast in a critically acclaimed independent film (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, 2006); he lands a part in a big studio film (Step Up, 2006); and he is tapped for unmitigated superstardom (at least a lot of people are betting on it). It doesn’t hurt that Tatum is—and, by all accounts, has always been—very good-looking. But watching him onscreen, it’s clear that his face and his good luck aren’t his most important assets. In his brief career, Tatum has shown a special aptitude for playing highly physical characters whose actions often articulate more than their words … The next few months are busy ones for the 29-year-old Tatum. He recently reunited with Montiel for Fighting, a film about underground grapplers, and he also plays Pretty Boy Floyd in Michael Mann’s highly anticipated John Dillinger film, Public Enemies, which is headlined by Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. But the Hollywood industrial complex seems to have bet the farm on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Tatum plays the indomitable soldier Duke, who—as any fan of the ’80s cartoon series can tell you—is the embodiment of all that is right and good, and the unquestionable star of the show. The film co-stars Dennis Quaid, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Christopher Eccleston, and Tatum’s interviewer here, Marlon Wayans:

WAYANS: Is there any actor whose career really inspires you?
TATUM: Man, there are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don’t think I can try to follow anyone. I mean, if you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt—to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they’ve gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they’ve made, would be the end-all for me.

Oh man, I love me some Channing. You gotta agree that his movies are more about how the action speaks rather than how the man speaks himself but, as I’ve said all along, I don’t mind one bit. There is much more of the interview to be read HERE and after the jump, check out a couple more photos from his Interview photospread — trust me, you don’t want to miss these pics …

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