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"Even if people hated it and it ended up being
like a sort of misfire, we tried the best we could," said
Stewart. "This wasn't something I could pass up. I had to give
it a shot."
"Spencer," arriving in U.S. movie theaters on Thursday, is
directed by Chile's Pablo Larrain who has described it as an
imaginative portrait of Diana rather than a biography.
It starts with the words "A fable from a true tragedy."
The movie is set during the 1991 Christmas holidays at Queen
Elizabeth's Sandringham estate when Diana has all but given up
on her marriage to Prince Charles.
It portrays her as increasingly isolated from the rest of the
royal family and longing to break free from rules she sees as
suffocating.
Charles and Diana divorced in 1996 and Diana died in a Paris car
crash a year later.
"We absorbed her the best that we possibly could, read
everything, looked at everything. I emotionally connected with
her. I love her. I'm not alone in that. She is loveable. She is
very easy to feel protective over," Stewart, 31, said.
"There are things that we just can't know but we'll be endlessly
curious about," she added.
Films and television portrayals of Princess Diana have not
always been well received. Newcomer Emma Corrin won awards for
playing a younger version of Diana in "The Crown," but the Naomi
Watts film "Diana" in 2013 got poor reviews. The new Broadway
musical "Diana" was roasted by critics.
Stewart's performance, on the other hand, has won rave reviews
and could bring the actress her first Oscar nomination next
year. The Guardian described her performance as "entirely
compelling," while the Hollywood Reporter said Stewart was
"incandescent."
(Writing by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)
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