Kristen Stewart Gets Major Role in ‘Lie Down in Darkness’

Kristen Stewart beats out Jennifer Lawrence

Kristen Stewart may be unlucky in love, but she has all the luck when it comes to work. According to Vulture, the 22-year-old actress has landed a role in ‘Lie Down in Darkness’, an adaptation of William Styron’s gritty 1951 novel of the same name.

Kristen will play Peyton Loftis, a young woman in 1950s Virginia desperate to escape the confines of her extremely dysfunctional home life.

Interesting news though: Kristen beat out ‘Hunger Games’ actress Jennifer Lawrence.

Meanwhile, Summit Entertainment, the production company behind the Twilight, has decided to not comment on Kristen private life.

The actress cheated on her boyfriend of three years Robert Pattinson with her ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ director, Rupert Sanders. Her is married and has two children.