Kristen Stewart: 'I Like To Be Led'

Kristen Stewart has revealed she picks movie roles which are nothing like herself because she loves getting the chance to be “completely different”.

The ‘Twilight’ star is known for her moody surly persona and claimed that playing confident characters helps her to come out of her shell.

“I love to play characters that are so completely different to myself,” she told The Independent.

The 22 year-old, who plays a princess in latest movie offering, ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ went on to confess that despite being a huge A list star she lacks confidence. “I am so self-aware, so self-conscious.”

“There are people in life who lead the way and run after things, and then there are the observers and followers. I am one of those people; I’d be latching onto the leader,” she went on.

We are not entirely convinced that Kristen steps that far from her comfort zone for her most famous role as Bella Swan in the 'Twilight Saga'.

Brunette tomboy who is head over heels for Robert Pattinson?

Can’t be too much of a stretch for her.

Cannes 2012: Kristen Stewart 'I love scaring myself'

Kristen Stewart said she had more fun in a month of shooting Cannes entry On The Road - and a role full of sex, drugs and nudity - than in all the Twilight films put together

The actress, 22, has complained in the past of feeling desperately uncomfortable with the level of fame that comes with playing Bella Swan in the Twilight franchise.

Making On The Road, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel, was a completely different experience and one that she relished, as she and her fellow cast members were able to film in Canada without the frenzy that accompanies a Twilight shoot.

“I’m usually pretty self-conscious about running around town with my face hanging out but I didn’t care at all because I was with these guys,” she said.

"I got to live more in those four weeks than typically for me in my normal life - like in a lifetime. So it was great.”

Stewart plays Marylou, the teen wife of Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) in Kerouac’s chronicle of the free-spirited Beat Generation.