Venice Film Festival 2021: Kristen Stewart attends premiere for Princess Diana biopic Spencer

Kristen Stewart seemed in great spirits at the premiere for her Princess Diana biopic Spencer at Venice Film Festival on Friday. 

The actress, 31, was clad in Chanel FW21 Couture for the red carpet event and turned heads in the mint green satin tunic layered over lace trimmed trousers.  

The Twilight star accessorised the Chanel couture piece with a choker necklace and teamed the look with white heels. 

Venice Film Festival 2021: Kristen Stewart donned a mint green Chanel co-ord as she goofed around on the red carpet at the premiere for Princess Diana biopic Spencer on Friday 

Her eagerly-awaited portrayal of Princess Diana will be played to audiences for the first time this week as Spencer premieres at the 78th Venice Film Festival.

The first trailer was released last week, with Kristen’s take on the late Royal’s accent heard for the first time.

Set in 1991 and set for release on November 5, the short clip saw the Twilight star roaming the grounds of Sandringham Estate at Christmas time as her marriage to Prince Charles breaks down in the wake of divorce and infidelity rumours.

Loving life: The actress, 31, was clad in Chanel FW21 Couture for the red carpet event and turned heads in the mint green satin tunic layered over lace trimmed trousers

Spitting image: Kristen (left) is taking on the role of Princess Diana (right) in the new biopic

The film’s logline reads: ‘The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate.

‘There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. Spencer is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.’ 

The script, written by English screenwriter Steven Knight, who has also written Peaky Blinders, follows the moments when Diana realises she needs to ‘veer from a path that puts her in-line to one day be Queen’.

Director Pablo Larraín explained that the drama will not delve into Diana’s tragic death, but instead focus on her relationship with her Royal husband and the love she has for children Prince William and Prince Harry.

The filmmaker said: ‘We decided to get into a story about identity, and around how a woman decides somehow, not to be the Queen… 

‘She’s a woman who, in the journey of the movie, decides and realises that she wants to be the woman she was before she met Charles.’

Following the trailer’s release last month, fans hailed Kristen’s performance as the late Royal and called for the actress to be given an Oscar.

She utters just two words in the short preview, responding: ‘They don’t,’ when told the press know everything in one scene, but that was clearly enough to send fans wild. 

They declared that the American star’s British accent was ‘spot on’, while her mannerisms and characterisation of the late Princess were also accurate. 

When news of the film was first announced, Twitter was swarmed with people questioning Kristen’s casting in the role of Diana.

Pablo quickly defended his decision to cast the star as the Princess of Wales, telling Deadline: ‘Kristen is one of the greatest actors around today.

‘Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile an ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need.’

‘The combination of those elements made me think of her. The way she responded to the script and how she is approaching the character, it’s very beautiful to see. I think she’s going to do something stunning and intriguing at the same time.’

The Venice Film Festival began on Wednesday and is running until 11 September.

The event is the world’s oldest film festival. It is known as one of the ‘Big Three’ film festivals, alongside the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.

The international movie competition is directed by Alberto Barbera and organised by La Biennale Di Venezia. 

Spencer is set for theatrical release on November 5