The 21-year-old is best known for her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight movies but is taking on a different character for her new film as she plays the female lead in Snow White and the Huntsman.
Asked what it's like to play the character, she said to Box Office magazine: 'Not to trivialise it at all, but it's hard to play an action hero who is also the most compassionate person on earth.
'You can't hate. You epitomise bleeding hearts, so how the f**k do you do an action movie like that? She is sort of the last shred of hope for her land. She has this ethereal, spiritual connection to her people - she really feels things - and so it's like we don't really feel empathy.'