Panic Room Star Dares Not Speak
In a rare move, both Showtime and Lifetime will simultaneously air the film-festival favorite Speak on Sept. 5 at 9 pm/ET. Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak stars Kristen Stewart as a high-school freshman so traumatized by being date-raped that she literally retreats into a mute, almost wordless world. Taking on a role so reactive and lacking in dialogue was, in a way, familiar ground for Stewart, who was holed up and terrorized with on-screen mom Jodie Foster, in 2002's Panic Room. "In that sense, in that I didn't have a whole lot of dialogue, the films are very similar," she tells TVGuide.com. "But really and truly, I could not have been in two more different movies. From the people
