Kristen Stewart has lately been protesting that her outwardly sulky, I-vant-to-be-alone demeanor is just a mask for deep sensitivity, but perhaps it’s all been method preparation for her upcoming role in On The Road: Stewart has signed on to play Marylou, Dean Moriarty’s first wife, in Walter Salles’ long-in-the-making adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s bible for the restless and disenfranchised. Of course, as anyone who’s read the book can tell you (see also: anyone who’s ever been a 16-year-old boy), Marylou is different from the sort of characters usually associated with Stewart—Kerouac describes her early on as a sweet but outwardly dumb (though surprisingly sharp and sexually manipulative) country girl, and a “pretty blonde with immense ringlets of hair like a sea of golden tresses”—so it’ll be interesting to see how much Salles allows Stewart to make the character her own.