For years, she was the target of gossip magazines and paparazzi. Now, she wants to bring the stories of young women onto the screen.
This is the life of Kristen Stewart. #Cannes2022
This is the life of Kristen Stewart. #Cannes2022
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00:00I think to acknowledge the female body has not been done on screen at all.
00:04A true coming-of-age story for a young woman.
00:06I mean, I've tasted moments that feel like me.
00:09I've tasted moments where I feel reflected,
00:13and they're usually smaller films that nobody else has seen
00:16or things that are just not on the forefront of the conversation.
00:22It's easy to throw walls up, and it's funny when you realize that,
00:25like, in protecting yourself, you're doing the opposite.
00:27It's like it's so much better to just sort of be.
00:30♪♪
00:40I think we're a lot alike, anyway, like, in real life.
00:43And then, you know, while shooting, it was easy
00:45because I could really, really relate to her.
00:48And we just had a really great chemistry going,
00:50and it was really comfortable.
00:52Kristen Stewart's my daughter.
00:54You know, mariachi is the word that comes to mind
00:57when I think of Kristen Stewart.
00:58We had a birthday party.
01:00I think it was her 11th birthday party on the set
01:03and panic room.
01:06And we had a mariachi band at a taco bar.
01:08So that makes me think of Kristen Stewart.
01:10♪♪
01:15In the red, right here.
01:17You and one guest.
01:18I remember specifically the first...
01:20I almost passed out the first time I walked into set.
01:22It's so crazy.
01:23I was like...
01:24We did the climax of the movie first.
01:26And, yeah, I was trying to, like, rub myself up
01:28or something.
01:29I literally almost fainted.
01:30♪♪
01:36This question is for Kristen and Robert.
01:38You guys have great chemistry on film, romantically.
01:42Is there any chemistry off-camera?
01:45Are you kidding?
01:46Are you kidding me?
01:47We talked about not going into personal questions,
01:50so why don't we ask the next question?
01:53♪♪
02:06I feel like if you function from a really honest place,
02:09there's really never going to be a time where you look back
02:11and think you've made a mistake.
02:13♪♪
02:23What's up, Kristen?
02:25♪♪
02:53I carry every character I've ever played with me,
02:55and in this case, I had Bella for five years,
02:57and so that's made an enormous mark.
02:59♪♪
03:22Kristen, are you, are you, Rob, do you make, uh...
03:27Oh, no.
03:29Wait, wait, wait, stop.
03:31♪♪
03:40What do you think of the attention that you've been getting
03:42on the statements you've made on who you choose to love?
03:47Uh, what do I think about what people think about that?
03:50Yeah, and the attention that it's gotten.
03:52Um, I mean, I'm, I'm glad that it's gotten attention.
03:55It's, it matters. It's important.
03:57♪♪
04:01It took me so long to make a short film.
04:03Like, I thought that I was going to be, like, the youngest,
04:05I was working with Jodie Foster on Panic Room,
04:07and I was like, I'm going to direct,
04:08I'm going to be the youngest director that, that, like, exists.
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04:45So important to read everything, watch everything,
04:49part every idiosyncrasy, every little nuanced, um,
04:54way that she communicates and inhabits her body.
04:58And then it's really important to forget it.
05:00I couldn't play Princess Diana perfectly.
05:03There was only ever going to be a sort of combination
05:06of the two of us.
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