At 33 she is already a veteran of the industry and has gone through all the stages, including that of child prodigy when at 11 she played Jodie Foster’s daughter in David Fincher’s Panic Room, and also that of the super youth star, at the time when he had to escape the hordes of fans with his co-star in Twilight, Robert Pattinson, with whom he was in a romantic relationship. She has also participated in the awards race, with Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her compelling work as Princess Diana in Spencer.
But now Kristen Stewart is looking to take a new turn in her career, expanding her efforts as a film director and trying to solidify her status as an icon for the gay community.
With the support of a personal fortune estimated at 65 million euros, the actress has taken all the time in the world to achieve it. Following that precept that says that you should never use your own money to finance a film, Stewart has been trying for five years now to launch The Chronology of Water, the film that will mark her debut as a feature film director and which is an adaptation of a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, a former swimmer who detailed her experiences as a bisexual woman there.
The project, for which Kristen co-wrote the script with Andy Mingo, is advanced enough to have the support of Ridley Scott’s production company, who already participated in his short film Come Swim, screened at the 2017 Sundance Festival and It has already been defined that the British Imogen Poots will be the protagonist.
Although everything seems to indicate that the film will soon be a reality, he still must overcome some obstacles, which has led him to announce in a long interview with Variety that if necessary he will retire from acting until he manages to film that film. However, the meeting with the most important film magazine in the United States was held shortly before the start of Sundance in January, which he attended to accompany the presentation of his last two films as the protagonist.
In a good sign that today she is light years away from her time as a studio favorite, in the first of them, Love Me, she plays a buoy lost in the sea that, thanks to artificial intelligence, connects with a satellite that surrounds to Earth, played by the brand new winner of the Emmy and the Golden Globe for Beef, Steven Yeun.
But it is her other film at Sundance, Love Lies Bleeding (whose title could be translated as Love Bleeds) in which she has placed all her expectations, because as she explains in the interview with Variety, it is the one that best represents who she is today. There she plays Lou, the lesbian gym manager who in the late 1980s leads a boring life in New Mexico.
Everything changes when one day Jackie (Katy O’Brian), muscular and masculine, comes to do exercises, and a passion arises between them that is vividly reproduced on screen. When Lou’s sister Beth (Jena Malone) is beaten by her husband, JJ (Dave Franco), her lovers team up to teach her a lesson, with consequences greater than they imagined.
Stewart, who publicly assumed his sexual identity in 2017 during a monologue on the most popular program on American television, Saturday Night Live and five years later took his girlfriend, screenwriter Dylan Meyer, to the Oscar gala, admitted in front of Variety who is very proud to be an example for the LGBTQ community: “I am constantly approached by women who tell me that they, too, kissed a girl in college. That’s why I want them to see me as part of that team, because we need each other,” she stated.
The author of the article, Adam B.Vary, who is openly gay, also interviewed Jodie Foster, who, when talking about Stewart, whom she loves like a daughter, analyzed her own decision to come out when receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2013 Golden Globes gala and her determination to play a lesbian woman in Nyad, the film for which Annette Bening is nominated for an Oscar: “I feel like there is something generational in her attitude. She managed to do something that in my case I never believed she would be capable of,” she confessed.
