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Kristen Stewart, 34, reveals crush on ‘hot’ co-star, 73, in Love Lies Bleeding-James Mottram-Entertainment – Metro
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Kristen Stewart stars alongside Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding (Picture: Crack in the Earth LLC/A24)
‘How do I feel about bodies?’ asks Kristen Stewart, sipping her water and looking the picture of millennial health.
‘I could never really relate to people hitting the gym constantly so they can be the hottest that they can possibly be. It’s just not something I’ve ever really been attracted to. It’s weird to work out like that so obsessively. But then also I have become kind of obsessed with working out…so I get it. It’s like an adrenaline rush…you get into it.’
The petite Stewart – who found fame as Bella Swan in the Twilight films before gaining an Oscar nod for her Princess Diana in Spencer – doesn’t exactly look like a gym bunny; rather, this newfound love of toning up has come from her new movie, Love Lies Bleeding. This rip-roaring thriller sees her play Lou, the manager of a New Mexico gym who falls for female bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian); it’s a relationship that soon goes south when they become embroiled with Lou’s grimy criminal family.
‘It does feel good to know your own strength,’ continues Stewart, 34, when we meet in Berlin’s famed five-star Adlon Hotel. ‘It feels nice to inhabit every inch of your body. I think in our movie, I play someone who tries to take up as little space as she possibly can. She’s almost ceasing to exist. And then she watches this woman roll through town larger than life, audaciously and unabashedly not denying herself.’ Before long, the dead bodies start piling up as an incident of domestic violence leads to revenge and retribution.
Stewart, who identifies as bisexual, is delighted that crime stories with a Queer perspective are getting made, with Love Lies Bleeding following the recent lesbian caper comedy Drive-Away Dolls starring Margaret Qualley. ‘We’re inviting people to find voice and volition,’ she says. ‘And we’re trying to create space for alternative perspectives. But we also function within an industry that wants to make money. And it’s hard to get anything off the ground that hasn’t been proven…it’s really hard to be the first of anything.’
Stewart, who famously dated her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson for several years, admits to having a bit of a crush on Ed Harris, the 73-year-old four-time Oscar-nominee and star of The Truman Show, who plays Lou’s pony-tailed father, the nefarious owner of a gun range. ‘He really doesn’t disappoint. He is a soulful and poetic Marlboro Man. He is the coolest s**t kicker. He’s such a dude. He’s such a man, like so masculine, and, like, hot. And nice and truly aware of everyone on set.’
Love Lies Bleeding is a rip-roaring thriller (Picture: Crack in the Earth LLC)
Kristen is a particularly big fan of Hollywood icon Ed Harris stars in the thriller (Picture: FilmMagic)
Kristen has been earning glowing reviews for her latest project (Picture: GC Images)
According to Stewart, Harris was initially uncertain about the film, co-written and directed by British filmmaker Rose Glass (Saint Maud). ‘Admittedly [he] didn’t really like the script, said that he had played the part before but just thought that Rose was kind of such a freak…he was like, “I want to help you do whatever you’re doing. But I don’t really get this one.” And then afterwards, recently, he was like, “Well, this one really came together. I’m shocked!” But he’s just so nice. He straight up underlines the idea that he was providing a service…and ultimately, he does like the movie. He really does like it.’
Set at the tail-end of the 1980s, the film also takes on the hot-button issue of guns in America, something Stewart doesn’t mind admitting she was uncomfortable with. ‘I really dislike firing a gun,’ she says. ‘Have you ever been to a gun range?’ Growing up in a country like America gave her food for thought. ‘It’s tough because we are violent. I mean, undeniably, it’s how we have actually covered the globe. There’s no way to avoid the truth of the violence in humanity. I mean, Goddamn, f*****g America, man! So scary, it’s horrible.’
Born in Los Angeles, Stewart was raised in the heart of Hollywood; her father John worked as a stage manager and television producer while her mother Jules was a script supervisor. By the age of 10, she was on screen in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a bit part. But soon she was alongside Jodie Foster in Panic Room and being hailed as a major new discovery.
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As for her opinions on America, perhaps because her mother hails from Australia, the articulate actress has always taken a sideways view on her birth country. Take America’s ideologies, like the idea that anything is possible.
‘That is a nice notion, and sometimes it can be true, but that’s not a fact,’ says Stewart. ‘And not everyone is going to be a winner. And there’s a real violent fall from that. There’s an emptiness to that, that is kind of devastating, ultimately. Because affirmations are nice. We definitely need to love each other in order to be loved and we need to like build each other up and all of that is true, but you got to be careful…it’s a slippery slope.’
With Love Lies Bleeding ready to come out, Stewart is now working on her debut feature as a director. After shooting several music videos and short films, including 2017’s Come Swim, she’s now making the step up by taking on The Chronology of Water, based on 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, which examines the author’s bisexuality and addiction issues. ‘People have been anticipating this directorial debut for a long time, embarrassingly,’ says Stewart, who has been talking it up for years while seeking financing, ‘but what ends up inevitably happening…the movie has only gotten better over this period of time.’
So next stop Latvia, which she will film the project with Imogen Poots in the lead. ‘I was not allowed to make my movie in the States, it was too expensive, it was too hard, there were too many big fat no’s in my face,’ she says. But always the Indie Queen, rather than the Hollywood starlet, Stewart is desperate to call ‘action’ on the film. ‘It takes a long time to really believe in it and actually build the wherewithal to say, “I deserve millions of dollars and a hundred man crew!” That is a f*****g crazy thing to claim. And here we are…I’m so excited.’
Love Lies Bleeding opens in cinemas on May 3rd.
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