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Kristen Stewartis — with characteristic candor — remembering her time makingHappiest Season.
Speaking toThemmagazine, the 33-year-old star recalled “getting so many studio executive notes about my hair and my clothes.”
Stewart, who stars in the radically queer thrillerLove Lies Bleeding(in theaters now), considersHappiest Season“a family-friendly movie designed to promote tolerance,” according toThem.
(Left-right:) Jena Malone, Katy O’Brian, Kristen Stewart and Anna Baryshnikov at the “Love Lies Bleeding” Los Angeles premiere on March 5.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images
Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images
“The identity was beaten out of my goals there,” she said of the film. Receiving notes from studio executives, “I was like, ‘You did read the script. You did hire me. What are we doing here?’ It was f—ing annoying.”
In retrospect, adjustments from producers were “fine,” Stewart toldThem, “because I guess there are ways that you need to shroud things for everyone to easily digest. And I’m down with that.”
She added praise for her director, saying, “Honestly, f—ing hats off to Clea, because I don’t have the patience [to do] that.”
(Left-right:) Burl Moseley, Asiyih N’Dobe, Anis N’Dobe, Alison Brie, Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Holland, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen in “Happiest Season”.Hulu
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After publiclyidentifyingas bisexual in 2017 andresisting definingher sexuality, Stewart began playing more and more queer roles in film, from 2018’sJT LeRoyand 2019’sCharlie’s AngelstoHappiest Season.
She added that the “pressure of representing a group of people, of representing queerness, wasn’t something I understood then.”
Kristen Stewart on March 9.Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
Happiest Seasonalso starredAubrey Plaza,Mary Steenburgen,Victor Garber,Alison BrieandDan Levy— a cast partially made up of other openly queer actors.
TheRose GlassfilmLove Lies Bleedingextends Stewart’s streak of playing queer characters, costarring with Katy O’Brian as a vengeful bodybuilder. Speaking withThem, Stewart called the critically acclaimed A24 hit “pretty f—ing sick.”
Among Stewart’s upcoming projects are playing criticSusan Sontagand making a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoirThe Chronology of Water.
source: people.com
