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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Director Rose Glass on Her Wild Lesbian ‘Anti-Romance’
Rose Glass discusses stepping into the unknown following Saint Maud and her terrible early pitch to Kristen Stewart
It was over an awkward meeting in a fancy London hotel room in late 2021 that Rose Glass first pitched Kristen Stewart her then rough idea for “ Love Lies Bleeding,” a wild romantic thriller set amid the bodybuilding scene in 80s New Mexico. Following a troubled and God-fearing palliative care nurse (played to perfection in a breakout lead turn by Morfydd Clark), the psychological horror was critically adored (and very briefly topped “Tenet” in the U.K. box office), marking Glass out as a bold and exciting new cinematic voice. Penned alongside fellow National Film and TV School grad Weronika Tofilska, “Love Lies Bleeding” sees Stewart play Lou, the lonely manager of a gym that drips in sweat and ‘roids; a lost soul who becomes embroiled not only in a passionate relationship with an ambitious female bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian), but also a complex and murderous tussle with her vile, abusive husband-in-law (Dave Franco) and criminal father (Ed Harris).
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