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Why Kristen Stewart Didn’t Star in Her Own Directorial Debut
Stewart’s The Chronology of Water just premiered at Cannes, where she was frank about the “bullshit” barriers she faced in getting it made.
A few hours before Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, premiered at Cannes, she sat down with actress and ex–Sonic Youth singer Kim Gordon, who co-stars in the film, at Hyde Beach. The event was hosted by Breaking Through the Lens, which provides financing and support to female filmmakers, and called for “Cannes Beach Chic” attire, a mysterious code that some interpreted as jeans, others as sundresses, others as athleisure, and others still (me) as an oddly funereal black dress they bought one hour earlier at Mango. Stewart stressed over and over again how important it was for women artists to trust themselves over the “bullshit” industry politics that would keep them out of filmmaking and to listen to their “inner voice.” “We are consistently telling ourselves to shut up.
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