From actor to director.
Kristen Stewart is making her directorial debut on the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition on Friday together with her new romance/drama “The Chronology of Water” — and has some trustworthy ideas concerning the viewing.
Whereas speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, the “Twilight” alum, 35, shared that she hopes the movie premiere in France can “crash and burn, but in a way that feels correct.”
In all seriousness, Stewart revealed she “cannot believe” her film is a part of the coveted pageant.
“There’s not a more eloquent way [to say it]. We barely finished this movie. It’s not even done,” she confessed. “I need to come home and literally have two more weeks in color and sound. This is my f–king first draft. We’re running in here half-dressed. But I’m into it.”
“The Chronology of Water” is an adaptation of the 2011 memoir of the identical title by Lidia Yuknvavitch. It follows the story of “a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer – ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer,” per the synopsis.
The venture stars Susannah Flood, Imogen Poots, Jim Belushi and Earl Cave.
It was a narrative Stewart knew she needed to be part of telling from the beginning.
“When I read [the book], I just went, ‘Oh, f–k,’” she recalled. “We need to put this on its feet so we can do it all together.”
This movie marks the primary of 10 that Stewart plans on making — however filming this film specifically and getting it into Cannes was a labor of affection.
“I am not being false humble — we’re all running on fumes. I was like, ‘We can do it.’ I was like an absolute basket case,” she stated of manufacturing. “I’m kind of happy to take on something vulnerable. I’m happy to take something with mistakes. Mistakes are f–king hot.”
As for why now was the fitting time to direct the movie after many years of performing, Stewart defined to THR, “I had to wait until right now for this to be actualized, because there are portals that set you free. Texts or songs or conversations that give you ways into figuring out how you want to wield your voice.”
“And even though I always knew that I was waiting for that trigger, I hadn’t found it yet until [‘The Chronology of Water’]. This was eight years ago. So it’s been a slow and laborious birth, but I’ve wanted to direct movies as long as I have been an actor and it’s been a multitiered development,” she shared.
“But for some reason, psychotically, I’ve wanted to do it forever, because I do think the exchange between an actor and a director is a bridge between two very different positions. You actually have to end up doing the same thing together to hold this reciprocal energy in this emotional space and make something feel congruent.”
In the meantime, this was a dream Stewart had held since she was a younger lady.
“So I was like, ‘Oh, I’m half of you.’ And I feel like my actors are half of me and I just wanted to do both. I wanted to get onto the other side. I think I was, like, 9 years old but then I figured out how to actually f–king do it. And now I’m 35.”
Stewart bought her begin at age 8, touchdown roles in a slew of films reminiscent of “The Safety of Objects” in 2001 and “Panic Room” in 2002.
At 14, Stewart nabbed her first starring function within the 2004 motion/comedy “Catch That Kid” alongside Max Thieriot and Corbin Bleu.
By 2008, she had turn out to be a family title, portraying Bella Swan in “Twilight.”
The 5 motion pictures within the franchise grossed a mixed $3.3 billion worldwide and starred Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner as her love pursuits.
On the time, audiences have been upset by Stewart’s moody performing within the movies that have been primarily based off of the novels by Stephenie Meyer.
“The studio was trying to make a movie for kids,” Stewart instructed Rolling Stone in 2024. “They didn’t want what actually was the book. When the f–k are [Bella and Edward] smiling, ever?”
The “Happiest Season” alum additionally made headlines for courting Pattinson, 39, throughout the movies.
“Rob and I can’t just keep talking about that s–t, because it’s f–king weird,” Stewart defined. “It’s like if someone kept asking you — I mean for literally decades — ‘But senior year in high school?’ You’re like, ‘F–king A, man! I don’t know!’”
Speaking to Selection concerning the venture that very same 12 months, she added she will now see a queer undertone within the motion pictures that she hadn’t observed earlier than.
“I can only see it now,” Stewart admitted. “I don’t think it necessarily started off that way, but I also think that the fact that I was there at all, it was percolating. It’s such a gay movie. I mean, Jesus Christ, Taylor [Lautner] and Rob and me, and it’s so hidden and not OK. I mean, a Mormon woman wrote this book. It’s all about oppression, about wanting what’s going to destroy you. That’s a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”
