For Kristen Stewart‘s adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir The Chronology of Water, which marks her characteristic movie directorial debut, the actress is stepping away from Hollywood. As an alternative of filming the Imogen Poots-starring biographical drama in Los Angeles, Stewart is planning to shoot the film in Europe.
Talking with Internet-a-Porter, the Love Lies Bleeding star shared that she is making The Chronology of Water in Latvia. She advised the publication that the choice stemmed from craving inventive freedom with out the confines of Tinseltown.
“It’s a fledging movie tradition there [in Latvia],” she defined. “Look, I’m all about the way in which we make motion pictures right here [in the US], however I wanted a kind of radical detachment. I’m not a director but. I have to make a pupil movie. I can’t try this right here.”
The units in Latvia might be remodeled to suit the varied U.S. cities featured within the movie, together with New York and San Diego.
Stewart, whose earlier directorial work consists of visible initiatives for musicians together with Boygenius, referred to as out Hollywood for forcing ladies to compromise as filmmakers with a purpose to succeed.
“[There’s a] pondering that we will verify these little containers, after which eliminate the patriarchy, and the way we’re all product of it,” she stated. “It’s simple for them to be like, ‘Look what we’re doing. We’re making Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film! We’re making Margot Robbie’s film!’ And also you’re like, ‘OK, cool. You’ve chosen 4.’”
Stewart continued, “And I’m in awe of these ladies, I like these ladies [but] it feels phony. If we’re congratulating one another for broadening perspective, after we haven’t actually performed sufficient, then we cease broadening.
As for the place manufacturing at the moment stands, Stewart shared that, on the time of the interview, she was in “delicate prep” for The Chronology of Water, two weeks away from formally starting the manufacturing course of.
Beforehand, Stewart had advised Rolling Stone that the movie, which she additionally wrote and has been attempting to make for seven years, is “radical in 1,000,000 methods,” which is why it had been so troublesome to seek out somebody to finance it, she stated. The story tackles childhood sexual abuse, queer romance, BSDM and habit, amongst different difficult topics.