Kristen Stewart has her thoughts on sex scenes in movies, revealing that her recent movie handled them differently.Ahead of the release of her upcoming movie from production studio A24, Love Lies Bleeding, Stewart revealed to NBC that the film’s sex scenes were going to “shock people”.The Twilight star said: “The run-of-the-mill, like, just-go-for-it simulated sex thing is so rote.”She continued: “And it’s like actors do have this default thing where, like, ‘Ok, we’re supposed to make out and have sex now.’ That’s just not how people have sex, and I’m so sick of seeing it.”She described the sex scenes in Love Lies Bleeding, which stars Ed Harris and Jena Malone, as more about “really nailing the details and talking about the physical experience more so than even seeing it, like verbalising it, talking to each other, sharing space, having it not be cut up into a ton of different shots, it felt like … a really beautiful thing to deliver an experience that was, like, literal instead of faux.”Love Lies Bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, opens in select theatres from March 8. It was directed by Rose Glass and is set in the ’80s, exploring a relationship between a gym manager and an ambitious bodybuilder.Stewart’s co-star Katy O’Brian added on the movie’s sex scenes: “If anyone takes anything from this movie, it’s to ask your partner what they like.
Kristen Stewart Says the ‘Era of Queer Films Being So Pointedly Only That Is Done’: I Shouldn’t ‘Have to Stand on a F—ing Soapbox’
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Ellise Shafer At the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “Love Lies Bleeding,” Kristen Stewart said she thinks the era of queer films “being so pointedly only that is done,” adding that it’s time for films to focus on “sidelined perspectives” while “not making it all about the reasons that they’re sidelined.” “Love Lies Bleeding” stars Stewart as reclusive gym manager Lou, who “falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream,” the film’s synopsis reads. “But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.” When asked if filming the gory and twist-filled “Love Lies Bleeding” had changed her perspective on how queer stories are centered in cinema, Stewart sounded off on the topic.
“I think we can’t keep doing that thing where we tell everyone how to feel and sort of pat each other on the back and receive brownie points for providing space for marginalized voices, and only in the capacity that they are allowed to speak about that alone,” Stewart said. “We’ve all been there the whole time.
I think the era of queer films being so pointedly only that is done, it’s over. Maybe they’ll keep happening, but I think it’s sort of inherent to how we’re all moving forward.” In 2020, Stewart starred in “Happiest Season,” which was the first lesbian Christmas rom-com produced by a major Hollywood studio.
Though Stewart said she enjoyed that experience, now she’s looking for queer stories where the narrative dives deeper than the character’s sexuality. “I was happy to do ‘Happiest Season’ because it was a gay old time, it was a Christmas movie, it was a completely commercial, straightforward,
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Thriller ‘Love Lives Bleeding’ With Kristen Stewart, ‘Glitter & Doom’ Romance With Indigo Girls Soundtrack, Open In Limited Release – Specialty Preview
A24’s psychological thriller Love Lies Bleeding by director Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris, opens in limited release on five screens in New York and L.A., expanding next week. A reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. Written by Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilskav. Premiered at Sundance, see Deadline review.
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