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Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart in ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
Anna Kooris
Kristen Stewart has defended her racy March Rolling Stone magazine cover photo shoot that went viral and divided audiences on social media platforms.
“The existence of a female body that offers you any type of sexuality that is not designed exclusively for heterosexual men is something that people are not very comfortable with and that’s why I’m very happy with it,” Stewart said at a conference press on Sunday at the Berlin hotel. Film Festival for her latest film, Love lies bleeding.
The photos show Stewart dressed in a mullet with jockstraps and basketball shorts. The spread quickly went viral on social media, as fans marveled at the opportunity for a queer celebrity to get a hypersexualized photo shoot that wasn’t aimed at the male gaze.
Stewart, who is bisexual, said she enjoyed breaking traditional stereotypes about what it means to be feminine. “It’s okay to take different photos and mix them up in a way that people aren’t used to and want to do, and that’s okay too,” she added.
Stewart insisted that the androgynous images taken by Collier Schorr for Rolling Stone shouldn’t be a big deal. “In fact, it’s ubiquitous and it’s everywhere and it’s being denied and it’s crazy that there aren’t more photographs like that. “I loved the opportunity,” he added.
love lies bleeding, directed by Rose Glass, follows Lou (Kristen Stewart) as a gym manager in middle-of-nowhere America who falls in love with bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian) after she comes to town on her way to a competition in Las Vegas. . The two quickly get into trouble with Lou’s father (Ed Harris), an arms dealer who runs the local criminal network.
Moving from magazines to film, Stewart talked about making lesbian-themed films like Love the bleeding lies for mainstream audiences, rather than in and for an echo chamber. “We can’t keep doing that thing where we tell everyone how to feel, and where we pat ourselves on the back and get points for giving space to marginalized voices and just being able to allow them to talk about it. Just that,” Stewart told the Berlinale press.
“The era of queer films, which are just that, is over. It’s done. Maybe they happen, but I think things evolve and move forward. It is so inherent to the way we all move forward,” he added. Stewart pointed out happiest seasonher LGBTQ+ Christmas romantic comedy that had a completely commercial approach and yet sparked her interest in bringing other films with diverse voices and themes to a wider audience.
“It’s not about making (films) about the reasons why they are marginalized, but about people’s real experiences, what they love, what their desires are, where they come from, where they want to go and, yes, not always feeling like one. “I have to stand on a fucking soapbox and be everyone’s spokesperson,” Stewart argued.
The Hollywood actress also gave an update on her upcoming lead role in a Susan Sontag biopic. “The Sontag thing will be done over a very long period of time. The format is unique. It is a hybrid type of documentary, research project, experiment, film within a film. We started last year here at the festival. I don’t know when we’re going to finish it. “It’s kind of an open process.”
Love lies bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, received positive reviews from critics, including The Hollywood ReporterIt’s David Rooney. He wrote that director Rose Glass had presented “a lesbian neo-noir drenched in haunting nightscapes, violent crime and tougher KStew than has ever been presented in such a potent concentrate.”
A24 will be launched love lies bleeding in the United States on March 8.