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Kristen Stewart had lived with the story for her feature directorial debut "The Chronology of Water" for eight years before it made it to the Cannes Film Festival last week. The biographical drama, based on the memoir of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch, follows a young woman (played by Imogen Poots) who finds her voice and a way out of childhood trauma through swimming and writing.
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00:00I finished shooting the movie like nine months ago and it's aptly nine months later I was like
00:06here we find ourselves like with this thing outside of my body having a relationship with
00:11the world on its kind of own regard and considering it's a film about iteration
00:18based on a book about memory and about how that iterates in your body and how you have the ability
00:25to control the evolution and realize honestly when you get the when there are certain pieces of work
00:33and or maybe even just like uh conversations that you can have with people or relationships that's
00:37that unlock this idea that you're like oh you mean like all of these truths can change I can change
00:42them all the things that I thought were facts that happened to me I can you mean like reality's
00:46malleable you mean like storytelling saves lives but I don't have to accept the prescribed story
00:54that is being shoved down my throat as a woman she was amazing she's an amazing director
00:59I mean it's we always say this it's like there aren't the right words to describe it but she blew
01:05me away and she is a true artist and her integrity is astounding and she was an incredible leader
01:16she treats everybody in her life and at work with grace and to see her take on this project
01:22and complete it was honestly it was like the highlight of it was a highlight of like my
01:28career to see someone like Kristen succeed at that when people ask me like why I didn't want to be in
01:33the film it's like I didn't want to um I didn't want to deprive myself of the relationship that I
01:37have had in the past with directors is I wanted to be able to see I wanted Imogen to iterate I wanted
01:44Imogen to take something that I gave her I wanted to this is a silly metaphor that I've been using today
01:50but it's kind of the only reason only way to describe it's like I planted all these seeds in
01:54like this huge field and I got to watch my best friend go pick my flowers like I it's like
01:59I didn't want to do that myself I didn't want to stare into a mirror I wanted to look into someone's
02:04eyes a fellow a girl who also had similar things to say and to discover and and sort of be able to
02:12have the the the the fire grow because two flames better than one um but yeah I wasn't scared it
02:22wasn't like trepidated like before no I'm so much more afraid of being an actor it's because everything
02:27about directing a movie nothing happens unless you make it happen nothing and it's like
02:32I'm like definitely about action I have a harder time in quiet rooms like took me a really long
02:40time to write this thank goodness I needed to be the exact person I am right now to make this movie
02:45but um no I wasn't I wasn't afraid it was more just like um ravenous crazy had to tell myself to
02:55calm down all the time it's like don't speak too loud nobody will hear you you have to like center
02:59yourself and chill but when you hire actors like Imogen Poots who can meet you on that level
03:06that's the thing also about directing is like you you must find people that can meet you if you ever
03:11feel like too much for someone or like it's then goodbye like the process it's the process is so
03:16important and you need to like safeguard that the the right people should not scare you they should
03:23light mutual fires
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