Kristen Stewart Recommends

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00:00 Do you like anyone who's on lock?

00:02 I don't.

00:03 I think being embarrassing is really hot.

00:05 My taste? Uh...

00:12 I like when things have spaces to fill.

00:29 I don't love perfected items.

00:32 I really like audience engagement.

00:35 I love things that have internal lives.

00:39 Even photographs, like the ones that we did today.

00:42 There's so much behind them.

00:45 It feels like they brought an entire life to them.

00:48 Stuff that needs to be.

00:49 Things that feel compulsive.

00:50 Things that feel like if they didn't exist in the world,

00:53 then we would be lacking.

00:55 My favorite movies are always ones that leave you wondering.

00:59 I think Anatomy of a Fall is...

01:01 I was at the edge of my seat.

01:03 My fingers were kind of here.

01:05 And I was like gleefully watching.

01:08 I was bellowing in the theater.

01:10 I've seen it twice, which is required.

01:11 It's one of those movies that you have to take in twice.

01:14 Barbie. I do backflips for that movie.

01:16 I can't believe that she did that.

01:18 It was an absolute magic trick.

01:19 She was able to sort of get that under everyone's noses

01:22 on such a grand scale.

01:24 There's a Proust joke in that movie.

01:26 She calls Barbie a fascist.

01:27 I was doing really, really happy cartwheels in the theater.

01:30 Zone of Interest is a masterpiece.

01:32 It's a movie that we just...

01:33 We don't make movies like that anymore.

01:35 Everything is there and nothing is overt,

01:38 but it is the most undigestible thing.

01:41 I need to watch it again,

01:42 but I also can't imagine approaching it again.

01:44 I really like Bottoms.

01:45 That's a really good theater experience.

01:47 Watching that with other bodies is so much fun.

01:50 I felt like I was with a bunch of kids

01:52 and they were all hooting and hollering

01:54 and being loud and annoying and stupid,

01:56 and I was like, "This is the most fun ever."

01:58 What do I watch all the time?

01:59 Practical Magic, Now and Then.

02:02 There's a Christmas movie, Fanny and Alexander.

02:04 The breadth of life in that movie will destroy you,

02:08 but it is also very beautiful.

02:10 It's stunning.

02:11 It's one of my favorite movies.

02:13 A book I cannot stop recommending is

02:15 Bluettes over and over and over.

02:17 The Power Broker this year, over and over and over.

02:20 I have so much catch-up to do

02:22 because I actually didn't go to school for very long

02:24 because I started making movies instead.

02:26 I rarely fall in love with contemporary female writers,

02:30 but I feel like right now something's happening.

02:32 There's this collective consciousness thing

02:34 that is waking up and going, "Oh, excuse me."

02:39 We need to contextualize this shame and this pain

02:41 because we don't want to wear it constantly,

02:43 but we do have to acknowledge it and repossess it.

02:46 I find it's embedded in everything.

02:48 I read lately there's this book called Heroines.

02:51 It's about the sort of mad wives of modernism being silenced.

02:55 The idea that we cultivate these men and pamper them

02:59 and give them everything they need in order to be geniuses,

03:02 and if we even suggest that we want to go down a rabbit hole,

03:06 we're pathologized and insane.

03:09 And we've only just stopped doing that.

03:12 I think there's an entire body of expression

03:16 and an entire new language that needs to be sort of...

03:19 The girls, really cool,

03:22 like a sort of adjacent perspective of a very well-known story,

03:26 which is, like, I think the Manson stuff,

03:28 but it's like, imagine if there was a girl there

03:30 that never actually got all the way through

03:33 and didn't commit the murders,

03:35 but was there right up until the moment,

03:37 and what that would do to a woman growing up.

03:39 The way that she writes about the sort of tiny violences,

03:43 not the big ones,

03:45 but the ways in which we feel small around men

03:49 when they're not serial killers,

03:51 but when they're, like, mad at you for dropping the beer.

03:54 There's a book called Minor Characters.

03:56 I think it's like Jack Kerouac's girlfriend wrote a memoir-esque book,

04:01 in addition to a novel.

04:03 But those are boys that I have just, like, hero-worshipped

04:06 and been obsessed with my whole life,

04:09 and they have really lit many fires

04:12 and have really, like, kind of made me the person I am in so many ways,

04:15 but then you read this woman's kind of version of the same time.

04:20 Those are the movies that I want to make.

04:22 I'm trying to grow out of wanting to make all my favorite books movies

04:26 because it just doesn't always require it.

04:28 I guess if something feels like it has a body,

04:30 if something wants to get up and start running,

04:33 I don't think a good--

04:35 I don't love adaptations that are very true.

04:37 I love when movies that are based on films

04:39 feel like someone got a real hair in their ass

04:42 and had to just go make their own thing inspired by.

04:46 I've had to kind of remind myself, like,

04:48 just because you love something doesn't mean it's necessarily a movie.

04:50 It's like you have to look for that feeling.

04:53 Getting older, you start really trying to source why you do stuff,

04:56 and then you just kind of turn into yourself at 12.

04:59 And all of the ways that I tried to kind of, like,

05:02 prove I wasn't one thing--

05:04 You know, you imagine people expect things from you

05:06 even when they don't,

05:08 and being kind of fixated on other people's perceptions of you

05:13 is a kind of a young thing.

05:15 I'm not saying everyone needs to grow out of that.

05:17 Other people's perceptions of you exist,

05:19 and they're very meaningful.

05:21 Like, being a human is about exchange.

05:23 When I go to get dressed,

05:25 nowadays, I literally just want to wear a uniform.

05:28 I just want to be working.

05:30 Like, I just--unless we're creating a character,

05:32 unless we're really unpacking affectation,

05:34 everything is nonsense.

05:36 Everything is bullshit,

05:38 unless you are naked.

05:40 It is just--I don't know, like,

05:42 we're all just, like, lying to and manipulating each other all the time.

05:45 And I mean that without any negative connotation.

05:48 We just, like, want to get through, to come across.

05:51 And we have to try and do that every day.

05:55 Like, packing is the worst thing.

05:57 I'd rather never do it again as long as--

05:59 You have to, like, get dressed ten times,

06:01 but in, like, an hour's length of time.

06:03 It's, like, the worst.

06:05 I hate getting dressed.

06:07 That's why I wear the same thing every day.

06:09 It's okay to be embarrassing.

06:12 I think being embarrassing is really hot.

06:14 And we spend so much of our time, like, being like,

06:17 "Oh!"

06:19 I spend so much of my time going, like,

06:21 "What just happened? How did that--oh, no."

06:23 And you're like, "Yeah, but do you like anyone who's on lock?"

06:27 I don't.

06:29 I really like the messy stuff,

06:31 and so, like, just don't be--

06:33 wear whatever, you know?

06:35 'Cause then you will be cool, even if you're wearing, like, a sack.

06:38 I'm really obsessed with Mannequin Pussy lately.

06:41 They've got a really sultry and positive growl

06:44 that is just, like, shoving our faces in...

06:48 like, the bush of being a woman.

06:53 And I love them for that.

06:56 Just such a good band.

06:58 For anyone that's in love, I recommend listening to Alice Coltrane.

07:03 All of it.

07:04 The Beatles. Do you know what I mean?

07:06 Literally, just--I would just go for that low, low-hanging fruit.

07:10 Like, the three-minute ones, you know?

07:12 There's something about that.

07:14 Yeah, Alice Coltrane and the Beatles.

07:18 I'm really into dice.

07:20 I just like the--I like throwing them.

07:23 I like the heft.

07:25 Not knowing what's gonna come out.

07:27 Placing bets.

07:29 Taking little signs from them, like, if I roll a three, then--

07:32 but then being like, "Fuck, I didn't get the three, so I'll roll ten more times."

07:36 I'm into chin-ups lately, but that's just pretty obvious.

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