Kristen Stewart Praised as a ‘Generous’ Co-Star and the ‘Adult Version of Cool’ at Variety’s Sundance Cover Party
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Kristen Stewart‘s domination of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival continued at the Variety Sundance Cover Party presented by United Airlines, where Stewart was honored for her starring roles in two big festival premieres: “Love Me,” a post-apocalyptic romance film in which she stars opposite Steven Yeun, and “Loves Lies Bleeding,” an A24-backed crime thriller in which she played a reclusive gym manager who falls for a local bodybuilder. “It’s hard to get here,” Stewart told Variety at the party about returning to Sundance, where she has premiered more than a dozen movies throughout her career. “Not because it’s an established and elite film festival, but because it supports marginalized voices.
Voices that aren’t heard anywhere else. It’s a solidifying, communal feeling and it only makes you stronger to go back into a world of a ‘no’ and say, ‘I know that there’s a place for me.'” Stewart said coming to Sundance feels like traveling “to the land of all the actors that I love and admire.
This is the land of Evan Rachel Wood and Jena Malone and Natalie Portman. I was here the year ‘Garden State’ was here. I was just a kiddo and obsessed with her performance.” Kristen Stewart talks about working with her co-stars on "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Love Me," which are both premiering at Sundance this year. | Variety Sundance Cover Party presented by @united https://t.co/Tf1LipouCA pic.twitter.com/kVWGJp0y5o In “Love Lies Bleeding,” which marks the second directorial effort of “Saint Maud” helmer Rose Glass, Stewart goes toe-to-toe with such heavyweight actors like Ed Harris and Jena Malone.
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