Video: New/old interview from Cannes for 'Clouds of Sils Maria'

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(Reporter: "Do you Google yourself, do you Google your co-stars?")

Stewart: "Yeah, I mean I like to know what's going on. It's a very different thing though. If you, like, it doesn't ever touch you. If you're asking it affects me, like why do I do it? Literally I'm somebody who is kind of a control freak. I'm like obsessively... like I want to be self aware. I don't want to walk in to a room and ever think that there's something that these people know or think and I don't know it. But, at the same time, it literally is as easy as turning around and it's not there any more, do you know what I mean? It's like it doesn't touch you. It never is actually able to affect me in anyway. But yeah, hell yeah, I know what's going on. Google everyone, totally. I want to know what people are doing."

(Reporter: "What about yourself? Are you afraid of doing that?")

Stewart: "No, not really. That's the thing. I don't sit obsessively Googling myself, but I really think it's awkward when actors sit and say 'oh no, no I've never done that.' It's like 'you don't want to know? You don't want to know what's going on?' So yeah of course. And also this movie would be much more... it would be irrelevant if I didn't. Of course I do. This is a huge commentary on that world itself, so yeah."

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The French-set drama deconstructs the media’s reaction to celebrity. Stewart plays Val, American assistant to a superstar actress Maria Enders, played by Juliette Binoche. Enders is at a career crossroads, bored of making the occasional Hollywood blockbuster and with European art-house hits few and far between she is faced with the conundrum of whether to accept a part in the revival of the play that made her famous. The twist is that this time round she has been asked to play the mother and not the starlet. To add a further layer to the fact-versus-fiction underbelly, the film’s director Olivier Assayas wrote Rendez-vous, the 1985 film that launched Binoche. The key scenes of Sils Maria are numerous discussions between Maria and Val, about life, love and art.

“Oh dude!” says Stewart (Americanisms such as “dude” and “it’s like” litter the 24-year-old’s speech). “This part is so perfectly timed and coincidental, it’s so perfectly cast. Olivier didn’t write it with me in mind, but as soon as he and his producer Charles [Gillibert] were considering casting this part – I had worked with Charles on On the Road – they sent me the script and it was, like, ‘God, this is perfect’. It’s just so much more relevant for me to say these words. It’s not why the movie was made, but it was really fun to say in a film, out of the context of an interview, that it is so ridiculously scary, weird, super-surreal and odd that people are obsessed with voraciously consuming bulls**t.”

I’ve chatted to Stewart twice before, the first time on the set of Adventureland when she was 17, just before Twilight changed her life, and another when helping out on an interview she was doing with Stephenie Meyer in 2012. The second time she struck me as incredibly fragile, both times she was nervous. She is now made of firmer stuff, her whole demeanour far more confident.

Getting attention is something that Stewart has done ever since she appeared in David Fincher’s Panic Room aged 12. “I am really lucky. My mum and dad work on film crews. So I grew up on film sets and the family friends would always be the directors that my mum was working with, or whatever.” Aged 13, she appeared in a film, Speak. “My parents had the coolest job in the world. I wanted to be a crew member but at that age the only job you can do is be an actor... So then I became really serious about it.”

(On her tattoo:)
“It’s part of Guernica, a Picasso painting that I saw when I was 18 in Madrid and it floored me. It was the first time I’ve ever responded to a piece of art like that. It’s a sort of dismal depiction with this little shred of light – if you just turn the light back on everything will be fine. I like the imagery, the combination of the eye, the sun and the people as a light bulb as if they are making a movie. Literally, it’s just perfect for me. I love the memory and the idea: keep going, keep the f**king light on.”

“I’ve recently directed this music video [Sage + The Saints’ “Take Me to the South”] with my friend. It’s something that I did in four days, a fun story that pertains to her song. But I’m not trying to show anyone anything, yet it will get attention it probably would never normally get.”

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Kristen's interview with L'Express at Cannes

Heroine of the Twilight saga, Kristen Stewart explodes in Sils Maria, by Olivier Assayas. A revelation that is well worth a (short) meeting.

Lets not waste time. The meeting with Kristen Stewart is timed. Take it or leave it. Because she is great in Sils Maria, by Olivier Assayas, we took it. In the movie, she plays the assistant-manager-coach-bodyguard of a star played by Juliette Binoche. In real life, she's one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and playing cat and mouse with the paparazzi who stick to her. The teenager in you, may know it: heroine of the Twilight saga, Kristen Stewart is a superstar whose "life, she said, blasé, has become a mini-show."

As proof, the effervescence on the rooftop of the hotel where, the morning after the presentation of Sils Maria at Cannes, the actress does interviews non-stop. Juliette Binoche and Olivier Assayas are also present, but all eyes are on this 24 year old American, actress since 10 and having always been on sets - her mother is a script supervisor, her father, a stage manager.

There is an irresistible urge to scratch beneath the surface of the actress, know to be crabby in interview, and sometimes rude to her fans seeking autographs. "This reputation is unfair, she defends. I was 17 when the first Twilight came out. I was caught in a media storm, where I only was gossip fodder. I became so nervous that people thought I was an unpleasant person."

 Now, it's quite the opposite. She talks at full speed. And gets carried away when the term "against type" is mentioned about her roles as a rock star and muse of the Beat Generation in The Runaways and On the Road: "I don't give a fuck about what is good for my career or what people expect of me. What I want, is new experiences." Hence her desire to work with Juliette Binoche: "She turned out to be as I imagined: eccentric, weird, vivid, smart. And her laugh! My God, her laugh! It is most contagious I have ever heard in my life!"

At her side, like a mirror effect with Sils Maria, her publicist times the interview. "She's with me since I was 13 years old. I evolve in a world where everything you say or do can be used against you. She helps me and protects me." She will be busy. Kristen Stewart is now no longer the teen idol. Thanks to her extraordinary performance in Sils Maria, she enters the major league like a tornado.

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"Kristen Stewart, the indomitable beauty"

Kristen Stewart, just 24, but already ten years in the business, has made her first steps in the European auteur cinema through Olivier Assayas's Sils Maria. Interview with an actress very comfortable with her star status.

Q: Do you feel this changes anything for you, as an actress, to play in Olivier Assayas's Sils Maria?

Kristen: Hmmm... No. Actually, except the five Twilight film, I've only done very different movies from each other, and all of them have changed something. I'm very happy to have played in Sils Maria, but it is not an exception.

Q: Being selected at Cannes, for the first time [note: little mistake, it's the second], does it have a particular flavor?

Kristen: Oh, if you talk about that, yes, of course it's great. In the United States, we have Sundance and some other good festivals, but in terms of pure and hard love of movies, [Cannes] is the place to be. Since I was 10, I work hard, I'm totally invested in my job as an actress and I saw this selection not as an outcome but as a big recognition.

Q: You go to the movies a lot?

Kristen: It really depends. When I'm not filming, I can lock myself in my house and see five movies a day. Right now, I'm filming so I don't have time. But I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of movies anyway.

Q: What are you filming right now?

Kristen: I'm filming a movie in Louisiana called American Ultra, with Jesse Eisenberg. It is a mix of action and comedy, a somewhat strange movie, almost surreal, which, I hope, should be quite funny.

Q: It's the second time you work with Jesse Eisenberg, after Adventureland. It's an interesting movie, even if it had not been very well distributed...

Kristen: Thank you! I'm proud of this movie, Greg [Mottola] is a very sensitive director. And yes, it's an immense pleasure to work again with Jesse.

Q: Did you know well the movies of Olivier Assayas before meeting him?

Kristen: I saw Carlos and... his previous movie with Juliette Binoche, which I can not pronounce the title [L'Heure d'été], when they were released in the United States, but that's all. I had been struck by their artistic integrity, which I got to see by working with him. It's rare to find an honorable director. Especially in the United States. Olivier has just his desire in mind. He does not see things in terms of marketing, he does not think at how much revenue the movie will generate. He is focused on his film, its actors, nothing else.

Q: How was he [Olivier] on the set?
Kristen: He's a fucking badass! He controls everything and, at the same time, he's very cool. His hand.. you see (she makes the gesture with her own), it's as if he was holding everything together tightly, leaving nothing slip through his fingers, but his hand is relaxed, never tensed... I've never seen that before. On the set, we did not have to talk for hours. He let us relatively 'free' with Juliette, we were able to bring what we wanted, but at the end, he always managed to take us to his own vision of things. Here's how I would characterize his method: he puts everything methodically and then he let it go. It's almost like theater: very long takes that never seem to end. This is rare, and very cool.

Q: You are known to love improvisation, Assayas encouraged you to go in that direction?

Kristen: Yes, completely. I learn my lines but I'm not the kind of person sticking to it word for word, or rehearsing the scene a hundred times before playing it. It was totally ok for Olivier and Juliette, who have encouraged me in this way (she pauses). To be honest, I think they were a little destabilized at first, and me as well. It took me a good week to get used to the style of Olivier, who gives just a very few guidances. In Hollywood, we are sometimes directed to the millimeter: "Say this line, go there, mark this pause, turn around 12 degrees," But I think it kills spontaneity. I love when emotion gushed at the time.

Q: And Juliette Binoche, how was she with you?

Kristen: With me? Lovely. She has a crazy energy. She is a powerhouse. She is very eccentric and at the same time, she's not the type of person to get into a tizzy over nothing, you know what I mean. She does not just pontificate, as many actors do.. talking for hours about their craft, their careers, their technique and, once the director said "action" give you the most banal performance you've ever seen... No, Juliette, she, applies her philosophy. She's like Olivier deep down: what she gives never looks like a product. It is such a cliché term but I think it's the one that best describes her: she is real.

Q: With Twilight, you've found yourself in this position of big product marketing. How did you feel?

Kristen: Not very well. Now I begin to take a step back and I realize that this fame and all this hysteria around me were excessive. Even now, I pay the price. I am constantly followed by paparazzi, my life is dissected in the tabloids... Believe me, it's not very pleasant, but I have to do with.

Q: Sils Maria is precisely a reflection on the acting profession and the celebrity. Have you find things in it that reminded you daily life?

Kristen: Yes, even if it is a composition. Let's say that the movie was well-timed, to allow me to take a step back from all that. It's a way for me to say that I'm not fooled.

Q: You knew this "circus", as you say, since you're 10 years old. Do you think it has changed a lot?

Hmmm... not really, no. Of course, it has been intensified in my case. Internet and social networks - on which I'm not much - has changed the relationship we have with the public and media but, globally, these are the same rules.

Q: When you were 10 years old, who were your role models, people who inspired you to do this job?

Kristen: Firstly, Jodie Foster, with whom I worked on Panic Room. She was really really important to me. I still see her from time to time and she remains a model. Besides her, Catherine Keener inspires me. Most recently, Amy Adams is one of the best, I think.. And Cate Blanchette, of course!

Q: Who would you dream to work with now?

Kristen: I'll give a very typical answer: Scorsese.

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Video: Interview with Reuters in Cannes 2014

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May 28 (Reuters) - From Hollywood to Cannes, Kristen Stewart has worked hard to put some distance between her "Twilight" fame and the more serious dramatic projects she has been embracing since the vampire romance franchise ended.

Stewart, 24, who became a fan favorite among young adults alongside her then-boyfriend Robert Pattinson in the "Twilight" films where she played a teen girl smitten with a vampire, has turned to darker fare such as this year's Sundance film "Camp X-Ray," where she plays a prison guard at Guantanamo Bay.

In her latest movie "Clouds of Sils Maria," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Stewart plays the personal assistant of an aging actress dealing with the challenges of the film industry's reaction to her getting older. The film also stars Juliette Binoche and Chloe Grace Moretz.

In an interview with Reuters, the actress opened up about her views on the fame game and dealing with perceptions.

Q: What drew you to "Clouds of Sils Maria"?

A: It happened to be the perfect project, timing-wise. Just my experience with my career, how it's gone - you know, "Twilight" blew up - I'm extremely famous. It's interesting for me to play an actress' assistant who then comments on that world and how it works and how superficial it can be.

Q: Working with a European writer-director on this film, was that a different mindset from working in America? Is there a freedom that comes from working in Europe that you might not get in Hollywood?

A: It's not absent in the States, but it's not prevalent to feel free within the film industry, to feel like you can say what you want to say, not with any concern about how people are going to react to it, whether you're going to piss them off.

So here, it seems like people are less afraid because again they're doing it for themselves. It's for the art of it. It's not to market things. It's just, it's a good feeling.

You know, to make a movie is so ridiculous. We're going to go film each other pretending to be other people so other people can watch us pretending to be other people? It's insane. But if it's worth it and it's saying something ... it can be transcendentally important.

Q: Is it difficult to remain yourself knowing the industry is pushing and pulling you this way and that, with the media often giving you a hard time regardless of what you do?

A: I don't do what I do to ... control perception or make people think a certain way about me. That would be traipsing all over the experience of making any film.

It's just so ass-backwards to me. I don't know how people do that. I don't know how people tactfully traverse their careers. I don't know how they choose, 'Well, this is a different side of me people have not seen and so I will present that to them now.' It's like, 'Why are you doing this for other people? You should be doing it for yourself.' And so I've functioned from that position since I started, and therefore I really don't care about all that.

Q: Do you feel the pressure of needing to stay on top of the game?

A: I want to make movies one day, like absolutely I want to direct movies. And I directed this music video (for indie band Sage + The Saints) and I was like, it's just this dinky little thing and it's fun, and I'm so happy to do it, but it's going to be a big deal, no matter what. Even if I shoot it on a Polaroid camera, people will be like, 'What did she do? Let's take a look.' It's like, 'How about you give me a second to figure it out?' So, yes, that's not something to complain about. It's incredible that I can do that. It's just kind of weird. It's different. 

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Olivier Assayas talks about Kristen with Arte (France)

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Olivier Assayas talks about Kristen with Arte France: "I met her in the best possible conditions, not during auditions."

"She quickly imposed a form of independence from American cinema, a freedom of movement, thinking, acting."

"Kristen is a superstar, she worked with the biggest directors, but after seeing her in real life I thought there're other things to do with her."

"A movie star with the virginity of a beginner."

He compares his collaboration with Kristen with the one he had with Maggie Cheung for Irma Vep.

He asked her Maggie to do things she had never done before, nothing extravagant, but nobody ever asked her to do things like that. And with Kristen, he felt that too.

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