Kristen Stewart explains how her role in the sci-fi romance Love Me challenged her to explore new territory as an actor. The Love Lies Bleeding star revealed back in 2021 that she was soon set to appear in a quirky post-apocalyptic movie about a love story between a satellite and a buoy. Having premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Stewart’s Love Me is set to release in theaters on January 31, 2025.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenRant about her romantic turn as the lonely bouy Me, and the attention-seeking influencer Deja in Love Me, Stewart discussed the unique challenge of creating characters who are very different from anything she’s played before:
It was fun. It was defining itself every day. The script is such a diving board, and it's so astute in terms of how it offers itself to you. I hope that the movie does that as well, even though we've kind of peopled it.
Stewart then went deeper into what she found appealing in Me/Deja, and the questions the characters raised for her about identity:
But it just felt like anyone could have played that part, and so it felt like such an invitation to [say], "Well, okay, maybe it can be you." You're like, "Well, what does that mean? Who am I?" The whole movie is about trying to figure that out; reckoning with our sameness, our individuality, and finding ways to express that understanding. It changes all the time.
Stewart elaborated further on why she saw her Love Me role as a unique and interesting opportunity:
Really, in terms of character, I thought it was a nice, open-ended opportunity to allow that to become anything - which is kind of everything. You're kind of playing everyone. You're playing somebody who just wants to be seen.
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