Kristen Stewart: «Controllo tutto, ma ho capito l’importanza di lasciarsi andare»
Si definisce cervellotica e con la necessità di controllare tutto. Per sopravvivere, però, bisogna abbandonarsi alla corrente. Parola di un’attrice (ora anche regista) che ha imparato a nuotare in acque tempestose. A noi racconta perché ha cambiato ancora stile e preso coraggio. Fino a fare coming out...
di Alessandra Venezia | 20170624
Doverosa premessa: ho sempre avuto un debole per Kristen Stewart. Sulla t-shirt che indossava al nostro primo incontro - aveva 16 anni – campeggiavano John e Yoko, e per spiegarmi i suoi progetti citava gli scrittori che l’avevano colpita, gli artisti e i poeti più cari. Io sugli appunti di quel giorno avevo scarabocchiato: «Carina da morire, sottile, dolce, sveglia, espressiva».
Passammo due ore insieme: lei giocherellava con degli stuzzichini orientali e raccontava che viveva con la famiglia nella Valle di Los Angeles, le piaceva suonare la chitarra, leggere e scrivere poesie, ma aveva pochi amici. Ricordo che leggeva Vicolo Cannery di John Steinbeck e Jodie Foster, con cui aveva girato Panic Room, era il suo idolo. L’ho poi seguita sempre con grande simpatia, forse affetto (ha la stessa età e le stesse reazioni idiosincratiche di mia figlia) nelle sue diverse incarnazioni: dall’adolescente tormentata alla superstar internazionale di Twilight, dall’eroina del cinema indipendente all’imprevedibile icona per Chanel.
Dopo complicati trascorsi sentimentali - la sua storia con Robert Pattinson è stata seguita ossessivamente dalla stampa di tutto il mondo - ora fa coppia con la top model Stella Maxwell. Kristen è oggi una giovane donna dalla sensualità ibrida, disinibita. Ha sorpreso la sua dichiarazione di essere “SO gay”, così gay (rivolgendosi al Presidente Trump), durante lo show Saturday Night Live, ma lei rintuzza: «Lo trovo importante: nascondere il fatto che stai con una ragazza è diverso dal celare la tua storia con un ragazzo; implica una forma di vergogna, e questo non è ok. Per questo l’ho detto apertamente, anche se odio fare trapelare dettagli della mia vita privata».
Recentemente Kristen è diventata la prima attrice americana a vincere un premio César con la sua intepretazione in Sils Maria e ha conquistato nuovamente i critici con Personal Shopper – sua seconda esperienza con il regista francese Olivier Assayas. All’ultimo festival di Cannes ha debuttato come regista con il corto Come Swim, che lei descrive come «il ritratto poetico-impressionista, subacqueo, di un uomo dal cuore spezzato». L’attrice ventisettenne, più loquace di un tempo, ce ne parla oggi. Io, confermo decisamente l’impressione di una decina di anni fa: Kristen è vivace, attraente, intelligente, espressiva e sensibile. Oggi aggiungerei: coraggiosa e con un talento innegabile.
Perché Come Swim? Ha un rapporto appassionato con l’acqua?
Per niente, a me l’acqua non piace: sono claustrofobica, non amo la spiaggia e tanto meno nuotare. In più ho un po’ la fissa di essere sempre presente a me stessa, tendo a pensare troppo, sono cervellotica, e non amo lasciarmi andare. Abbiamo bisogno dell’acqua per sopravvivere, ma lei è molto più forte di noi. L’idea di fondo del mio film è che non si può esercitare controllo su tutto, l’unico modo per restare a galla è abbandonarsi alla corrente. Devi galleggiare se vuoi vivere, se combatti contro l’acqua finisci spossato e anneghi. Ma se riesci a lasciarti andare, a diventare leggera, rimani a galla. Questa era l’idea del film.
Come Swim è ispirato a un quadro.
Mi ci sono voluti quattro anni per dare forma all’idea, prima l’ho dipinta, poi ho passato in rassegna quello che avevo scritto negli ultimi anni: rileggendo le mie poesie, mi sono resa conto che ho continuato a scrivere e riscrivere le stesse cose, seppure con parole diverse. Dovevo liberarmene una volta per tutte.
Ci è riuscita?
Non del tutto, questo mio lavoro andrà approfondito, ampliato. Mi ero fissata con l’idea di un uomo sdraiato in un habitat che non gli appartiene, col desiderio di isolarsi. Vedere qualcuno che dorme sul fondale dell’oceano è un’immagine sconcertante, allarmante, eppure a me dà un immenso piacere.
A ogni suo taglio di capelli o cambiamento di stile le riviste di moda vanno in visibilio: ne analizzano dettagli e impliciti messaggi. Cosa dobbiamo pensare dei suoi capelli platino rasati?
Me li sono tagliati per Under Water, un action movie girato tutto sott’acqua, sempre imprigionata in una muta di 50 chili! Non sentivo neanche più le spalle, ero semiparalizzata… Mi sembrava di essere pronta per un ruolo d’azione, ma poi, scoprendo completamente il viso, mi sono sentita più vulnerabile e delicata, più femminile. Non me l’aspettavo.
Collabora con Karl Lagerfeld per Chanel e in Personal Shopper il suo personaggio è una stylist. I vestiti per lei hanno un’anima?
Sono un grande fan dell’arte della moda. Eh sì, i vestiti possono raccontare delle storie e tra i miei artisti preferiti ci sono designer o chi “fa” i vestiti creando immagini, i fotografi di moda o anche i truccatori.
Scrive, recita, dirige. Quale sarà il suo prossimo progetto?
Presto comincerò a girare JT, la vera storia di J.T. LeRoy. Io interpreto Savannah Knoop la ragazza che finse per anni di essere uno scrittore transessuale. Savannah è un’artista meravigliosa, una persona sensibile, coinvolta in una faccenda su cui non aveva alcun controllo, una storia davvero interessante. Tra un film e l’altro scriverò e cercherò un altro progetto da dirigere. Non vedo una gran differenza tra essere attore e regista: le due attività si sovrappongono, si completano.
Ha cominciato a recitare a 9 anni. Cosa la sorprende ancora del lavoro di attrice?
Poco. È il mondo in cui sono cresciuta; mia madre si occupa di revisioni di sceneggiature, mio padre è uno stage manager e io ho sempre considerato il cinema un lavoro molto pratico. Anche da piccola mi piaceva l’energia del set, poi un giorno, con mio grande stupore, ho scoperto che recitare era quello che volevo veramente fare. Mi ha sorpreso vedere come ogni cellula del mio corpo esprimeva questo mio amore: adoro fare l’attore…
Kristen Stewart: "I control everything, but I understand the importance of letting go"
It is defined as cervellotica and with the need to control everything. To survive, however, you have to abandon the current. The word of an actress (now director) who has learned to swim in stormy waters. He tells us why he has changed style and took courage. How to get out ...
By Alessandra Venezia | 20170624
Deductive premise: I've always had a weakness for Kristen Stewart. On the t-shirt he wore at our first meeting - he was 16 - John and Yoko camped, and to explain his plans cited the writers who had struck him, the most dearest artists and poets. On that day's note I had scribbled: "Cute to die, thin, sweet, awake, expressive."
We spent two hours together: she fought with Oriental appetizers and told her that she lived with her family in the Los Angeles Valley, liked to play guitar, read and write poems but had few friends. I remember reading Vicolo Cannery by John Steinbeck and Jodie Foster, with whom he had shot Panic Room, was his idol. I always followed her with great sympathy, perhaps affection (he has the same age and idiosyncratic reactions of my daughter) in her different incarnations: from the teenager tormented to the international superstar of Twilight, from the heroine of independent cinema to the unpredictable Icon for Chanel.
After complicated sentimental passages - her story with Robert Pattinson was obsessively followed by the press all over the world - she now pairs with the top model Stella Maxwell. Kristen is today a young woman with hybrid, disinhibited sensuality. He was surprised by his statement of being "SO gay", so gay (turning to President Trump) during the Saturday Night Live show, but she said, "I find it important to hide the fact that being with a girl is different from hiding the Your story with a guy; Implies a form of shame, and this is not ok. That's why I said it openly, even if I hate to leak details of my private life."
Kristen has recently become the first American actress to win a César award with her interpretation in Sils Maria and has once more conquered critics with Personal Shopper - her second experience with French director Olivier Assayas. At the last Cannes Film Festival he debuted as director with the short As Swim, which she describes as "the poetic-impressionist portrait, underwater, of a broken hearted man." The twenty-seven-year-old actress, more talkative than ever, talks about it today. I, I firmly endorse the impression of a decade ago: Kristen is lively, attractive, intelligent, expressive and sensitive. Today I would add: courageous and undeniable talent.
Why Do You Swim? Do you have a passionate relationship with water?
For nothing, the water does not like me: I'm claustrophobic, I do not love the beach and much less to swim. Plus, I'm a little afraid to be always present to myself, I tend to think too much, I'm curiosity, and I do not like letting myself go. We need water to survive, but she's a lot stronger than we do. The underlying idea of my movie is that you can not control everything, the only way to stay afloat is to abandon the current. You have to float if you want to live, if you fight against the water you end up drowned and drown. But if you can let go, to become light, stay afloat. This was the idea of the film.
How Swim is inspired by a picture.
It took me four years to shape the idea, before I painted it, then I reviewed what I had written in recent years: re-reading my poems, I realized that I continued to write and rewrite the same Things, albeit with different words. I had to get rid of it once and for all.
Did it succeed?
Not entirely, this work will go deeper, expanded. I was fixed with the idea of a man lying in a habitat that does not belong to him, with the desire to isolate himself. Seeing someone sleeping on the ocean floor is a disconcerting, alarming image, yet it gives me immense pleasure. Every style of haircut or style change goes to the fashion magazines: they analyze details and implicit messages. What do we need to think of his shaved platinum hair? I'm cut for Under Water, an action movie shot all underwater, always imprisoned in a 50-pound dick! I did not even feel over my shoulder, I was half-cared for ... I seemed to be ready for an action, but then, finding my face completely, I felt more vulnerable and delicate, more feminine. I did not expect it.
He collaborates with Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and in Personal Shopper his character is a stylist. Do your clothes have a soul?
I'm a big fan of fashion art. Yes, the clothes can tell stories and among my favorite artists there are designers or those who "make" clothes by creating pictures, fashion photographers or even makeup artists.
He writes, says, directs. What will be your next project?
Soon I will start turning JT, the true story of J.T. LeRoy. I interpret Savannah Knoop the girl who for years had been a transsexual writer. Savannah is a wonderful artist, a sensitive person, involved in a matter he did not have any control, a really interesting story. I'll write in one movie and I will look for another project to run. I do not see much difference between being an actor and a director: the two activities overlap, complete.
She began to play at 9 years. What still surprises her about the actress's work?
Shortly. It is the world in which I grew up; My mother deals with script reviews, my dad is a stage manager and I've always considered cinema a very practical job. Even as a kid I loved the set energy, then one day, with my great amazement, I found that acting was what I really wanted to do. I was surprised to see how each cell of my body expressed this my love: I love doing the actor ...
It is defined as cervellotica and with the need to control everything. To survive, however, you have to abandon the current. The word of an actress (now director) who has learned to swim in stormy waters. He tells us why he has changed style and took courage. How to get out ...
By Alessandra Venezia | 20170624
Deductive premise: I've always had a weakness for Kristen Stewart. On the t-shirt he wore at our first meeting - he was 16 - John and Yoko camped, and to explain his plans cited the writers who had struck him, the most dearest artists and poets. On that day's note I had scribbled: "Cute to die, thin, sweet, awake, expressive."
We spent two hours together: she fought with Oriental appetizers and told her that she lived with her family in the Los Angeles Valley, liked to play guitar, read and write poems but had few friends. I remember reading Vicolo Cannery by John Steinbeck and Jodie Foster, with whom he had shot Panic Room, was his idol. I always followed her with great sympathy, perhaps affection (he has the same age and idiosyncratic reactions of my daughter) in her different incarnations: from the teenager tormented to the international superstar of Twilight, from the heroine of independent cinema to the unpredictable Icon for Chanel.
After complicated sentimental passages - her story with Robert Pattinson was obsessively followed by the press all over the world - she now pairs with the top model Stella Maxwell. Kristen is today a young woman with hybrid, disinhibited sensuality. He was surprised by his statement of being "SO gay", so gay (turning to President Trump) during the Saturday Night Live show, but she said, "I find it important to hide the fact that being with a girl is different from hiding the Your story with a guy; Implies a form of shame, and this is not ok. That's why I said it openly, even if I hate to leak details of my private life."
Kristen has recently become the first American actress to win a César award with her interpretation in Sils Maria and has once more conquered critics with Personal Shopper - her second experience with French director Olivier Assayas. At the last Cannes Film Festival he debuted as director with the short As Swim, which she describes as "the poetic-impressionist portrait, underwater, of a broken hearted man." The twenty-seven-year-old actress, more talkative than ever, talks about it today. I, I firmly endorse the impression of a decade ago: Kristen is lively, attractive, intelligent, expressive and sensitive. Today I would add: courageous and undeniable talent.
Why Do You Swim? Do you have a passionate relationship with water?
For nothing, the water does not like me: I'm claustrophobic, I do not love the beach and much less to swim. Plus, I'm a little afraid to be always present to myself, I tend to think too much, I'm curiosity, and I do not like letting myself go. We need water to survive, but she's a lot stronger than we do. The underlying idea of my movie is that you can not control everything, the only way to stay afloat is to abandon the current. You have to float if you want to live, if you fight against the water you end up drowned and drown. But if you can let go, to become light, stay afloat. This was the idea of the film.
How Swim is inspired by a picture.
It took me four years to shape the idea, before I painted it, then I reviewed what I had written in recent years: re-reading my poems, I realized that I continued to write and rewrite the same Things, albeit with different words. I had to get rid of it once and for all.
Did it succeed?
Not entirely, this work will go deeper, expanded. I was fixed with the idea of a man lying in a habitat that does not belong to him, with the desire to isolate himself. Seeing someone sleeping on the ocean floor is a disconcerting, alarming image, yet it gives me immense pleasure. Every style of haircut or style change goes to the fashion magazines: they analyze details and implicit messages. What do we need to think of his shaved platinum hair? I'm cut for Under Water, an action movie shot all underwater, always imprisoned in a 50-pound dick! I did not even feel over my shoulder, I was half-cared for ... I seemed to be ready for an action, but then, finding my face completely, I felt more vulnerable and delicate, more feminine. I did not expect it.
He collaborates with Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and in Personal Shopper his character is a stylist. Do your clothes have a soul?
I'm a big fan of fashion art. Yes, the clothes can tell stories and among my favorite artists there are designers or those who "make" clothes by creating pictures, fashion photographers or even makeup artists.
He writes, says, directs. What will be your next project?
Soon I will start turning JT, the true story of J.T. LeRoy. I interpret Savannah Knoop the girl who for years had been a transsexual writer. Savannah is a wonderful artist, a sensitive person, involved in a matter he did not have any control, a really interesting story. I'll write in one movie and I will look for another project to run. I do not see much difference between being an actor and a director: the two activities overlap, complete.
She began to play at 9 years. What still surprises her about the actress's work?
Shortly. It is the world in which I grew up; My mother deals with script reviews, my dad is a stage manager and I've always considered cinema a very practical job. Even as a kid I loved the set energy, then one day, with my great amazement, I found that acting was what I really wanted to do. I was surprised to see how each cell of my body expressed this my love: I love doing the actor ...
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