- Title: Kristen Stewart feels at home making movies in France
- Date: 18th May 2016
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 18, 2016) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (French) DIRECTOR, OLIVIER ASSAYAS, SAYING: "I often meet actors with whom I'd like to work or who want to work with me, it's always amicable but at some point there must be a meeting with the writing style, with a character and that is not something you can invent or impose but it is true that when I wrote 'Clouds of Sils Maria' it was fitting for Kristen and that was the opportunity to prolong this desire, this intuition to meet and talk. I realised when I saw her, talked to her, listened to her that she had unique actress qualities."
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- Keywords: Personal Shopper Kirsten Stewart Cannes film festival Oliver Assayas
- Location: CANNES, FRANCE / USA / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: CANNES, FRANCE / USA / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: France
- Topics: Film
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- Story Text:Actress Kristen Stewart told Reuters she is more at home with France's cinematic culture than Hollywood's, as the focus is less on making money.
The star of French director Olivier Assayas's independent film "Personal Shopper", Stewart is at the Cannes Film Festival to help promote the movie, where it is competing for the Palme d'Or.
The actress told Reuters on Wednesday (May 18) that she likes the risk involved in making films with "a culture that's felt".
"What is really obvious and apparent is the difference between why people make movies in France and why people make movies in the States," she said.
"I like the fact that people aren't dying to make a bunch of money and win a popularity contest, they're actually just desirous of telling stories - so I feel at home here."
Stewart became the first American actress to win a Cesar, France's Oscar equivalent, with a Best Supporting Actress award in 2015 for "Clouds of Sils Maria", also directed by Assayas.
"I realised when I saw her, talked to her, listened to her that she had unique actress qualities," Assayas told Reuters.
Stewart is no newcomer to independent cinema. She starred in independent movies before, in-between and after the Twilight series, between 2008 and 2012, including Jake Scott's "Welcome to the Rileys" and Walter Salles's "On The Road".
"'Twilight' may have sort of distracted people from what I had been doing for a long time - but even within that series there were five Twilight films and in between each one of them I did an independent movie," she said.
The 26-year-old said that she is looking forward to working with Assayas again.
"I feel like there is no way in hell that we're not going to explore another subject together I just don't know when that's going to be," she said.
"This was lucky that it was in such a condensed period - he has other things to do and other stories to tell and I'll go do the same for a bit but hopefully we find each other again."
Stewart also co-stars with Jesse Eisenberg in Woody Allen's out-of-competition film, "Cafe Society", at Cannes. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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