Kristen Stewart calls for more wide-ranging discussions about LGBTQ films
Kristen Stewart is ready for conversations about films featuring queer and female stories to no longer focus on just that aspect of their identity, she told journalists at the Berlin Film Festival.
BERLIN — Kristen Stewart is ready for conversations about films featuring queer and female stories to no longer focus on just that aspect of their identity, she told journalists at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday.
“We can’t keep doing that thing where we tell everyone how to feel and where we sort of pat each other on the back and receive brownie points for providing space for marginalized voices, and only in the capacity that they are allowed to speak about that alone,” she said.
“The era of queer films being so pointedly only that is done.”
Stewart was back in Berlin to promote the gritty 1980s-set Southwestern U.S. crime-romance “Love Lies Bleeding” after serving as jury president at last year’s film festival.
Director Rose Glass’ second film after the religious thriller “Saint Maud” follows Stewart’s Lou — gym manager and daughter of a local crime lord — as she falls for Jackie, played by newcomer Katy O’Brian, who has drifted through town on her way to take part in a Las Vegas bodybuilding competition.
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