Kristen Stewart: “It’s Incredibly Violent to Be a Woman”

Kristen Stewart: “It’s Incredibly Violent to Be a Woman”

these stories that fuel your life, they must be designed from an internal place. Like uh you know, we get shoved just like just prescribed stories just like shoved into our faces down our throats. Like whether or not you can relate to the explicit violation that that we depict in the film or or not. Having a female body in this day and age, walking around with it, we’re stolen from. The theory is like wild. I mean, even just like the image based the imagery, the imagery that we consume, the conversations that are not allowed, the fact that we can’t tell people when we’re bleeding because that’s like gross or something. Um, I don’t know. like uh it’s the reason that I wanted to make this was to screw with form because it really is so much in talking about the book and trying to talk about what it’s about and trying to talk about what the movie is about. It becomes immediately reductive because it’s not about what happened to Lydia Yuknovich. It’s what happens to us all and how we can sort of internalize that violence which is I know it sounds dramatic but it’s true. It’s incredibly violent to be a woman. It’s really visceral. To take the pain and make it feel good, the only way you can do that is to reframe it and like reward it. And uh you know the hairline fracture between pain and pleasure is just like I mean it it it’s it’s it’s really nice to be able to repossess shame and like own it and eat Yeah.

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