US EditionIn ‘The Chronology of Water,’ Imogen Poots Found a Great Role, and a Best Friend in Kristen Stewart
Imogen Poots and Kristen Stewart deepened their friendship through swim training and water scenes while filming, with Poots embracing a new passion for swimming.
- This year Imogen Poots appears in Kristen Stewart's directorial debut The Chronology of Water, adapting Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, with their close collaboration continuing through texts and calls.
- Despite Stewart's admitted avoidance of water, she joined pool training and swim lessons, sending Poots a video showing laps, while Poots said they had to "completely hurl yourself into it".
- Through training and time in the water, Imogen Poots overcame fear, describing swim lessons and pool scenes as healing, meditative, and addictive, supported by ocean floating imagery.
- At its Cannes premiere earlier this year, both Stewart and Poots sat trembling and supporting each other, feeling high stakes and striving not to let the other down.
- This year Imogen Poots has seen something click in her busy career, leading to a clarifying moment and a reunion with Jeremy Saulnier, director, on a new film with Chase Sui Wonders and Cory Michael Smith.
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In 'The Chronology of Water,' Imogen Poots found a great role, and a best friend in Kristen Stewart
Imogen Poots has been working in film, television and theater for 20 years. But the 36-year-old said it's only been in the past two years that something has really clicked.
»Twilight« star Kristen Stewart doesn't want to earn anything on her next movie. The successful US actress made her debut as a director in May – and again criticizes the Hollywood system.
The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water, an adaptation of the celebrated memoir of the same title by Lidia Yuknavitch, heralds the feature directorial debut of actress Kristen Stewart. There is nothing timid in its 128-minute runtime as Stewart holds narrative convention at a distance and embraces experimentation. This is all the more impressive as the film is utterly dependent on a powerful yet nuanced lead performance by Imogen Poots as Yuknavitch. Adapting m…
Kristen Stewart Says Directors Need to Steal Their Movies, and She's Right
You probably know Kristen Stewart as the star of such Hollywood films as Underwater, Panic Room, and, of course, the Twilight franchise. But did you also know that Kristen Stewart starred in a pair of movies for French auteur Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper? Did you catch her committed role in director Rose Glass’ deliriously beautiful Love Lies Bleeding? Have you seen her directoral debut from this year, The Chronolog…
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