{"id":259152,"date":"2026-01-30T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:09:14","slug":"kristen-stewart-is-treated-like-she-has-a-brain-since-directorial-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259152\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart Is Treated Like She Has “A Brain” Since Directorial Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter more than 25 years of working on screen, Kristen Stewart<\/a> has recently tapped into a newfound sense of respect in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-nominated actress explained how she\u2019s suddenly treated \u201clike I\u2019m somebody with a brain\u201d since making her directorial debut on The Chronology of Water<\/a>, which premiered last year at Cannes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cActresses get treated like sh*t, I\u2019ve got to tell you,\u201d she told The Times UK<\/a>. \u201cPeople think anyone could be an actress, but the first time I sat down to talk about my movie as a director, I thought, wow, this is a different experience, they are talking to me like I\u2019m somebody with a brain.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart continued, \u201cThere\u2019s this idea that directors<\/a> have otherworldly abilities, which is not true. It\u2019s an idea perpetuated by men. Not to sound like I\u2019m complaining all the time, but it\u2019s worse for female actors than male ones \u2014 they get treated like puppets, but they are not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first-time auteur noted that Chronology of Water star Imogen Poots \u201cput her whole body and soul into this movie,\u201d adding: \u201cFilm is 100 per cent all-consuming. I was a maniac on this movie. I barely existed outside of it, but I\u2019ve never felt more alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Imogen<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Chronology of Water\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLes Films Du Losange<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water stars Poots as the author, a young woman who becomes a competitive swimmer following an abusive childhood. The film is now playing in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 25 years of working on screen, Kristen Stewart has recently tapped into a newfound sense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,6948,156,31191,14913,111,139,69,27996],"class_list":["post-259152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-gender-equality","tag-kristen-stewart","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-chronology-of-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}