Kristen Stewart (proper) has spoken about intimate scenes in Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Kristen Stewart has opened up concerning the sapphic intercourse scenes in her new movie Love Lies Bleeding, explaining that the uncooked sexual subtext was important for plausible on-screen intimacy.
The bodybuilder romance thriller has already acquired rave opinions following its world premiere on the 2024 Sundance Movie Competition on Friday 20 January. Critics praised the lead actors’ “cracking chemistry”, dubbing the film a “hallucinatory journey down the darkest byways of Americana”.
Directed by Rose Glass of Saint Maud fame, Love Lies Bleeding’s tagline describes it as a “romance fuelled by ego, need and the American Dream”.
Set within the late Nineteen Eighties, the hit lesbian movie follows reclusive gymnasium supervisor Lou (Stewart) who meets and falls onerous for formidable bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian). Jackie rolls into Lou’s sleepy Nevada city on her approach to a Las Vegas bodybuilding competitors; the remainder is historical past.
The movie’s synopsis notes that the pair’s passionate relationship sees “their love igniting violence, pulling them deep into the net of Lou’s felony household”.
Now, the Spencer star has opened up about fostering on-screen intimacy with co-star O’Brian, explaining that there’s extra to the sapphic sexual moments between Lou and Jackie than “bodily manoeuvring”.
“It’s not about [showing] simulated intercourse on movie,” she instructed Them Journal. “I’m so embarrassed by that. I’m so sick of watching it. I’m so sick of doing it.”
“The ways in which you let the particular person you’re with both take over or be consumed, these have been selections, they usually have been very articulate, but nonverbal choices that we made collectively,” she mentioned of the intercourse scenes with O’Brian.
“And with out that dynamic, no person would have cum. Actually, you might virtually take the physique out of it. You can inform me the best factor, and that’s what’s going to get me there. Inform me I’m one thing to you. Inform me I may be taller than you, although I’m 5’5”, and also you’re f**king 5’10”, and I’m there.”
Love Lies Bleeding is out now in cinemas within the US and Australia. It’s set to hit cinemas within the UK on 3 Might 2024.