- Is this like, a "Twilight" movie? No, okay, hold on. What does that mean? Oh god, I hated this line. I hated this line. "Variety." It's the spice of life. (upbeat music) (keyboard clacking) "Will they kill me, do you think?" I know what that's from. I have a visceral memory
of this. (chuckling) I say that at some point in "Spencer." (graphic chiming) - Will they kill me, do you think? - Primarily, it was about
kind of absorbing her feeling. I know that sounds so obvious, but I had to focus on how she made me feel and just kind of internalize that, take it on physically somehow. I had a really brilliant coach that helped me kind of source
my inclinations toward her, and kind of the ways that we were similar were what I wanted to focus on versus the things that made us dissimilar, and the things that I
felt tied to her with were really palpable to me, so I just sort of kind of thought, if I could focus on those things and distract people from the
things that were not the same, and then kind of forget all
of that and take the ride, which was pretty surreal
and not very factual. It was like a weird,
fevery, poemy experience. I had to kind of trust fall into it. (Kristen clicking tongue) Thank you. Okay, "How long have you been 17?" I still feel 17. Sometimes, or at least
in context such as these. Oh, this is from "Twilight." (graphic chiming) (chuckling) The first one. - How long have you been 17? - We started when I was 17. We finished up when I was like around, yeah, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. I'm really good at math, five years. To stick with something for that long, it's not like a very actory thing to do. We all have this like, embedded,
(snapping) flitty nature. I wanna try on all the shoes and they were the same shoes for so long. It was a trippy experience to create something that
was entirely around, but then in the service of something that people love so much. The guttural nature of the word Bella. I can't hear, the name Bella, (chuckling) like, that has really- All I can hear right now when I'm trying to just
press rewind is just Bella. - Bella. - Everyone just referring
constantly to her, even if she's not in the scene, or yeah, like, I was just like, enough, Bella needs to go to bed. Bella needs to just go chill for a while. "No guys. I wanna start an all-girl
rock band." (chuckling) That's from "The Runaways." (graphic chiming) - No guys. I wanna start an all-girl rock band. - I was so scared to play her. I was so obsessed with Joan, and the movie itself was such a kind of, just a droplet in such a larger
life that I did feel like, an immense pressure to
kind of get all of it in, even though it was just a glimpse in sort of the formative years
of like, really just the band that made her wanna be in a
band for the rest of her life, which is a pretty revolutionary thing for a girl at that time to wanna do. The whole time I was just like,
turning myself inside out, wondering if she was down with
how it was all coming out. It was such a nice opportunity to kind of go in a mosh pit and get out some energy, and be able to come back
to everything else like, (sighing) lighter. "Did you know that it takes men an additional seven seconds to perceive-" This was a mouthful at the time. "A woman as a threat compared to a man?" "Did you know that it takes
men an additional seven seconds to perceive a woman as a
threat compared to a man?" Uh, yeah, I remember saying that. That was from a little film
called the, "Charlie's Angels." (graphic chiming) - It takes men an additional seven seconds to perceive a woman as a
threat compared to a man. - We wanted a strong opener, you know? We wanted to really like, broadcast what the movie
was about. (chuckling) It was a good idea at the time. Um. I hated making that movie. (laughing) I don't know what else to say to you. Honestly, the three, you can't touch like,
Cameron, Lucy, and Drew. I love that movie. I love that movie. If that says anything. (clicking tongue) "It's not about owning her, it's about building a life with her." Um. Is this like, a "Twilight" movie? No? Okay, hold on. (Kristen chuckling) I'm gonna do a Kristen
Stewart impression to get it. "It's not about owning her, it's about building a life-" "Happiest Season." (laughing) (graphic chiming) - "It's not about owning her, it's about building a life with her." - It's a gay Christmas movie. All Christmas movies are pretty gay. I think it's just sort of like, the most straightforward one. (chuckling) I really love little, tiny movies. I love ones that you don't always know how you feel about them. Those don't sell as easily, and so it was nice to
be a part of something that you just know exactly
how you feel about it, and it was nice to (sighing) not feel like we were
doing human impressions, but to actually be the humans that we are, and in a context that felt easy and light in a time where we're kind of finally starting to broaden perspective. It was kind of the most
rebellious thing we could do is acknowledge that it
hadn't been done before. And then we could go do the wild, bloody, you know, edgy, in your face stuff, because we were also like, also we're, just wanna have a good time. Thank you for bringing
this back to my memory. It was a good one. "Surgery is the new sex." Yeah. What does that mean? (laughing) I don't know if anyone on the
movie actually knows. (scoffs) Yeah, so that's from
"Crimes of the Future." (graphic chiming) It's a David Cronenberg movie. - Surgery is the new sex. - It's a part of David's like,
utter genius is that you go, this made me feel a lot,
and it put me in my body, and it kickstarted a thought process that nobody can untangle, but
nobody can stop talking about. I loved making that movie. Also, Viggo is like, a legend. He's the hottest guy I've
ever seen in my life. I was like, I can't believe
I'm allowed to do this. I was there for two weeks. We were in Athens. It was like, so fucking
hot the entire time. I can't believe I got to be in that movie. Like, so lucky. "You know, a little reefer
would take the edge off him." When, what year is it? A little- "You know, a little
reefer would take the-" "American Ultra?" No. (buzzer beeping) Oh, okay. That makes sense. Oh, yeah. Oh god, I hated this line. I hated this line. I felt like it was like a faux- In fact, I have the same
response to it right now. I'm like, what is this, like 1970? Like, I just- Yeah, a little reefer. - "You know, a little reefer
would take the edge off him." - There's not like, tons
and tons of information about this person. She was like, such a suppressed person. She was an activist in a time where her government was
really had villainized her to the extent that she was
like, a dangerous reject. The end of her life is
tragically cut short. She's an actress that I
think was like very present, and honest, and wanted to work for the kind of similar reasons that I do, which is you wanna get
closer to people in yourself versus tell other people's stories and kind of be a puppet or a mouthpiece. But I had to fill in a lot of the blanks, so actually, it was a personal endeavor moreso than it was getting her right. "So, we made this oath. Whoever died first would
send the other a sign." That's from "Personal Shopper." (graphic chiming) - "Whoever died first would
send the other a sign." - It's an Olivier Assayass movie. It's the second one we did together, and I, while making this movie, we were like, so tired,
and like, so scared. It was the weirdest existential spiral I've ever had on a movie
that was not fake at all. Like, I wasn't generating that. I think that movie is (sighing) is probably different for everyone, so I don't wanna like, lead the witness, but you don't have to believe
in ghosts for them to be real. There are present feelings that are more legitimate
than alive things, and there are dead things that are more present than alive things. I'm definitely scared of ghosts, but I don't know if they're real. I don't think we have
words for this. (chuckling) I think that we definitely
have goosebumps for a reason. I think that there are through
lines and coincidences, and I think there's an internal life that is inarticulatable. "Do you drink to drown on your
sorrows or your conscience?" This is in an accent. And yeah, it was early. It's "Snow White." (graphic chiming) Yeah. - Do you drink to drown your
sorrows or your conscience? - It's a tough one. It deals with some deals
with some- (chuckling) Deals with some real
present female issues. Charlize is one of the most stunning and truly powerful people
to stand in a room with that you can encounter in life. And I was kind of in a time in my life where I really was like,
vulnerable, and small, and like, insecure, but then also like, kind of raging quietly. (chuckling) You know, Charlize is like a really, really fun scene partner. And so the whole time I was just like, I feel so bad for the queen, actually. She's not bad, she's just
been dealt rough set of cards. Anytime there are castles involved, like, women are being locked
somewhere. (chuckling) It just felt like kind
of a really cool way to tell that story that was fun, and like, take a fairytale
and turn it on its head a bit. (chuckling) That's nice. Oh, that's nice of you. This is my movie. (laughing) "You're getting water in my mouth." Oh, it's called "Come Swim." (graphic chiming) Yeah. - [Sydney] You're getting
water in my mouth. - This was really cool because I put the two
actors that I worked with, which were two of my really
great friends, into a pool, and I just told them
to kind of play around. Really, even if you took all
the pictures outta that movie, it was a soundscape that I thought was still pretty experiential. Even though the movie does sort of relate to
a heartbreak element, it kind of does supersede that, so I put this like, couple in a pool, and was like, just try and make 'em float. And they're like, playing around, and he kept pushing her off,
and she kept going like, "Oh, stop, you're getting
water in my mouth." And I was like, oh, wow, if we just like, pull that through the rest of the movie, you can take a memory
that was really happy, but then it's sort of transmuted by time, and your memory starts to sort of morph it into something else. And if you're sad about someone, something that was fun
once is now really painful. So it's sort of started out as like LOL, you're getting water in my mouth. And now it's like, you're
getting water in mouth. You're getting water in my mouth. And then it was just sort
of about this kid like, drowning in his memories. I haven't been to Sundance in a minute. The last time I was there
I was with my short film. I feel so at home there. I feel obviously, like, you know, that festival was designed
for people like me. I love that place. The two movies that I'm
there with this year are called "Love Lies Bleeding," by an English director, actually, about a really particular
slice of the US of A, kind of an odd imagining
of an '80s fever dream in which I think Rose
was kind of encouraged to tell a strong female story. And then the other one
is called "Love Me." It is a very touching
story about all of us. It takes place in a time
where we have become extinct and the internet is still
kind of our last footprint. I wanna go watch more movies. I know everyone says that about festivals when they're there with a film, but I would love to stay and
watch the shorts program. It's not the same as it was when everyone was wearing Ugg boots when I was there in the early 2000s. What am I saying? Like, yeah, I bet that's
exactly what it's gonna be, and then I'm gonna be like, "You know, when I first came to Sundance, I got my first parka." (upbeat music)
