Kristen Stewart to star in competitive bodybuilding movie for Saint Maud‘s Rose Glass
Stewart will be playing the "protective lover" of a female bodybuilder in Love Lies Bleeding
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Kristen Stewart has lined up her next film role, with THR reporting that the Spencer star has signed on to co-star in Love Lies Bleeding, the latest film from Saint Maud director Rose Glass.
Tragically, while the film is being described as a romantic drama about competitive bodybuilders, we apparently will not get to see how much Stewart herself can bench; she’ll instead be playing a character described as “the protective lover of a female bodybuilder.” Still, the film is being described as being largely fixated on “a romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American dream,” and, yeah, now that you mention in, we would like to see Stewart explore those various themes, presumably while standing near large quantities of Muscle Milk.
Love Lies Bleeding will be Glass’ second feature as a director; her previous was the aforementioned Maud, which, like Love Lies, was set up at A24. In her review for us of Glass’ previous film, Katie Rife praised the director’s eye for color, and for staging “striking tableaux” within her tale of religious angst and “elevated” horror. Love Lies Bleeding sounds like it’ll be at least a little more grounded, but will presumably still benefit from Glass’ eye for big, bold visuals. She also co-wrote the script, working with Weronika Tofilska.
Stewart is, of course, fresh off her first Oscar nomination, for playing Princess Di in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer; her next big appearance will be in David Cronenberg’s upcoming Crimes Of The Future. She’s been steadily carving out interesting new roles for herself in recent years, whether anchoring the sparse action-horror film Underwater, providing a much-needed charisma injection for the most recent Charlie’s Angels movie, or pulling rom-com duties for Hulu in Happiest Season. No word yet on who’ll be pulling serving as her co-lead on Love Lies Bleeding.
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I expect any and all interviews with any person involved with this project to open with “How much ya bench?”
Kristen Stewart uncomfortably breaks off eye contact, rests her head on her hand, mutters, “Three seventy-five.”
I want to get one of those cemetery benches when I die for a headstone, and etch that onto it. If it’s in your will they have to do it., The law of the sea.
For her lover, are they going to give an already buff actress some spotlight or get an actress with an average physique to pump all the iron?
That reminds me of how in the second season of Hannibal the Verger siblings were added to the cast. Fuller decided that Margot’s description in the book (a roided out butch lesbian bodybuilder) seemed problematic, so instead he cast a thin femme brunette (just like so many other women on the show). I thought it was a real missed opportunity to get more visually distinctive, although I would hardly claim that faithfulness to that particular novel in general is a good idea.
I like Katharine Isabelle, but I would’ve preferred a more book accurate Margot. It’d be more empowering if if it was clear she literally & figuratively remade herself to overcome her trauma. At least she didn’t get cut out like the movie.
I hope KStew is playing the gf because they’re going jacked for the bodybuilder character. and the sudden-drastic-body-change thing actors do makes me feel gross for watching them.
It says she is playing the bodybuilder’s girlfriend, although there’s no reason why both characters couldn’t be buff.
it’s almost as if projects need to make their money back and name stars help
FIGHT MILK!!!
Also, Saint Maud was/is one of my favourite movies of the last several years, so I will definitely be keeping a close eye on this one.
CAWWWW!!!
Damn, I was hoping KStew would pull a Bale and just get SWOLE AS FUCK for a role. Oh well.
Well, that’s a letdown, unless K-Stew’s character’s lover is played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who does get super-jacked for the role. (Then stays that way for Queen’s Gambit II: Queen Me, Bitches)
They could do chess boxing, which is somehow a real thing.
I suddenly have a powerful need.
More like Swella Swan