Q&A: Kristen Stewart, Rose Glass and Katy O'Brian on their ‘fun, sweaty, violent’ film
Rose Glass’ first film “Saint Maud,” was a chilling picture of faith and madness
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristen Stewart knows that not everyone should make movies. She also knows that Rose Glass should.
The 34-year-old English director and screenwriter is one of those rare original storytellers with daring things to say and the vision to do them justice. In other words, definitely not “everybody.” Glass' first film “ Saint Maud,” was a chilling picture of faith and madness. Her second, “ Love Lies Bleeding ” (expanding in theaters this weekend) is also kind of about madness but of different sorts – that of love, of power and of strength (the literal kind).
“I wanted to make something kind of fun and sweaty and violent,” Glass said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Moviemaking may be a risk-averse business, but Glass and her collaborators are not. Set in the American West in the 1980s, Stewart plays Lou, an introverted gym manager and daughter of a local conman (Ed Harris) who gets swept up in the fever dream of new love with an aspiring bodybuilder, Jackie (Katy O’Brian), who's passing through town.
