Stewart was flanked by French director Olivier Assayas, with whom she is preparing to shoot “Sils Maria,” a drama set — as luck would have it — in the world of theater.
“I play a personal assistant to an actress. It takes two very particular people to have that relationship be functional – one that services the other — because Juliette Binoche is playing the actress that I assist, and she is one of the most powerful women I think I’ve ever seen in film,” said the “Twilight” star.
Noting that her character is no pushover, Stewart said she would have to hold her own against the Oscar-winning Binoche. “I’m going to try desperately to not be squashed by a woman like that, and it’s not going to be an easy thing,” she said with a nervous laugh.
Assayas said he had written the movie around Binoche, with whom he previously worked on his 2008 film “Summer Hours.”
“I wanted to do a sort of portrait of an actress in her 40s, and I thought it would be more interesting to set it in the theater, because it gets rid of the material constraints of cinema,” he explained. “It’s about that very fine line between reality and imagination — actors are always somewhere in between.”
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