Fan Forum - {QUEEN} Kristen Jaymes Stewart ♥ #38: Because she is finally living her life like she wants no matter what anyone says...

Translation:
TV host (the blonde girl) Anne-Sophie :
Bonsoir Kristen…
Kristen: Bonsoir?! What time is it?
Anne-Sophie: Yes, it’s late for us, but it might be early for you for you… (the interview was tapped during the
day but the show is usually broadcasted at 7 PM). We are extremely proud and happy to welcome you in CàVous to talk about Personal Shopper, which is your movie Olivier. That movie that gave you the Best Director prize at the last Cannes festival. (To Kristen), Did Olivier propose you this role right after Sils Maria?
Kristen: Not directly after.
Olivier: Not it was like a year or something after…
Anne-Sophie: So it was after the success and after the Cesar… Did you write it for Kristen? You can say it…
Olivier: I can admit now…
Laughter
Anne-Sophie to Pierre Lescure (co-president of the Cannes festival and ex CEO of Canal +, the equivalent of HBO): Pierre, please introduce us this film, Personal Shopper…
Pierre Lescure: It’s a movie about Spiritism, about spirituality, about a ghost. It’s a movie about twins. It’s a movie about luxury and beauty and their deepness despite everything. It’s a movie about awakening in the sensuality. It’s a movie about life stronger than death. And it’s a great movie too.
Kristen Stewart, you’re in every scene, from the first frame to the last one, except in some empty elevators.
But I won’t say more. It’s not a movie about you, but it wouldn’t exist without you. Your loneliness among the others, your such great talent with shades, with little details, stick us deeply to the film. You’re like a Hitchcock heroine in an Asian movie about ghosts, but signed and cooked by Olivier Assayas. The atmosphere created is extremely beautiful. And the lack of baroque in front of the ghosts, the choice of naturalism, confirm our trouble, that what we were talking about with Anne-Sophie earlier. And there are also lights, photography, everything which resulted in the prize for best director at Cannes and allowed us to welcome you on the top of the stairs. Personal Shoppen takes place in Paris. Kristen and her fantastic American accent. And I was very comfortable
because all the characters around are Parisians and speak in English with a hell of a French accent. Did I tell you that Kristen Stewart was in every scene from the first frame to the last one?

Anne-Sophie: Yeah, yeah, you did…except in empty elevators… Now that we have a good introduction, we’re going to watch the trailer…

Anne-Sophie: Kristen, your character is mourning, with a big fragility, she’s not “glamour”, she’s pale, she doesn’t smile. You are the star, you are the muse. Do you breathe better in those anti-star roles?

Kristen: Not generally! But here, I play someone who’s really complicated, and I hope, even if it’s a bit sad, and
a bit dramatic, that when this desperation becomes a bit human, especially by the end, I think, well I hope she’s sweet, she’s a very nice person. She’s not really nice during the movie but by the end, she’s more human that at the beginning. I hope people will see it. But it’s true that I do genuinely prefer to play non glamourous roles.

Anne-Sophie: Do you have a personal assistant or a personal shopper?

Kristen: No. All of us actresses work with what we call stylists. Those clothes aren’t mine. I have to give them back once I’ll be done. But I don’t have a personal assistant or people who shop for me, no.

Anne-Sophie: So I can’t ask anyone if you’re easy to manage?

Kristen: Right, no. But I think I would be. I’ve had people who helped me on some movies. They helped me by buying tooth paste, and I always ask “wait, are you hungry? Do you want to go for lunch?”
I don’t ask things directly actually. I’m like “Let’s go to eat”. And I’m told that it’s a job to go buy me
food but I prefer when we eat together.

Anne-Elisabeth (the other blonde girl): Olivier, you could answer?! Is Kristen easy or not easy?

Olivier: Kristen is like everybody else. She’s very demanding and at the same time she couldn’t be easier. Working together has always been very simple, very obvious, because I feel like we manage to communicate in a non-verbal way. There’s intuition and instinct, something really similar that make things easier.

Anne-Elisabeth: Kristen, you feel like this film was particularly demanding, 16 hours a day of shooting, 6 days a
week. It was exhausting. You play someone who’s exhausted on screen, but you were exhausted too.

Kristen: Oh yeah totally. I drifted myself into the ground. It was what I had to do for this movie. I also think
that the workload was deeply underestimated when we started. Then we let the movie reveal itself. Everything you see in the movie really was a discovery. So loneliness, isolation, exhaustion, everything just became greater every day and by the end, well we had to finish it, but I had to find myself again. But it was
great to lose myself too.

Anne-Elisabeth: But you love these roles. You know it will be hard, and that’s why you accept to do it. You said: “This movie will kill me but that’s what I love.” You’re a bit masochistic…

Kristen: I’m such a masochist! (Laughter) At least artistically, unless something is a little scary, I usually
don’t find it valuable. So yes I was scared, but I was definitely going for it.

Olivier: But I really agree with Kristen. I need to be scared too. When I make a movie, I need to feel like I
don’t know how to make it and like I will never be able to make it. I need to be scared to do something that will be true and authentic but I have to go look after it.

Pierre Lescure: At the same time, you both know that talking with ghosts don’t always works.

Olivier: I think it’s relatively easy to talk to the dead people, the problem is that they don’t always talk back.

Pierre: I had the pleasure to talk to the great rock lover, your brother, Mishka (he’s a rock music critic and
wrote many books about music), this morning, he said that Elvis was well dead but Jimi Hendrix doesn’t answer his texts.

(Laughter)

Anne-Elisabeth: Kristen, the fantasy/fantastic cinema is a bit the one that did reveal you to a bigger audience in 2009, when the world got to know you playing Bella, who didn’t speak with the ghosts but fell in love with a vampire. It could have been hard to believe it. There were 5 movies with a phenomenal success. It began in 2009. Let’s watch this.

AN OLD REPORT OF 2009 ABOUT NEW MOON

Kristen: Yes!

Laughter!

Kristen: Those people are definitely not dead.

Anne-Elisabeth: You were 18 years old, and you said: “I became excessively, ridiculously and stupidly famous."

Kristen: Yes! I did. It really happened overnight. I was making movies since I was 9. I was doing my best to
go through the profession. I was trying to follow my way. And I was happy and stimulated. I worked all the time. And then the definition of my work changed a little bit. Or a lot. It’s true that I love those little esoteric movies for a small group, but at the same time I also like to reach so much people. It was, I think, the greatest
human energy one could get and it’s an experience that many don’t ever live. I’m really grateful but it was surreal.

Anne-Elisabeth: And nothing could prepare you for that?

Kristen: No. Not even the experience. You have to be a sociopath to get prepared for that.

Anne-Sophie: To relax you, we met the producer of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, Charles Gillibert… Watch this!

SHORT INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES GILLIBERT

Q: Why did you choose Olivier?

Charles: Olivier chose me more than
I chose him. He looked at me, he listened, as if I was the producer of his movies so I became his producer. He’s obviously extremely important for me. He’s the most important director in my career.

Q: Kristen Stewart in one word?

Charles: Exception! She doesn’t do anything like the others. She’s not like the other actors in Hollywood. She’s
not in a traditional agency. She’s not represented like the others. She’s never where she’s expected to be. She can go from a big production to a small indie.

Q: What is your next project together?

Charles: I think there are 3 pieces of secret that are in our pockets. And Olivier will have to reunite them someday.

Q: A reaction to Kristen Stewart words?
(An extract from the Cesar ceremony when Kristen said Charles was one of her fav people.)

Charles: It was really moving obviously, even more because I feel the same for her. It’s really one of the best moments in my professional life.

Anne-Sophie: How did you feel?
Kristen: Oh I was completely shocked to be honest. I was sitting next to Juliette Binoche, she kept saying it was
not possible at all, you’ll never get it, it’s even incredible that you got nominated because you’re an American actress. And I was like, help me, help me, what am I supposed to say? And she was like “Nah! Nah! No way!” But ultimately, it’s like a swimming pool where the Americans are not invited often. The reason why people make movies in France is motivated by different aspects in comparison to the US. There’s not this need to please a huge audience. In the US, I’m a part of the industry of entertainment when here it’s very different. There’s a cinematographic culture, people take risk and are closer to what I like to do. I know I was given an occasion that was unique and without reference. It kind of strucked me out, and I’m very thankful and still surprised.

Anne-Sophie: Let’s watch this again!

THE CESAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AND KRISTEN TRYIND TO HIDE BEHIND OLIVIER
Kristen: Gah! Hey check it out, check it out! Je suis très heureuse d’être ici!
Anne-Sophie : Yeah ! Yeah ! You got it! It means that you can attend another ceremony. If you’re nominated again, will you attend?

Kristen: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I’m ready! Of course, of course! Mais oui! Mais oui!

Pierre: I’ve always been impressed, like all the French people, by the precision of the vocabulary you use in
English. And I read that when you were young, your parents who went to college, in order to be interesting, you had to use the right words. Is it the secret of
your way to express very precisely?

Kristen: I don’t know if I would say precisely. But it’s true that I express myself in a very singular way. I try to
be precise. My parents, not because they went to college, but they encouraged me with school, and I can be thankful for allowing me free form because I don’t always finish my sentences, my words shock between them, but I always end up by saying what I wanted to say in a more precise way than if it was just a sentence.

Anne-Sophie: Did you know French cinema before working with Olivier Assayas?

Kristen: I just knew all of his movies. I’m a big fan of Olivier Assayas.

THEN THEY SHOW AN OLD INTERVIEW OF OLIVIER

Anne-Sophie (to Olivier): Do you remember the first film starring Kristen Stewart you saw?

Olivier: When I saw Into the wild, I thought that there was someone who was unexpected in the American cinema.

Olivier: When I saw Into the wild, I thought that there was someone who was unexpected in the American cinema.

Olivier: This one and many more.

Anne-Sophie: What words?

Olivier: What impresses me with Kristen is her freedom above all. Freedom is the word I’d choose. And also her strength. She manages to be completely independent and to have a kind of affirmation of what she does and how she plays. She has a way to give truth to everything.

Anne-Sophie: And when one wants Kristen Stewart, how does it work? How do we reach her?
Anne-Sophie: Oh it’s very simple actually. There’s no need to complicate things!

Anne-Elisabeth: Do you have another project together?

Olivier: Several…
Anne-Elisabeth: Several? Really?
Anne-Sophie (to Kristen): Did you know it?
Kristen: Yes!
Anne-Elisabeth: So you already said yes without knowing?
Kristen: Oui.
Anne-Sophie: You have an impressive career, you’re only 26 and 45 roles, and you are the muse of a huge French fashion house (in France, it’s not legal to name a label on a TV show or a radio show because
it’s considered as publicity and it’s considered as disloyal in regard of the other labels of the same market outside of regular ads). Do you like this role too?

Kristen: Yeah! One of my favorite things, as an actress, is to be surrounded by people who do different things
but who inspire me. I know nothing about clothes. I wear Jeans and t-shirts in my everyday life. But to watch people who love what they do so much and to be a part of it, to amplify it, it really makes me happy. And the Chanel people are really family oriented and they are compulsive artists. They really love what they do. They’re obsessed with what they do. Many people in this industry are superficial and bad people. But these people serve an incredible art and I want to be close to that.

Anne-Elisabeth: Let’s imagine… This show will be broadcasted after the American presidential elections. Let’s
imagine: Hillary Clinton is elected, how do you react?

Kristen: Oh I’ll stay in the country. I’d be relieved to be able to stay.

Anne-Elisabeth: If it’s Trump, you’ll leave?!...
Kristen: Or I’ll have to become fully French if Trump won.
Anne-Elisabeth: Well if it’s Trump, you’ll become French and you’ll be welcome.
Kristen: Please, please, will you have me? That would be great. Thank God!
Anne-Sophie: Be careful, because we’ll have elections too. Pierre, you’re a big fan of movies but you’re a big fan of music too. So when you hear the soundtrack of Personal Shopper, how do you react?

Pierre: Like in every movie directed by Olivier Assayas, it’s delicate. Your musical choices are always totally
cinematographic. And it includes the ring tone of Kristen’s phone, which is amazing, when Gary calls you, it’s
immediately beautiful. And then there’s this song, which is absolutely sublime, from the Swedish singer, by Ana Von Hoswolff, a song that we hear in the trailer, which concludes the movie in a very beautiful way, I wanted to mention it. Because when you’ll go watch the movie, you’ll want to go buy the song, you have to buy it…

Olivier: It’s in her last album, which is amazing.

Anne-Sophie: And you like it too Kristen?
Kristen: This song is so, so painful at the end. My character is not very expressive, she’s not generous with her
emotions. She’s not emotional. She’s not affective. But by the end, there’s something that goes higher and higher, and I love that it’s a feminine voice. I don’t know, I feel like it’s her, it’s the character. She’s great.

Anne-Sophie: Thank you both for being here tonight. The film will be out next week, Dec 14th. It got many great reviews in many festivasl, without forgetting Cannes.

Kristen: Did we forget to tell he won the best director prize?! We may say it again.
Anne-Sophie: Thank you again. See you after the break.
The End.
Thanks to Candy for the translation, her first language is French and not English.