Adapting a memoir as creatively narrated as Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water isn’t any small feat, however Kristen Stewart proved herself greater than succesful together with her latest directorial debut. The movie model stars English actress Imogen Poots as Lidia, a traumatized younger girl discovering herself via swimming and writing, and he or she is beautiful in it, utilizing Yuknavitch’s actual story to tell a personality that feels all Poots’s personal.
Vogue spoke to Poots about diving deep into Yuknavitch’s physique of labor, bonding with Stewart as a result of they’re “each kind of nerds,” embracing the juxtaposition inherent in her craft, and her fabulously floral plans for the vacation season.
Vogue: How did this mission come to you?
Imogen Poots: Effectively, it got here as a script, after which I made a tape. I met with Kristen after which I learn the e book after we spoke, and I simply completely cherished it. I’m all the time very joyful once I’m studying, and it jogged my memory of a few of my favourite writers; the lyricism of it felt very, very poetic, but additionally actually accessible. Lidia’s not pretentious. She couldn’t be pretentious if she tried. I believe that’s as a result of she is authentically awestruck by the weather of humanity and nature. Her writing jogged my memory of Beatnik writers I’d cherished, after which I learn her different stuff, and the screenplay and that collectively had been such enhances to at least one one other. Kristen was the right particular person to do it, you already know? I imply, it’s humorous, as a result of Kristen really hates getting moist—she’s like a cat. So the thought of her getting to do that movie and kind of sustaining a dry state of being was a problem for her, in all probability.
What was it like working with Kristen on her directorial debut?
It was so thrilling. I used to be essentially the most embarrassing degree of awestruck on the thought of working collectively. I simply adore her as an individual. Now we have an actual, simple, deep and pure friendship at this level, and I really like her a lot. It’s wonderful to do one thing with somebody the place you’re simply each actually trustworthy, and we’re each kind of nerds, and we each care loads, and we goof round loads, and that’s kind of the right particular person to go and make one thing with and do one thing onerous with, as effectively, as a result of the stakes are excessive. It was a really massive expertise for the each of us, and I believe it’s impacted us since, which is cool.
