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NICHOLAS HOULT TALK ABOUT KRISTEN IN A NEW INTERVIEW

He's already shot Equals, a thriller set in a world where emotions have been eradicated, which also stars Twilight's Kristen Stewart.

There was speculation that they might be more than just co-stars when the pair were spotted looking close and laughing together at the Venice Film Festival.

"I must've said something funny," Hoult offers, grinning. He describes the shoot as "phenomenal".

"Kristen and Drake [Doremus, the director] are two of my favourite people I've worked with, really inspiring to be around and I'm proud of the film."

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NICHOLAS HOULT FALA SOBRE KRISTEN EM NOVA ENTREVISTA

Ele filmou Equals, um thriller que se passa em um mundo onde as emoções foram erradicadas, que também tem a estrela de Crepúsculo, Kristen Stewart.

Houve uma especulação de que eles poderiam ser mais do que co-stars quando os dois foram vistos parecendo próximos e rindo juntos no Venice Film Festival.

“Eu devo ter dito algo engraçado,” Hoult esclarece, rindo. Ele descreve as filmagens como “fenomenais”.

“Kristen e Drake [Doremus, o diretor] são duas das minhas pessoas favoritas que já trabalhei, realmente inspirador de estar ao redor dele e estou orgulhoso do filme.”

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Novos Portraits de Kristen no Venice Film Festival

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Kristen's and Drake Doremus Interview with BuzzFeed News

Equals, the sci-fi romance starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart that recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, reportedly sparked a major bidding war among possible distributors — and it’s easy to understand why. The film’s logline seems tailor-made for the next YA blockbuster: In the future, an apocalyptic catastrophe has forced humanity to genetically engineer emotion out of every living person. The result has eradicated all war and famine, but it also has eliminated love. Then, an epidemic of “switched-on syndrome” — in which afflicted humans suddenly begin to feel again, and risk being disappeared as a threat to social order — plunges Silas (Hoult) into a dangerous and existential dilemma when he realizes he is falling in love with his co-worker Nia (Stewart). Things become even more precarious when Silas discovers that Nia has been hiding her SOS status for more than a year, and she actually loves him back.

Unlike The Hunger Games and Divergent, however, Equals is less interested in the machinations of its plot than it is in the beating hearts of its characters. That is largely thanks to director Drake Doremus, best known for his indie romantic dramas Like Crazy and Breathe In. In an interview with BuzzFeed News at TIFF, Doremus and Stewart discussed the relative importance of privacy, how much we mask our own emotions in real life, and how the film’s unusual rehearsal process helped connect the actors not just to their characters’ emotional lives, but to their own as well.

Drake, your film presents a world that is kind of a peaceful utopia that is also a dystopia — which is a popular topic lately!

Drake Doremus: I think it is a great thing. I think a lot of what the society of this collective does is actually really positive and really good. It's really zen-like and harmonious and beautiful and calming and wonderful. But also, by virtue of fixing a lot of things, you kind of do some harm as well. So the grayness is interesting to me. You remove emotion so people aren't killing each other and there's no religion and there's no politics, it's like, well, that's great, but at the same time, if you do all that, you might remove some of the most intrinsic things that are really important and that we value as human beings.

What brought you to this project?

DD: Well, I kind of had the idea of simply just a world in which love doesn't exist: Does love find a way, and does the human heart end up transcending that? I brought that kernel to [screenwriter] Nathan [Parker], who's super talented. I'm a big fan of Moon, and other things he's done. So I was like, So, I want to try something totally different. I want to stretch and do something outside of my comfort zone.

[Kristen Stewart enters]

DD: Are you coming into this?

KS: Oh yeah.

DD: Fuck yes! That's awesome. Well, now this is going to get elevated. Now everything I said is going to have meaning.

Kristen, what drew you to the project?

KS: Well, generally speaking, I absolutely loved Like Crazy. You could feel how absolutely true it was. That's what you always strive for while making films. So I definitely wanted to work with him. And the very, very touched-on subject of awakening and falling in love for the first time and getting to know yourself as a human being that exists just as an animalistic entity that doesn't deny itself? I'm so about that. And so I knew that me, Nick [Hoult], Drake, we're all in this perfect position to sort of meditate on and — just like literally, um, vomit out all of these things that we'd all been through in a way that was simple, and in a way that we could reflect on and was just awesome. Like, I basically just wanted to follow him and Nick around while getting to know myself. It was just the most honest and self-aware acknowledgment of being alive that I had seen in a really long time.

DD: Now that was poetic! OK, now I'm done.

There are a lot of times in our lives where we have to subsume emotion or hide what we're actually feeling — for both of you, how do you confront that?

KS: People love to make this topical, and they involve drugs and social media and all of that. But there are a million ways in which we like to deny our true selves. So, like, you know, I don't think that we've gotten more progressive emotionally. I still think we view true feeling and true expression of that as a weakness, so it was nice to just unabashedly face that. I thought that was beautiful, and obviously as a woman, I'm like, you know, our strength is to harness and utilize that rather than subdue it and be leaders that seem stoic and unaffected.

So, I think, to take the quintessential embodiment of a woman and the quintessential embodiment of a man and show that they're much more similar than we might, like, stereotypically think of them, that we all are actually quite similar, is beautiful. There's a fluidity to what's happening in our generation in terms of love and equality, and I don't just mean the gay stuff, but that definitely is involved. It's really inspiring to see the balance of what a man and a woman can do for each other, and how strong they can be together. And how different we are, but that when it comes to it, we're quite the same.

Drake, how do you look at this?

DD: I don't know how to add on to that? How do I add on to that? Um, yeah, I think equality is a really interesting current topic, and I think the film very much so harkens back to in the ’50s and that sort of structure of like, Well, it's appropriate to feel this and be this way. I think it's a very current movie in many ways. This movie could take place in the past, or the present, or the future, and it would be the same movie. It's about human beings that cannot get rid of how they feel about each other. And that's so simple.

KS: Sometimes it's all you want to do. It's just too much, and you go, Oh, can I get rid of it? It's like, No, then you would cease to exist, so you have to face it.

DD: And that's the question that we're asking is: Why are we, and what are we doing here? What is the point of our lives? What makes our lives worth living? It's really simple. I think the film answers that in a very simple and hopefully poetic way.

KS: And somebody who's been hurt or made completely cynical will probably look at this the same way they look at a couple holding hands on the street after six months out of a breakup. You know, “Call me in a year and tell me how you feel! And fuck you!”

It sounds like, as you were making it, you were exploring these issues among yourselves so you could make it work in the film?

DD: Yeah. What was awesome about Nick and Kristen jumping in was that they understood what we were going to do, and they gave themselves wholeheartedly to it. It was about being vulnerable and honest. You see a lot of sci-fi movies about people playing characters, and it's about the world. This is just about the human heart and about reality and about us as human beings. We made something really personal and really honest to us, to our experience and our lives. I think the film really represents that.

So was that what your rehearsal process was like? Sitting together and sharing personal experiences?

KS: 100%. That's all we did. Yeah, me and Nick sat across from each other and said, “Hello Silas,” “Hello Nia,” for an hour. And then for the next hour, we were completely honest, and we could speak as long as it was completely true, and then for the next hour we could speak, as long as it was completely honest — which could be more telling than anything. When you approach honesty. If you approach dishonesty, it might say even more about you.

DD: We did the dishonesty stuff, too. We did them both. It was all about what is real and what is not. We're trying to explore the human heart and experience of falling in love and then maintaining that. It's really a metaphor for remembering what you saw in somebody in the beginning, and trying to understand why you're in that [relationship] in the first place. You grow and change and the relationship moves on. But why are you in that and remembering that?

Kristen, one of the things you've experienced from the outside looking in is that a lot of people want to know who the real you is. How do you figure out a way to maintain honesty while also maintaining privacy?

KS: I think it's totally dependent on context. If somebody's being honest with me, and there's an honest, genuine question asked, I do not ever shy away from it. I am drawn to it. All I want to do as an actor is reveal myself, rather than construct something that I can take credit for as somebody who tells stories. I'm not telling stories. I'm drawn to stories that I have inside me. Even if they're deeply buried, there's probably a reason why I'm attracted to things. So the process of making the movie is answering those questions.

So usually, when people find me to be, you know, maybe too preoccupied with my privacy? I'm not at all. In fact, I just have a pretty good gauge of when somebody's asking an honest question, or an honest question without intention. So honesty with just ugly motives, I'm totally opposed to that. But right now, I feel like that was honest question, I feel like I'm answering honestly.

But yeah, I don't have any ability to fake something that I don't know. So this role was an opportunity to really get to know myself in a way that you wouldn't [normally] take the time to sit and reflect and acknowledge, because it's scary and it's painful. I had fears at first, sure, but my whole goal, and the reason you choose to work with certain people is because you feel less of that fear. And that fear can motivate you, but actually it doesn't inhibit you, it opens you. So I want to keep my private life private, I suppose, but only in terms of selling it. I'm not private. I just really want to be true to myself. I have this aversion to faux journalism. It's some bullshit. Like people are like, Oh, I want to ask you a really dishonest question, and then judge you for being a liar. It's like, Well, yeah. You asked me a dishonest question, therefore I'm going to avoid you. And it's not me being guarded. It's actually me wanting truth, rather than feeding into bullshit.

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Entrevista de Kristen e Drake Doremus ao BuzzFeed News

Equals, o romance de ficção científica estrelando Nicholas Hoult e Kristen Stewart, que recentemente foi exibido no Toronto International Film Festival, supostamente começou uma guerra de lances entre os distribuidores – e o motivo é facilmente entendido. A história do filme parece feita para o próximo blockbuster young adult: No futuro, uma catástrofe apocalíptica força a humanidade a geneticamente tirar a emoção de cada pessoa. O resultado eliminou toda a guerra e fome, mas também eliminou o amor. Então, uma epidemia de “Switched-On Syndrome” – em que os seres humanos que sofrem começam a sentir novamente e são arriscados a desaparecer como uma ameaça para a ordem social – lança Silas (Hoult) em um dilema existencial perigoso quando ele percebe que está se apaixonando por sua colega de trabalho Nia (Stewart). As coisas ficam ainda mais precárias quando Silas descobre que Nia tem escondido seu status com SOS por mais de um ano, e que na verdade, ela também o ama.

Ao contrário de Jogos Vorazes e Divergente, no entanto, Equals está menos interessado na maquinação do seu enredo do que nos corações de seus personagens. Isso é em grande parte graças ao diretor Drake Doremus, mais conhecido por seus dramas indies como Like Crazy e Breathe In. Em uma entrevista com o BuzzFeed News no TIFF, Doremus e Stewart discutiram a importância relativa da privacidade, o quanto nós escondemos nossas emoções na vida real, e como os ensaios fora do normal ajudaram a conectar os atores não apenas a seus personagens, mas também em si mesmos.

Drake, seu filme representa um mundo que é meio uma utopia pacífica e também uma distopia – o que é um tópico popular ultimamente!

Drake Doremus: Eu acho que é uma coisa ótima. Acho que muito do que essa sociedade de The Collective faz é na verdade realmente positivo e bom. É pacífico, harmonioso, bonito, calmo e maravilhoso. Mas também, na virtude de consertar muitas coisas, você também prejudica. Então a parte cinza é interessante para mim. Você remove emoções para que as pessoas não se matem, e não há religião ou política. É tipo, bom, isso é ótimo, mas ao mesmo tempo, se você fizer tudo isso, você pode remover algumas das coisas mais intrínsecas que são realmente importantes e que valorizamos como seres humanos.

O que te levou a esse projeto?

DD: Bom, eu meio que tinha a ideia de simplesmente um mundo onde o amor não existisse. O amor acha um jeito, e o coração humano acaba transcendendo isso? Eu levei esse grão ao roteirista Nathan Parker, que é super talentoso. Eu sou um grande fã de Moon e de outras coisas que ele fez. Então fiquei tipo, “Então, eu quero tentar algo totalmente diferente. Eu quero me alongar e fazer algo fora da minha zona de conforto.”

[Kristen Stewart entra.]

DD: Você está vindo para a entrevista?

KS: Oh sim.

DD: Sim! Isso é incrível. Bom, agora isso vai ficar em um nível elevado. Agora tudo o que eu disse vai fazer sentido.

Kristen, o que te levou para o projeto?

KS: Bom, falando de modo geral, eu absolutamente amei Like Crazy. Você podia sentir o quão verdadeiro era. Isso é o que você sempre luta quando está fazendo filmes. Então eu definitivamente queria trabalhar com. E o assunto muito tocante sobre o despertar, se apaixonar pela primeira vez e se conhecer como o ser humano que existe apenas como uma identidade animalesca que não nega a si mesmo? Eu sou muito sobre isso. E então eu soube que eu, Nick [Hoult], Drake, nós estamos nessa posição perfeita de meditar sobre isso e – apenas literalmente, um, vomitar todas essas coisas que nós todos passamos de um jeito simples, e de um jeito que nós poderíamos refletir e foi incrível. Tipo, eu basicamente apenas queria seguir ele e Nick em tudo enquanto me conhecia. Foi o conhecimento mais honesto e próprio de estar viva que eu já vi em muito tempo.

DD: Isso foi poético! Ok, agora estou acabado.

Há muitos momentos em nossa vida onde nós temos que engolir nossas emoções ou esconder o que nós estamos realmente sentindo – para os dois, como vocês confrontam isso?

KS: As pessoas amam fazer isso tópico, e eles envolvem drogas e mídia social e tudo isso. Mas, há milhões de jeitos em que nós gostamos de negar quem realmente somos. Então, tipo, você sabe, eu não acho que nós nos tornamos mais progressivos emocionalmente. Eu ainda acho que nós vemos o sentimento verdadeiro ou a expressão verdadeira disso como fraqueza, então foi legal apenas enfrentar isso descaradamente. Eu achei que foi bonito, e obviamente como uma mulher, estou tipo, você sabe, nossa força é aproveitar e utilizar isso ao invés de dominar e sermos líderes que parecem insensíveis e não afetadas.

Então, eu acho, tomar a forma de realização por excelência de uma mulher e a personificação por excelência de um homem e mostrar que eles são muito mais semelhantes do que nós podemos, tipo, pensar neles de um jeito generalizado, que nós somos na verdade muito parecidos, é bonito. Há uma fluidez ao que está acontecendo em nossa geração em termos de amor e igualdade, e eu não falo só do material gay, mas isso está definitivamente envolvido. É realmente inspirador ver o balanceamento do que o que o homem e a mulher podem fazer um pelo outro, e o quão forte eles podem ser juntos. E como somos diferentes, mas nesse ponto, nós somos praticamente o mesmo.

Drake, como você vê isso?

DD: Eu não sei como adicionar a isso? Como eu adiciono a isso? Um, sim, eu acho que a igualdade é realmente um tópico interessante atualmente, e eu acho que o filme escuta muito os anos 50 e aquele tipo de estrutura de tipo, “Bom, é apropriado me sentir desse jeito e ser desse jeito.” Eu acho que é um filme atual de muitos jeitos. Esse filme poderia se passar no passado, ou no presente, ou no futuro, e seria o mesmo filme. É sobre seres humanos que não podem se livrar do que eles sentem um pelo outro. E isso é muito simples.

KS: As vezes, é tudo o que você quer fazer. É apenas muita coisa e você fica, “Oh, posso me livrar disso?” É tipo, “Não, você teria que parar de viver, então você tem que enfrentar isso.”

DD: E essa é a pergunta que estamos fazendo. Por que e o que estamos fazendo aqui? Qual o motivo das nossas vidas? O que faz a nossa vida ser digna de viver? É realmente simples. Eu acho que o filme responde isso de um jeito muito simples e poético.

KS: E alguém que foi machucado ou feito completamente de cínico provavelmente irá olhar para isso do mesmo jeito que eles olham para um casal de mãos dadas na rua após seis meses de um término de namoro. Você sabe, “Me ligue em um ano e me diga o que sente! E vai se foder!”

Parece que, quando vocês estavam fazendo o filme, vocês estavam explorando esses problemas em si mesmos para poder fazer funcionar?

DD: Sim. O que foi incrível sobre Nick e Kristen pulando nisso foi que eles entenderam o que iam fazer, e se entregaram de coração para isso. Era sobre ser vulnerável e verdadeiro. Você vê muitos filmes de ficção científica sobre pessoas interpretando personagens, e é sobre o mundo. Esse é somente sobre o coração humano, realidade e sobre nós como seres humanos. Nós fizemos algo realmente pessoal e verdadeiro para nós, para nossa experiência e nossas vidas. Eu acho que o filme realmente representa isso.

Então o processo de ensaio foi assim? Sentar juntos e compartilhar experiências pessoais?

KS: 100%. Isso é tudo o que fizemos. Sim, eu e Nick sentamos de frente um para o outro e dizemos, “Olá, Silas” e “Olá, Nia” por uma hora. E então, pela próxima hora, nós fomos completamente honestos e nós podíamos falar desde que fosse completamente verdade. E pela próxima hora, nós podíamos falar desde que fosse algo completamente honesto – o que pode ser mais revelador do que qualquer coisa quando você aborda a honestidade. Se você aborda a mentira, isso pode dizer ainda mais sobre você.

DD: Nós fizemos a coisa da mentira, também. Fizemos os dois. Foi tudo sobre o que é real e o que não é. Nós estamos tentando explorar o coração humano e a experiência de se apaixonar e então manter isso. É realmente uma metáfora para lembrar o que você viu em alguém no começo e tentar entender o motivo pelo qual você está nesse relacionamento em primeiro lugar. Você cresce e muda e o relacionamento segue em frente. Mas por que você está nisso e lembrando disso?

Kristen, uma das coisas que você tem experiência olhando pelo lado de fora é que muitas pessoas querem saber que você realmente é. Como você calcula um jeito de manter a honestidade enquanto também mantém a privacidade?

KS: Eu acho que depende totalmente do contexto. Se alguém está sendo honesto comigo, e há uma pergunta honesta de verdade sendo feita, eu não fujo dela. Eu me atraio por ela. Tudo o que eu quero fazer como atriz é me revelar, ao invés de construir algo que eu possa tomar crédito como uma pessoa que conta histórias. Eu não estou contando histórias. Eu sou atraída por histórias que eu tenho dentro de mim. Mesmo que elas estejam enterradas bem fundo, há provavelmente uma razão pela qual eu sou atraída pelas coisas. Então, o processo de fazer o filme está respondendo essas perguntas.

Então, frequentemente, quando as pessoas acham que eu sou, você sabe, talvez muito preocupada com a minha privacidade? Eu não sou. Na verdade, eu tenho um indicador muito bom para quando alguém está me fazendo uma pergunta honesta, ou uma pergunta honesta sem intenção. Honestidade com motivos feios, eu sou totalmente contra. Mas agora, eu sinto que essa foi uma pergunta honesta, sinto que estou respondendo honestamente.

Mas sim, eu não tenho a habilidade de fingir algo que eu não sei. Então esse papel foi uma oportunidade para me conhecer de um jeito que você normalmente não tomaria o tempo de sentar, refletir e reconhecer porque é assustador e é doloroso. Eu tinha medos no começo, claro, mas meu objetivo total, e a razão pela qual você escolhe trabalhar com certas pessoas é porque você sente menos medo. E esse medo pode te motivar, mas na verdade não te inibe, te abre. Então eu quero manter minha vida pessoal privada, eu suponho, mas só em termos de vender ela. Eu não sou privada. Eu somente quero ser verdadeira comigo mesma. Eu tenho aversão a esse jornalismo falso. É alguma esteira. As pessoas ficam, “Oh, eu quero te fazer uma pergunta desonesta, e então te julgar por ser uma mentirosa.” É tipo “Bom, sim. Você me fez uma pergunta desonesta, logo eu vou te ignorar.” E não é sobre ser cuidadosa. Eu quero a verdade, ao invés de alimentar a mentira.

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Novo Portrait de Kristen, Drake e Nicholas no TIFF

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Drake Doremus talk about Kristen

When it comes to Kristen, there’s a certain level of baggage when you cast her in a movie, based on how some people perceive her in the media. I think critically, people are coming around, though.

I’m so impressed by her choices of work in the last year and a half and so proud of her. She’s doing Woody’s movie right now and she’s so smart.

She’s always doing different projects and films, and you can tell she does them because she cares about them.

There’s a reason why Ang Lee and Woody Allen want to work with her and why she charms them. What’s great about Kristen to me is she’s a perfect mix of valuable to the business people but also the perfect collaborator to work with. Oftentimes you get someone who is great financially, but they’re a pain in the ass, or they’re amazing, but you can’t use them. There are very few, select people in their twenties who are both, and she’s number one in my book. There’s nobody better or more relevant.

When she gets older, going into her thirties, having gone under the hood and looked at the machinery and seen all the different gears and aspects to her dimension as an artist, I’m just really impressed. There wasn’t anywhere she wouldn’t go. She constantly wanted to be pushed. It was always honest. No boundaries. No barriers. I’m really impressed by her performance in the movie. I’m super proud of her, I think she’s fantastic.

It’s funny that she and Nick are both former child actors. They’ve both made such interesting choices lately.

I met Nick a while ago, generally. We had some mutual friends and I was always a fan of his. He’s an even more incredible human being than an actor, because he’s so talented. I had always wanted to work with him, and two years later I was coming up with the idea and I thought, "Nick Hoult is this guy! He’s the guy!" From the beginning he was the only one I had in mind. I met a few different actresses to see who I could pair with Nick and, as soon as I met Kristen, it was a no-brainer. We got together and had dinner and drinks and hung out for three hours and talked about life and love and relationships and became fast friends and collaborators. It just felt right.

Their chemistry really grounds the film. Their first love scene takes place in a bathroom stall at work, which sounds horribly unsexy, but it really pops, especially with the way it was edited and with the soundtrack. What was shooting that scene like?

Well, we were playing that music on set, which was a key component. I’m doing 30 minute takes, there’s no one in there except for John [Guleserian, cinematographer] and me. It’s super intimate. That moment was a two-hour exploration and we documented it, we captured and explored it and let it live. I purposefully tried to keep them away from each other, physically, up until that scene when I tried to structure the shoot, so that was the first time we had done it. We done all these building, subtextual scenes where the tension was there and rising, and then the floodgates opened.

What was going on in the movie was what was going on in the process of our filming. They mirrored each other and it feels that way, it feels like the first time and feels utterly real. For the most part, I would just jump in and whisper things, but it was about Nick letting go and exploring and Kristen holding on as tight as she can until she can’t anymore and lets go. It was about trying to calibrate that and, in the editing room, we probably cut that scene more than anything. We cut that scene more significantly than any other scene in the movie. We just kept working and working till it felt right, but we had so much material in there and it was an amazing two-and-a-half hours in the bathroom.

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Drake Doremus fala sobre Kristen em nova entrevista

Quando falamos sobre Kristen, há um certo nível de bagagem quando você a escala em um filme, baseado sobre como as pessoas a veem na mídia. Eu acho que, criticamente, as pessoas estão reconsiderando as opiniões sobre ela.

Eu estou bastante impressionado com suas escolhas de trabalho no último ano e meio e estou muito orgulhoso dela. Ela está fazendo o filme de Woody agora e ela é muito inteligente.

Ela está sempre fazendo filmes e projetos diferentes, e você pode dizer que elas os faz porque se importa com eles.

Há uma razão pela qual Ang Lee e Woody Allen querem trabalhar com ela e por que ela fascina eles. O que é ótimo sobre Kristen para mim é que ela é a mistura perfeita de pessoas valiosas no negócio mas também a colaboradora perfeita para trabalhar. Algumas vezes você consegue alguém que é ótimo financeiramente, mas eles são um saco, ou são maravilhosos, mas você não pode usá-los. Poucas pessoas na faixa dos 20 anos são os dois, e ela é a número 1 no meu livro. Não há ninguém melhor ou mais relevante.

Quando ela ficar mais velha, indo para seus trinta anos, ela irá ver toda a maquinaria e ver todas as engrenagens diferentes e os aspectos de sua dimensão como uma artista, eu estou realmente impressionado. Não há lugar nenhum que ela não iria. Ela queria ser constantemente empurrada. Sempre foi honesta. Sem limites. Sem barreiras. Estou realmente impressionado com sua performance no filme. Estou super orgulhoso dela, eu acho que ela é fantástica.

É engraçado que ela e Nick são atores mirins. Os dois fizeram escolhas interessantes ultimamente.

Eu conheci Nick um tempo atrás. Nós tínhamos amigos em comum e eu sempre fui fã dele. Ele é um ser humano mais incrível do que é ator, porque ele é muito talentoso. Eu sempre quis trabalhar com ele, e dois anos depois eu apareci com a ideia e pensei “Nick Hoult é o cara! Ele é o cara!” Desde o começo ele era o único que eu tinha em mente. Eu conheci algumas atrizes diferentes para ver quem poderia fazer com Nick e, assim que conheci Kristen, foi sem pensar. Nós nos encontramos e jantamos e bebemos juntos, passamos três horas juntos e falamos sobre a vida, amor e relacionamentos e nos tornamos amigos e colaboradores rapidamente. Apenas pareceu certo.

A química deles realmente é a base do filme. A primeira cena de amor acontece no banheiro do trabalho, o que soa incrivelmente nada sexy, mas realmente se destaque, especialmente com o jeito que foi editado e com a trilha sonora. Como foi filmar aquela cena?

Bom, nós estávamos tocando música no set, o que foi um componente chave. Eu estou fazendo takes de 30 minutos, não há ninguém lá além de John [Guleserian, cinegrafista] e eu. É super íntimo. Aquele momento foi uma exploração de duas horas e nós documentamos isso, nós capturamos e exploramos e deixamos viver. Eu tentei manter os dois longe um do outro, fisicamente, até aquela cena quando eu tentei estruturar a filmagem, então aquela foi a primeira vez que fizemos. Nós fizemos todas essas cenas sub textuais e construídas onde a tensão está lá e está crescendo, e então as comportas se abrem.

O que estava acontecendo no filme era o que estava acontecendo no processo das filmagens. Eles espelharam um ao outro e parece desse jeito, parece que foi a primeira vez e que foi totalmente real. Na maior parte, eu apenas entrava e sussurrava coisas, mas foi sobre Nick deixando ir e explorando e Kristen segurando o tanto que pode, até que ela não consegue mais e deixa ir. Foi sobre tentar calibrar isso e, na sala de edição, nós provavelmente cortamos essa cena mais do que tudo. Nós cortamos mais essa cena do que qualquer outra no filme. Continuamos trabalhando e trabalhando até que pareceu certo, mas tínhamos tanto material ali e foram maravilhosas duas horas e meia no banheiro.

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Novo Portrait de Kristen, Nicholas e Drake para a People

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"EQUALS" NA PREMIERE NO TIFF 'TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015' (13/09)

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Kristen Stewart chegando na estréia "Equals" durante o Festival de Cinema Toronto International 2015 no Princess of Wales Theatre em 13 de setembro, 2015, em Toronto, Canadá.

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Novo Portrait de Kristen e Drake para o The Hollywood Reporter

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Novas fotos de Kristen e Nicholas hoje nos estúdios da Variety no TIFF

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Kristen's Interview with The Hollywood Reporter

The star of the edgy new sci fi title 'Equals' discusses the challenges of fame, life after Bella and why she will unfriend you.

In Drake Doremus’ future set love story Equals, all emotions have been suppressed, replaced by an intellectual curiosity that make for one very efficient workforce. Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult play two people inflicted with SOS, Switched On Syndrome, that allows them to slowly begin to feel their feelings.
 
Surrounded by a population of subordinates, the two fall in love an intensity that makes it feel like they are the last two people on earth. Stewart, who has managed to hide her “sickness” publicly, tries to suppress her feelings, knowing that if found out, the two will be sent to a rehabilitation center that ends in suicide or death. The film takes a Shakespearean twist that makes us think that the future might not be so bleak after all.
 
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Stewart to discuss the real-life training she had for turning off her emotions and how her first love was all too close to the role. Equals premieres in Toronto Sept. 13, with worldwide sales handled by Mister Smith Entertainment.

You constantly shift in the movie between being “on” and “off.” Was it difficult to switch back and forth between those two feelings?

It just became the most bleak, awful…It's so sad. I'm the only person in the movie who's switched on the whole time so even though in the beginning, we're seemingly off, the overtly emotional displays and the more raw scenes felt amazing to do and more natural and more familiar. What was really painful was not feeling. What was truly really exhausting was to just be dead.
 
How did you manage to suppress your emotionless for this role?

I'm playing somebody who is constantly stifling this thing and I can completely relate to that. Anybody who's had a bad day or maybe like is just PMS-ing or just feeling too much on a certain day where you have to go and show face, I've had to do that a lot, an exceptional amount. I know that feeling and that is so familiar to me to feel something so hard and have to go into work and say ‘Good Morning,’ and not show emotions.
 
Is there anything appealing in this world? We have pills to turn off negative emotions like depression or anxiety.

I was going to say, that's what people try to do all the time. I think that’s why Drake conceived of this in this way. I barely even take Advil when I have a headache. I really like to feel. You need that balance.
 
The reason, it sounds really obvious, the only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful. Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, ‘Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair.’ But I would be so not interested in that.
 
There seemed to be a parallel in the film with the celebrity world, being told what to do, eat, wear all the time. Is it difficult for you sometimes to do your own thing?

It's never difficult for me to do it but it has been difficult sometimes to hear people's response to it, to things that I just think are so insignificant, as insignificant as not wanting to wear heels for five hours or more significantly the way people choose to live their lives. Why do people care? Why do you care? I'm sorry, have I let you down or something? You don't even know me.
 
I think the only hard part of that for me is that I really love what I do and I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore. The idea that I don't care or if people are like ‘She just has doesn't give a f—, attitude,’ it truly is the opposite of that so I definitely care that people think that. But I care more about staying true to myself.
 
As an actor, how do you deal with the industry of celebrity?

It's weird. It's bizarre. It's like this whole other form of entertainment, which I get. I just wish that people saw through it a little bit more. It doesn't need to go away. It's just so ridiculously grey. I think I  can find a little bit of comfort in that and know that people know that. I think people understand that. It's like something bad happens to you. You do an interview that you mess up, say something stupid, say something you don't mean and you just think it's end-all because it has emotionally affected you.
 
In a week, people will move on to the next thing because it's business and it's fuelled by money, therefore you can't take it too seriously. You know for a fact that a dozen articles aren't written about some slip up you made because they care. They're written because it's going to make them money and they're going to get a lot of hits on their websites. So you're like, ‘OK, I get it. Go make f—ing money on me.’ It's awesome.
 
In the scene in Equals, where your characters first touch, the audience let out a collective gasp. Did you draw from your first love for this role?

Totally. One of the reasons I was so intimidated by this movie is because I was like, ‘This is gonna hurt. I don't want to think about all that.’ It's good, it's cathartic, it's worth it. I feel good now on the other side of it. But at first I was like ‘Oh God.’ If we do this right it's so basic, it's so fundamental, it's so young. Obviously Nick and I are 25. We made the movie nearly a year ago. We're still very close to our first loves. It's definitely something that we both know so well. It was a painful movie to make in every way. It was exuberant, cathartic and at the same time almost too self-reflective. We would go home and be like, ‘We seriously need a drink. Let's just stop thinking about everything. Let's not talk. Let's just take a walk.’
 
The movie is also a metaphor for long-term relationships. What do you think is the secret to a successful relationship?

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, ‘What is this?’ I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person’s life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.
 
The thing about the end of the movie as well is it is a metaphor for ebb and flow. There are times where you're with someone for five years and on year three you're like "ehhhh." Then something can happen. Maybe you take a little space or something. All of a sudden it just floods back. To just walk away can be a scary thing. The film is open ended but with hope. If you want to keep trying, it's worth it.

Did you see a lot of similarities between Bella in Twilight and this role?

There's an obvious similarity there, but it's a little bit different because in this case I played the pragmatic one. I played the one that thought this isn't right and we shouldn't do this. He's the one who's like no, let’s do this. It was a bit of a role reversal. But I love love stories.
 
Both of them are very simple and I think that's why I really liked them. Both of them, you can criticise each character for being weak because they give it all up for a man. But I think that that is the most f—ing courageous thing you can do. There's nothing weak about being subject to something. In fact, in order to open yourself up and let all of your guards down and just give yourself to something fully, no matter what anyone else thinks, whether they think it's the right thing for you or not, I just love that. I just f—ing love that. That's so feminine. That's what women do. We have a faith in ourselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f—ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.
 
Do you feel typecast when you're given those kinds of roles?

No because I started when I was really young, as a kid and then I still feel like I'm a kid. But more so when I was younger, I was attracted to things that felt immediately close to me. That was what moved me. I know I can do that, that is me. I then feel like even with this new character that I'm playing, I wouldn't want to play her unless I think somewhere in there, she's there. I’m not a character actor at all. If I were to play a murderous villain, I would justify why they murdered people. I would be like, ‘Well you know what? They had a terrible upbringing.’ I would have to understand them. I can never disagree with people that I play, which sometimes could be a problem. It could limit me, but I don't think so. I think it just might make me better at what I choose.

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Kristen na press de "Equals" no estudio do the Wrap

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Kristen chegando a Press Conference de "Equals" em Veneza

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