After screening her short film Come Swim at Cannes and Sundance, Kristen Stewart has revealed to IndieWire that she now plans to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir The Chronology of Water.
“Lidia Yuknavitch is from Portland,” said Stewart. “I love her novels but her memoires, it’s deeply personal to her. “he’s in my blood and I knew that before I met her. As soon as I met her it was like we started this race without any sense of competition. I’m making the movie this summer but other than that, my only goal is just to finish the screenplay and hire a really spectacular actor: I’m going to write the best fucking female role. I’m going to write a role that I want so badly but that I’m not going to play.”
The Amazon description for The Chronology of Water reads:
This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman’s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.
Stewart’s latest film Lizzie premiered at Sundance in January, while her other upcoming acting projects include JT Leroy, Underwater and the Jean Seberg biopic/political thriller Against All Enemies.
