Kristen Stewart Reveals New Details on Her Directorial Debut: “It Is, at Times, Hard to Watch”

Kristen Stewart's next project will be her feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, and we finally have some details from an interview Stewart did with Net-a-Porter where she spoke about new film Love Lies Bleeding and her career so far.

Stewart's debut will be an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir of the same name, which tackles topics such as gender, violence, sexuality, family, addiction, self-destruction and survival.

Lifelong swimmer turned artist Yuknavitch has written six more books since, including The Small Backs of Children, Verge and Thrust.

The film adaptation of The Chronology of Water will star Imogen Poots, with Stewart and Andy Mingo credited on the screenplay adapted from the memoir.

Prolific director Ridley Scott serves as a producer on the project alongside Mingo and Mike Pruss.

"My movie is about incest and periods and a woman violently repossessing her voice and body, and it is, at times, hard to watch," Stewart told Net-a-Porter. "It's gonna be a f*****g thrill ride. And I think that's commercial, but I don't think that I have any gauge on what that means," she said.

Stewart also told the publication, "It's kind of a self-conscious thing to talk about, because it's hard to get anything made. You know, [a film] that's not regurgitating something that's pretty standardized".

The film will be shot in Latvia because Stewart said, "I needed a sort of radical detachment. I am not a director yet. I need to make a student film. I can't do that [in the US]".

Audiences will be keen to see what Stewart comes up with. The Academy Award-nominated actor has over 60 credits across her two decades in the industry. Her breakout role as Bella Swan in Twilight catapulted her career to new heights, and she has since appeared in multiple independent productions from auteur filmmakers such as Kelly Reichardt, Olivier Assayas and, most recently, Rose Glass.

Further details on The Chronology of Water will probably come as production unfolds.