Kristen Stewart on ‘Happiest Season’ and the ‘Gray Area’ of Only Gay Actors Playing Gay Characters

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In Clea DuVall’s “Happiest Season,” Kristen Stewart plays Abby, an art history Ph.D. student whose girlfriend, Harper (Mackenzie Davis), has invited her home for Christmas. Though she’s at first re…

. “But after meeting with her, I couldn’t imagine making the movie with anybody else.”

We had a meeting early on, and I knew immediately that we were going in this together, and that it was going to be something that reflected both of us. And I’ve always loved her — I was kind of shocked that she’s so good at comedy, at writing something funny. I’ve taken her very seriously my whole life, you know what I mean? The script made me really curious about her. Did you build the character of Abby together? Abby is so completely Clea.

She’s introduced in the beginning of the film as somebody who feels like my encourager. And then suddenly she becomes this person who really lacks that assurance and is really not being honest, and it does not even remotely reflect who Abby thought she was in the beginning. It’s such a jarring reveal.

The moment he looks at me and describes his coming out story and encourages me to see how hard it can be from a different perspective — it feels historical. I’m like, We’re in 2020, and watching him say that in that scene just feels like so different and cool. I feel so lucky to have been around him. In that moment, it’s like a rare opportunity to feel like — shit, we definitely put a little flag in there. a romantic comedy and a holiday comedy.

 

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So happy that Dan is being recognized for his talent , and as a very kind man

Re: Dan; its the Canadian way, eh

Funny film. Really enjoyed it. A very deep and talented cast.

danjlevy belongs in all of the movies. All of them!

Apologize to miley for the bs

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WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

. WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

. WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

. WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

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. WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

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FUCK VARIETY. MILEY'S A QUEEN OPRAH

who the hell wrote the article about Miley Cyrus' Plastic Hearts? I wanted to read something related to the music, and they wrote about her personal life and nothing about the the album. The misogyny... I'm never reading Variety again.

Good movie

. WE DEMAND A public APOLOGY to Miley, for years, Miley has shared all her projects with you, even you praised her for all her work in Happy Hippie. But your review of her new album PLASTICHEARTS is more than a review is an insult to her work.

Quite honestly I am getting real tired of the only straight actor cant play gay characters, no non disabled actors should not play disabled characters. Its called ACTING.

I’d love to read an article that didn’t look like this

And if you are playing a murderer you have to actually have killed somebody. It’s called acting people. The sooner we all ignore the minority that scream about everything the sooner we can move on to important things

What a brilliant interview

So doss she also think that only vampires should play vampire characters? Cause that’s how she has a career at all...

At least they won't have to ask, 'What's my motivation?'

The word 'actor' means someone portraying something they're not. If the actor actually has a personal connection to the character...fine. But if they have the skill, they can portray anyone.

I think potty mouths on women are so unattractive and she has one of the worse.

From what Cancel Culture demands this week, only Gay people can play gay, only Autistic can play autistic, and directors can only hire actors who have nice living rooms

What are they going to do with the dead character? You're supposed to be actors, act like it.

Ok and no gay actors play straight characters

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