Cannes, France – The Cannes Film Festival has been the host of the debut as a three -star director: Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and the newly arrived relative Harris Dickinson.
His films are very different, but the fulfillment of the dreams of a long time of being behind the camera. The three films are part of the section a certain respect of Cannes, which has helped launch the careers of directors such as Lanthimos Yorgos, Lynne Ramsay and Molly Manning Walker.
At 28, Dickinson is a promising actor, known by “Babygirl”, “where the crawdads” and the “triangle of sadness” of Palma d’Or worked for years to develop His movie, “Urchin.”
Johansson, twice nominated for Oscar Actor who has been a star since his adolescence and played Black Widow in multiple Marvel films, brought “Eleanor el Grande” A film about a non -agenario that coophates the history of the holocaust of his late friend, with Cannes this week.
Stewart, also nominated for Oscar in functions, debuted “the chronology of water” An adaptation of the 2011 Memoirs of Lidia Yuknavitch, last week.
The awards for the section of a certain respect will be announced on Friday, one day before the Cannes Film Festival closed.
This is what the actors turned into directors had to say about their first incursions to create a film from behind the camera.
“I wanted to direct from a very early age. I wanted to make movies,” says Dickinson, who began as many young creators do now: on YouTube. He even had a series of web sketches. “That was my first love, just doing things.”
Dickinson’s profile as an actor has exploded in recent years, but his desire to direct was so strong that he began to say not to roles.
“‘Urchin’ was all I could think. I was shedding. It was all I had in mind,” he said. “It is easy to say that when you have something you’ll get away from that, you know? Nothing to enter would make me question my own movie, which is a sign that I had to do it at this time.”
The film stars Frank Dillane as a homeless London who suffers from drug addiction.
Johansson is now one of the most recognizable stars in the world. It is also one of its most respected, winning two Oscar nominations in 2020, by “Marriage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit”.
Her success as an actor helped her to assume new roles in films, including production and, now, directing.
“At some point, I worked enough to stop worrying about not working or not being relevant, which is very liberating,” says Johansson. “I think it’s something that all actors feel for a long time until they do. I wouldn’t have been confident to direct this movie 10 years ago.”
She says that throughout her career, imagine how to make films has been part of her process: “either reading something and think:” I can imagine this in my mind “, or even be in a production and thought:” I am directing some elements of this out of necessity. “
New York’s “Eleanor The Great” stars in June Squibb as a 94 -year -old girl who, for pain and loneliness, takes care of the history of her friend’s holocaust survival as her own.
“It was eight years in process and then a really accelerated impulse. It is an obvious comparison but it was childbirth,” says Stewart of the film. “I was pregnant for a long time and then shouted bloody murder.”
Stewart in interviews has talked about challenging the myth that men are more appropriate to direct.
“It is really not fair that people think it is difficult to make a film to the extent that you need to know things before entering it. There are technical directors, but, Jesus Christ, hires a crew. You simply have a perspective and trust it,” he said. “My inexperience made this movie.”
Yuknavitch’s memoirs report their surviving sexual abuse by his father and how he sought refuge in competitive swimming and, later, writing.
While Stewart expressed doubts that she offered a lot to the star of her film, Imogen Poots, in terms of useful direction, the actor does not agree.
“Kristen is incredibly present, but at the same time he has this ability, such as a plant or something, to capture a slight change in the atmosphere where it is: ‘Wait a minute,” Poots said, making Stewart laugh. “There is this crazy brain at stake and it is a set of skills that comes in the form of intense curiosity.”
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