Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 22 of Awards Chatter,

the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and on this episode I am so excited to be joined by one of my favorite

actresses and one of my favorite people in this business, a tremendous and I think

widely underrated talent, the actress Kristen Stewart.

She's just 25 years old, but she's been in the business for almost all of her life.

She's tiny, just 5-5, but huge, with a large and loyal and sometimes rabid following, particularly

since her foray into the Twilight films a few years ago, and that's proven to be something

of a mixed blessing in her life. On the one hand, virtually everyone knows her name. On the other

hand, a lot of people don't realize that behind the face of this big franchise is an actress

with a lot of skill and talent that sometimes has been overshadowed by her celebrity. If people were familiar with her filmography, which includes

panic room into the wild, on the road, still Alice, and many other movies that people really

respect, then perhaps that would not be the case. But unfortunately a lot of people only see the quote unquote big movies

and don't know that for most of her career,

Kristen Stewart's excelled in Indies.

And really never has given much of a damn about the stuff that comes with being a movie star.

It's therefore appropriate enough that she's getting the best reviews of her life for a movie that basically

sends up the absurdity of Celebrity.

It's called Clouds of Selz Maria, a less than ideal title because nobody

knows what the hell it's about, but a really special movie written and directed by the French filmmaker

Olivier Ace, starring Oscar winner Juliet Benoge and featuring in a very memorable

supporting role Kristen Stewart as the assistant to the movie star played by

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