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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Q&A: Kristen Stewart on Body Horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

US actress Kristen Stewart poses as she leaves the Festival Palace after the screening of the film "Crimes Of the Future" during the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 23, 2022. (AFP)

In David Cronenberg’s "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee.

In Cronenberg’s film, a Cannes Film Festival entry opening June 3 in theaters, Stewart’s character, breathlessly excited by what she's witnessed, transforms into a fan and, maybe, an artist.

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