The one musician who left Kristen Stewart starstruck: “The only person I can’t function around”
You might think that once a person attains proper celebrity status, the concept of being starstruck becomes slightly alien to them, save for meeting a true A-lister, perhaps or a legend of their industry. But the exception tends to be when they meet someone in a different field altogether, a film star meeting a sports star, for instance. And for Kristen Stewart, who loves her music, that’s exactly what happens.
The fun thing for her is that, unlike the general public, many of whom enjoy music just as much, her status as one of the leading actors around allows her to enjoy the kind of access most of us dream of. Last year was a good example, Stewart is a big fan of the Los Angeles band Lord Huron, and so, lo and behold, last year she appeared doing spoken word vocals on their single ‘Who Laughs Last’.
Over the past decade, she’s also played the lead protagonist in not just one or two, but four different music videos, including The Rolling Stones (‘Ride ‘em on Down’ from their 2016 throwback album Blue and Lonesome) and one for Interpol for their tune ‘If You Really Love Nothing’ two years later.
In addition to a promo for Rita Ora, most recently in 2023, Stewart also appeared in the video for a single by the Las Vegas singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis, also frontwoman for the band Rilo Kiley. The video in question was for Lewis’ single ‘Just one of the guys’, which might have been a slightly ironic title for Stewart, given she can barely be in Lewis’ presence.
She told V Magazine about hanging out with Lewis, saying: “She’s the only person I’ve ever met that I can’t function around.”
Presumably, the experience of making the video was made a little bit easier for Stewart back in 2014 by the fact that she had some fellow movie stars in the clip for company in the form of Brie Larson and Anne Hathaway, plus they were disguised as men during it anyway, as Stewart apparently channelled Justin Bieber throughout.
Lewis herself is actually no stranger to acting and becoming known for it at a young age, in a similar vein to Stewart. She went from appearing in adverts as a kid to taking small roles on well-known TV shows like The Golden Girls and Roseanne before landing up in films like Tobey Maguire’s Pleasantville in 1998 and as one of the main characters in Maguire’s debut movie The Wizard.
Stewart of course has spent the ten years or so since appearing in Lewis’ video securing her spot as one of most in-demand indie actors around, nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2022 for her performance in the Princess Diana story Spencer, and taking roles that push boundaries and then some, especially movies like the fantastically bloody thriller Love Lies Bleeding from 2024.
She’s now going to be not just pushing boundaries but smashing them to pieces with her latest film, this time on the other side of the lens with The Chronology of Water, starring Imogen Poots and Thora Birch. The movie got a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes festival last year and pulls no punches in its portrayal of sex, violence and trauma suffered by women, hitting cinemas at the end of next week in the UK.
