Summary
In a world so intimately connected through the internet, life can feel isolating at times.
STEVEN YEUN: I had a lot of fun.
I feel thatIwas really fun.
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It’s a lot of fun.
I think people are going to enjoy it.
Kristen, I have an individual question for you.
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KRISTEN STEWART: Oh, I didn’t actually film it.
It was just sort of something that I wanted to try out.
[Laughs] No, Im kidding.
We rolled when we made it.
I’m finishing it right now.
It’s been a long process.
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It’s an incredibly ephemeral film.
It’s a movie about memory.
I’ve just never had that experience.
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I’ve never been around it.
She’s so incredible.
She’s like family to me now.
A postapocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.
That’s what you want a movie to do to you.
I have made family members doing this, and we will continue making movies forever.
It was such a good first step.
When can you see it?
I don’t know.
It’s a festival movie.
The film stars Imogen Poots.
So there’s a decent chance of Toronto later this year.
But we’re doing an interview right now.
[Laughs] I’m not sure yet.
Wherever it winds up… Not sure yet.
Jumping into why I get to talk to you guys.
Because it’s really ambitious.
That was what was exciting for me with the script.
It’s a future world.
It just felt so human to me.
It was like this cool invitation to do an acting exercise that would totally strip you down.
The internet’s pretty obsessed with it.
Just fake versus real.
Did you watch any people who are online and say, Yeah, I can copy that?
You don’t know what’s real and what’s fake.
You don’t know any of that stuff.
So it didn’t feel like I was judging what was going on on social media.
STEWART: It’s funny that you say that.
As you were talking, I was like, the internet changes with the wind.
I mean, like in split-second periods, and this movie was written years ago.
STEWART: So the idea of influencers was a little bit more surfacey, superficial, sort of presentational.
Nowadays, it is all about really letting it all hang out in a kind of more raw way.
STEWART: Stay out of there.
YEUN: [Laughs] Yeah!
But you know what I mean?
I feel like people don’t even look at the thing for what it is as much anymore.
STEWART: You want to know what other people think about the thing without even looking at thething.
YEUN: You know what I mean?
It almost feels like that’s where the people are meeting.
Let’s see what the conversation is about that, which is also weird.
We’re in a weird reality right now.
I need long blond hair then.
I need to get extensions, and it needs to be straight, and I need to have eyelashes.
She just wants to spread positivity.
I don’t know, not so bad.
YEUN: There were also things that it revealed over time, too.
STEWART: Where am I?
YEUN: Yeah, Where am I?
And so, Sam and Andy, they went there.
They really went there.
Love Meis now playing in select theaters.
