‘The movie is to be eaten alive and re-metabolised and shat out differently, from everyone’s perspective,” says Kristen Stewart, bracingly. “It’s as arbitrary as this mass of chaotic images we call memory.”View image in fullscreen Stewart directing Poots on set. Poots and Stewart, both big readers, get into a meaty discussion about how confessional literature is taken seriously when men write it, and “belittled, constantly”, Stewart says, when it comes from women. Poots read Stewart’s screenplay, and then the book, and then sent Stewart “a really pretentious email, which she lapped up”, she teases. “This is a very Kristen Stewart movie.”She is glad, she says, that this is the story Stewart chose to tell.