After Cannes, Stewart will finally have some time to rest. She’s not taking another acting job until she directs a short film that she wrote a few years ago — a nonlinear story with just one actor. Like Foster, she envisions a career for herself as a director.
“I grew up on a movie set, and before I was an actor, I wanted so badly to be part of this feeling, where everybody was protecting this treasure,” she says. “Everybody would do stupid shit and work too many hours and sacrifice their lives to discover something. I felt that protection, and I know the possibility that it exists. I want to be responsible for it so badly.”