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Updated · Los Angeles Times · Aug 12
Kristen Stewart Smokes Joint During LA Interview as 'The Wrong Girls' Opens Friday
Updated
Updated · Los Angeles Times · Aug 12

Kristen Stewart Smokes Joint During LA Interview as 'The Wrong Girls' Opens Friday

3 articles · Updated · Los Angeles Times · Aug 12

Summary

  • Kristen Stewart lit a joint mid-interview in Los Angeles after a discussion of female friendship in “The Wrong Girls” grew, in her words, “too serious,” then kept smoking through the rest of the conversation.
  • Friday’s theatrical release is a lo-fi stoner comedy starring Stewart, 36, and Alia Shawkat, 37, as best friends pulled into a drug-fueled misadventure involving a Danish pharmaceutical company, the U.S. government and telepathic cats.
  • Dylan Meyer, 38 — the film’s writer-director and Stewart’s wife — said weed comedies remain hard to sell internationally because cannabis is still illegal in many places despite its casual acceptance in California.
  • The film marks Meyer’s feature directing debut and was produced through Nevermind Pictures, with Stewart framing its central friendship as a “coming-of-age story for 36-year-old women” that resists conventional ideas of adulthood.

Insights

How exactly did Dylan Meyer's collaborative directing style on her debut feature secure such a star-studded cast and loyal crew?
What hidden societal anxieties are masked by the surreal telekinetic cats and chaotic drug heists in Neon's latest lo-fi comedy?
Does "The Wrong Girls" redefine female liberation, or does it simply glorify arrested development for millennial women in their thirties?