Kristen Stewart falls for a bodybuilder in “Love Lies Bleeding,” an electrical (and violent) romance thriller that premiered Saturday night time at Sundance Movie Competition.

Rose Glass (“Saint Maud”) directed the film, which co-stars Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov.

O’Brian isn’t any stranger to the world of bodybuilding, having executed competitions up to now, so she didn’t battle with the bodily facet of taking part in Jackie. She discovered it harder to get into the psychological headspace.

“This function scared me. It was one thing I’d by no means executed earlier than. It was an intense half,” she informed Selection On The Carpet offered by DIRECTV. “I labored with an appearing coach, and we broke down the character.”

Jena Malone, who performs the sibling of Stewart’s character, detailed how they fashioned their sisterly bond.

“We tackled one another lots. It was very tactile,” she mentioned. “We now have a kindred spirit.”

Dave Franco, who has performed degenerate characters in comedies like “Neighbors” and “21 Leap Avenue,” says JJ — who’s married to Malone’s Beth — is the worst of all of them.

“He’s a really dangerous individual. He’s a degenerate,” Franco mentioned. “You shouldn’t sympathize with this man.”

Glass, who wrote and directed the movie, mentioned she wished to ship up the concept of a “sturdy feminine character.”

“It’s a really oversimplified, barely hole time period,” she informed Selection. To subvert that specific trope, she began with having “this very actually sturdy girl, after which discover methods of peeling that aside. Energy for energy’s sake is form of meaningless and the messy actuality is extra attention-grabbing.”

Throughout the Saturday night time premiere, held on the Eccles Heart, the viewers cheered a number of instances for triumphant character moments, laughed on the darkish humor and squirmed of their seats through the many ultra-gory scenes.

Following the screening, Glass and the forged gathered for a short Q&A, the place one viewers member requested about using violence within the movie.

“It’s a violent movie,” Glass mentioned. “Violence might be nice enjoyable in movies. There are such a lot of folks whose jobs and experience go into it: we had superb VFX and stunt coordinators, and the sound design is genius and had a very good impact. Each division, you simply must attempt to push it to the max.”

Maybe probably the most memorable second of the Q&A was when Franco, who performs a personality he known as “the most important fucking asshole of all time,” talked about making an attempt to determine backstory and motivation with Glass, even when it didn’t find yourself on the display screen.

“We talked about, ‘Sure, this man is horrible, however why is he like that? He most likely had a tough childhood, skilled his personal violence…” at which Stewart interrupted him, grabbing her mic to jokingly inform him to “Shut the fuck up!” The theater erupted in laughter, however Stewart inspired him to maintain speaking about his course of after her ad-lib.

“Love Lies Bleeding” is opening in theaters on March 8. Watch Selection‘s interview with Glass on the premiere under.