See Kristen Stewart as Actress and Political Activist Jean Seberg in First Look at Biopic SEBERG, as Well as Eerie Account of Shooting the Film
We have a photo for you today of actress Kristen Stewart channeling late actress and political activist Jean Seberg in the upcoming biopic Seberg. Jean Seberg was famous for starring in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless, which made her name in French new-wave cinema. She was an FBI target due to her affiliation with the Black Panther Party. She died by suicide, but her husband at the time blamed the FBI for her mental state.
Stewart seems to have captured the look of the beautiful young actress, but Stewart also said she may have gotten more than she bargained for in playing the role. In a recent interview with EW, Stewart had this to say about becoming the icon, and about playing other real-life roles:
“Whenever you do a movie about a real person — especially if they’re no longer living — [it feels] like that thing where, if someone passes away, you wonder if they can see you pick your nose or something,” Stewart told EW during an interview about her 2018 Lizzie Borden biopic, the filming of which reportedly saw the 29-year-old’s costar, Chloë Sevigny, experiencing supposed supernatural communications from the film’s real-life, deceased subjects. “You wonder: Are they overlooking? I just played Jean Seberg, and [I would feel it] every single time there was a cat that would run through the frame!”
She went on to say:
“I always wondered if we were doing things right,” Stewart continued of her portrayal of the complicated figure, whose life ended by suspected suicide at age 40 in 1979, after she had undergone psychiatric treatment in the wake of the FBI’s campaign against her. “In this weird fantasy world, I became so close to her in my own little psyche of making this movie. If she [would’ve been able to] walk into a room, I would [feel] like a sister, or if someone said a bad word about her I’d [defend her] like, ‘Hey! She existed!” like I knew her. Anything that would happen on set that was a little eerie, I always attributed it to her!”
Seberg also stars Vince Vaughn, Jack O’Connell, Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Colm Meaney, and Zazie Beetz. We don’t know yet when the film will be released, but will let you know when we do. Check out the photo below, and let us know if you’re interested in this movie.
