Kristen Stewart said “she felt turned on” by the lesbian sex scenes in her new LGBTQIA+ romance-thriller “Love Lies Bleeding” — and that they will “shock people” for their frankness.
“They don’t take their clothes off, but this is going to shock people,” Stewart told Variety, adding that it’s a change of pace from standard sex scenes in movies featuring heterosexual characters.
“All you ever see is a dress coming up and a head going down under,” she said.
“I think even hetero sex on film is so rote. You go, ‘OK, I know what that looks like in movies, that’s what we’ll do,’ because no one actually wants to reveal themselves.”
“It was really sexy, and I don’t mean from an outsider’s perspective,” she went on. “I felt turned on by it, and it was cool to have people witness that.”
“Love Lies Bleeding,” premiering Jan. 20 at the Sundance Film Festival, is set in the ’80s. Stewart, 33, plays Lou, a reclusive gym manager who falls for bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brian) after a chance encounter in Las Vegas.
According to Variety, Lou and Jackie have sex multiple times, including a time in Lou’s bathroom.
The couple’s hot-and-heavy romance is tested when Lou’s father’s violent business dealings start to impact their relationship.
“But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s crime family,” according to the movie’s synopsis.
Stewart added that she found it “really sexy” to portray a more masculine character.
“There was something about having the things that I have found attractive be really glorified,” she told the publication.
The movie opens wide March 8 with co-stars Dave Franco, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov.
Stewart, who shot to fame in the “Twilight” movie franchise, came out as gay during her “Saturday Night Live” monologue in 2017.
She is currently engaged to screenwriter Dylan Meyer, after previously dating model Stella Maxwell, producer Alicia Cargile and her “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson.
She is slated to star opposite Steven Yeun in the sci-fi post-apocalyptic romance “Love Me,” which she described to Entertainment Weekly as “a love story between a satellite and a buoy; it’s hard to explain.
“I hope I don’t botch it, because it’s a really revolutionarily written script.”
