Kristen Stewart just hosted a masterclass on how to perfect the naked dress trend.
Stewart, 35, stepped out in style at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Friday, October 31, dressed in a white lacy frock. The mainly sheer fabric showed off Stewart’s white bra and black lace panties underneath.
The actress completed her look with black pumps and a tangle of silver choker necklaces. For glam, Stewart styled her jet-black locks into a messy updo with a fringe bang.
Stewart was on hand at the annual film festival to accept the award for Rising Star Director. (Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, premieres in December.)
“It is a very rare occurrence to feel better once you get on this stage,” Stewart joked in her acceptance speech. “This movie [was] a confessional diaristic piece, and it is serious, but it’s also so exuberant to be able to let it all hang out. There’s not a place that I would prefer to be honored for the stuff that means everything to me, which is being together and reaching toward each other.”
Stewart also gave a shoutout to her “sound department.”
“I was so desirous of being able to watch this movie with a blindfold on, and I tortured these people,” she quipped. “I think they liked it, and we’re going to do it again and again and again. Thank you Amanda and Brent and Mike, I’m, like, in love with you — and you’re my family. That is what it takes to make a movie.”
She continued, “It’s an act of love, period. We’re not selling anything here. We’re showing ourselves, and what an absolute blessing to be able to do that.”
The Chronology of Water was adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch‘s 2011 memoir of the same name, which focuses on a swimmer-turned-artist’s sexuality.
“My movie is about incest and periods and a woman violently repossessing her voice and body, and it is, at times, hard to watch … but it’s gonna be a f***ing thrill ride,” Stewart previously told Porter magazine in May 2024, teasing the film’s premise. “I think that’s commercial, but I don’t think that I have any gauge on what that means. I think people would want to see that, but then … I think maybe people wanna watch movies about, like, Jesus and dogs.”
The former Twilight star further revealed that she shot The Chronology of Water in Latvia — for a specific reason.
“It’s a fledgling film culture there,” she explained to the outlet. “Look, I’m all about the way we make movies here [in the U.S.], but I needed a sort of radical detachment. I am not a director yet. I need to make a student film. I can’t do that here. [There’s a] thinking that we can check these little boxes, and then do away with the patriarchy, and how we’re all made of it.”
According to Stewart, she is also aware that she is only just starting out as a filmmaker.
“If we’re congratulating each other for broadening perspective, when we haven’t really done enough, then we stop broadening. As an actor, I’m called upon to serve other people’s visions,” Stewart said. “You get greedy. It feels good to be called upon … even if you don’t love the thing. I think it’s nice that, as I’ve gotten older, I would much prefer to tailor my experiences to result-oriented goals, versus, just, ‘This is gonna feel good for me right now.’”
