CANNES, France (Reuters) — Hollywood actor Kristen Stewart’s latest role in “Full Phil,” an absurdist comedy about a father and daughter navigating a strained relationship amid an endless stream of French cuisine, proved physically demanding when it came to food.
“Full Phil,” which premiered at a midnight screening on Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, sees Stewart and Woody Harrelson as a father and daughter staying at a hotel in Paris.
“I was like, ‘You guys are going to kill me.’ It was like so French, the food was just full of cream, full of butter, all the stuff that I’d asked to like be replaced,” she told Reuters.
“But then we figured out ways to like work around the grotesque,” said the Cannes regular, who has come to the festival as an actor, director and member of the jury.
Throughout the film, from French writer-director Quentin Dupieux, Stewart’s character, Madeleine, eats constantly, gorging herself on all the delicacies France has to offer.
However, it’s not Madeleine who is affected by her constant eating, but her father, Phil, who begins to bloat as the film progresses, which she begins to weaponize against him.
“What’s funny is she kept on eating sometimes between the takes,” Dupieux recalled.
