Kristen Stewart and Woody Harrelson told Deadline about first meeting years ago and finally working together in the movie Full Phil
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Directed by Quentin Dupieux and premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, Full Phil stars the actors as a father and daughter eating their way through Paris
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“I only puked once,” recalled Stewart, who had “to eat all day long” on camera in the role
Kristen StewartandWoody Harrelsonreignited their friendship in a delicious new movie.
Speaking toDeadlineat theCannes Film Festival, the two costars opened up about bonding while shooting filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’sFull Phil— the story of a father and daughter on a food-filled trip to Paris — which premiered at the fest on Sunday, May 17.
“They had a very talented and willful French man making the food,” Stewart, 36, said of the shoot, which she added involved consuming plenty of rich cuisine onscreen without the advantage of a spit bucket.
“Our process means that I have to eat all day long,” the Oscar nominee recalled. “They wanted it to taste really good and reflect the French cuisine. And I was like, ‘I’m going to die. I’m not supposed to actually perish.' ”
Stewart recalled she "only puked once" — when she could smell butter in a cauliflower mash dish, despite the chef insisting “it’s all vegetal oil.”
Harrelson, 64, who has reportedly stuck to a vegan diet for over 30 years, said he would “have had a spit bucket… I wouldn’t care.”
Writer-director Dupieux’s film centers on Harrelson and Stewart’s father-daughter duo touring Paris, with the former somehow symbiotically experiencing all his child’s eating and drinking. “She’s a voracious bottomless pit, eating her feelings,” Stewart toldDeadlineof her character.
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“The eating’s cool because it’s nice to have obstacles,” she added, “like kind of hurdles that you don’t think about when you’re running lines… It’s very symbolic.”
Full Philis the first time Stewart and Harrelson have collaborated after meeting back when she was around 17.
“She had just worked withSean Pennand he was raving about her,” recalled theTrue Detectivestar. “And then I saw the movie [2007’sInto the Wild] and she was great in that. And then we hung out.”
“It was love at first sight,” theTwilightstar said of first becoming a fan of the “f---ing cool” Harrelson in 1992'sWhite Men Can’t Jump. “He took me to a vegan spot in the valley and we totally bro-ed down… So when this popped up, I was like, ‘I’ve wanted to work with this guy forever.' ”
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Following its Cannes premiere,Full Phildoes not yet have a release date.
Stewart next produces and stars inThe Wrong Girls(in theaters Aug. 14), written and directed by her wifeDylan Meyer, plus miniseriesThe Challengerand the filmFlesh of the Gods. Among Harrelson’s upcoming screen projects is comedy seriesBrotherscostarring Matthew McConaughey.
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