How Imogen Poots and Kristen Stewart gave their all to The Chronology of Water
Imogen Poots has put in some great performances in her career, not least in The Chronology of Water, Kristen Stewart’s directing debut
Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.”
After 20 years of acting in films, television and on the stage, Poots is having a clarifying moment. And Shepard’s words somehow get to the heart of it all: the disorienting paradox of attempting to work as an artist in a big industry like Hollywood and preserving your soul in the process.
“I was always clear about what I wanted to do professionally, if only I could get there, in independent cinema and theatre,” Poots says. “But only in the last two years, something’s clicked.”
The 36-year-old English actor has always managed to elegantly navigate her way through the distracting noise of franchises and fame and find the types of interesting filmmakers, stories and projects she had always dreamed of, working with the likes of Peter Bogdanovich, Terrence Malick, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Imelda Staunton along the way.