Kristen Stewart’s Irma Vep Appearance Isn’t Quite What You Expect

This post contains spoilers for the HBO series Irma Vep. Kristen Stewart was bound to show up in Irma Vep. The question was not if but when show creator Olivier Assayas—who is also the sole writer and director of the HBO miniseries—would deploy his favorite actor of late, dropping her into the meta, eight-episode rumination on his own life (which is based on a 1996 film Assayas wrote and directed, itself a work of cheeky auto-fiction). In Monday-night’s finale, Stewart is finally revealed, playing an artist whose complex relationship to fame is a knowing reflection of the movie star’s real… Read Full Article