Adapting a memoir as creatively narrated as Lidia Yuknavitch ’s The Chronology of Water is no small feat, but Kristen Stewart proved herself more than capable with her recent directorial debut. The film version stars English actress Imogen Poots as Lidia, a traumatized young woman finding herself through swimming and writing, and she is stunning in it, using Yuknavitch’s real story to inform a character that feels all Poots’s own.

Vogue spoke to Poots about diving deep into Yuknavitch’s body of work, bonding with Stewart because they’re “both sort of nerds,” embracing the juxtaposition inherent in her craft, and her fabulously floral plans for the holiday season.

Vogue : How did this project come to you?

Imogen Poots: Well, it came as a script, and then I made a tape. I met w

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