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Excerpt from his full interview Since you mentioned him, how was your time in Greece with David Cronenberg? It was awesome. He was really the most exciting part to me. I’ve always wanted to work with him. Being a Canadian, there are a few directors in Canada that you want to work with before they hang it up, and he was definitely one. The Greece thing was wild because we were in this insanely beautiful place, doing this very dark movie [Crimes of the Future]. But he was amazing, and I learned a ton about my job, in a weird way, while working with him. He has a very unique style of shooting, which I didn’t see coming. He doesn’t have a big shot list or anything like that. He’ll reinvent the scene on the day. He’ll have something in his head, but if it’s different on that day, he’ll shoot it differently. As an actor, that was really fun to be around. It’s probably the best cast I’ve been involved in, top to bottom, with Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart. Kristen is at the ...

Stewart was flanked by French director Olivier Assayas, with whom she is preparing to shoot “Sils Maria,” a drama set — as luck would have it — in the world of theater. “I play a personal assistant to an actress. It takes two very particular people to have that relationship be functional – one that services the other — because Juliette Binoche is playing the actress that I assist, and she is one of the most powerful women I think I’ve ever seen in film,”  said the “Twilight” star. Noting that her character is no pushover, Stewart said she would have to hold her own against the Oscar-winning Binoche.  “I’m going to try desperately to not be squashed by a woman like that, and it’s not going to be an easy thing,”  she said with a nervous laugh. Assayas said he had written the movie around Binoche, with whom he previously worked on his 2008 film “Summer Hours.” “I wanted to do a sort of portrait of an actress in her 40s, and I thought it would be more interesting to set it in...