Clea DuVall’s next film has found its star. Kristen Stewart is in talks to join the TriStar Pictures LGBTQ romantic comedy, Deadline reports. “The Happiest Season” marks DuVall’s follow-up to “The Intervention,” her 2016 feature directorial debut. She also co-starred in that pic.
Written by DuVall and fellow “Veep” star Mary Holland, “Happiest Season” centers on a young woman plotting to propose to her girlfriend at her family’s annual holiday party. There’s a major snag in her plans — she discovers her partner hasn’t yet come out to her conservative parents.
“Lizzie,” “Certain Women,” and “Personal Shopper” are among Stewart’s recent credits. She has a number of big budget projects in the works, including survival thriller “Underwater” and Elizabeth Banks’ “Charlie’s Angels” reboot. The “Twilight” actress also has plans to step behind the camera again. She’ll make her feature debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir “The Chronology of Water,” which explores how the Olympic hopeful lost her swimming scholarship to drugs and alcohol. The book also deals with Yuknavitch’s bisexuality and relationship with BDSM. Stewart’s 2017 short “Come Swim with Me” screened at Sundance and Cannes.
Stewart came out as bisexual last year. “It just seemed important, and topical,” she said of the decision. “Considering I had so many eyes on me, I suddenly realized [my private life] affects a greater number of people than just me,” she said. “It was an opportunity to surrender a bit of what was mine, to make even one other person feel good about themselves.”
DuVall has recently appeared in “The Romanoffs,” “All About Nina,” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”