Kristen Stewart is stepping behind the camera again. The “Twilight” actress spilled the beans in an interview with Cannes Film Festival, where she’s currently serving as a juror. Stewart’s first short, “Come Swim,” screened at Sundance and Cannes last year. Now she’s prepping for her feature directorial debut. She’ll write and helm an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir “The Chronology of Water.”

“She’s in my blood and I knew that before I met her,” Stewart said of Yuknavitch. “As soon as I met her it was like we started this race without any sense of competition. I’m making the movie this summer but other than that, my only goal is just to finish the screenplay and hire a really spectacular actor: I’m going to write the best fucking female role,” she emphasized. “I’m going to write a role that I want so badly but that I’m not going to play.”

“This is is not your mother’s memoir,” “The Chronology of Water’s” official synopsis warns. “Lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful Lidia Yuknavitch accepts a college swimming scholarship in Texas in order to escape an abusive father and an alcoholic, suicidal mother. After losing her scholarship to drugs and alcohol, Lidia moves to Eugene and enrolls in the University of Oregon.” The book details Yuknavitch’s bisexuality, addiction issues, and her relationship with BDSM.

The project is expected to go into production this summer.

Stewart has two films in post-production, “JT Leroy” and “Underwater.” The former sees her playing a woman who spends six years pretending to be acclaimed writer JT LeRoy, the literary persona her sister-in-law fabricated, and the latter is a survival thriller about underwater researchers.

“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” “Personal Shopper,” and “Certain Women” are among Stewart’s recent credits.