Stewart dives into grief in directorial debut

NEW YORK (AP) — Kristen Stewart’s directing ambitions go all the way back to when she was an 11-year-old performing in the 2002 David Fincher thriller “Panic Room.”

”I was working with Jodie Foster and I was like, ‘I’m going to direct. I’m going to be the youngest director who exists,’” Stewart recalled in an interview.

When she, years later, told Foster she was finally making something, Stewart says, “She was like, ‘Dude, the first thing you’re going to realize is that you have nothing to learn.”

It took longer than Stewart expected, but she has now made a short film titled “Come Swim.”

The film announces Stewart’s filmmaking ambitions and opens a new chapter in the fast-moving career of the 27-year-old actress.