Love Lies Bleeding trailer: Kristen Stewart gets steamy with bodybuilder Katy O'Brian but crime, violence, and guns complicate lesbian romance

Kristen Stewart gets steamy with muscular Katy O’Brian but their lesbian romance is complicated by her family’s criminal dealings in the trailer for Love Lies Bleeding.

The 33-year-old Spencer star could be seen getting intimate with the 34-year-old actress who plays bodybuilder in the minute-long clip for the highly-anticipated A24 film but perhaps the most hair-raising part is all the violence and intensity.

The film is set in the 1980s with Kristen Stewart as reclusive gym owner Lou who begins a hot romance with muscular fitness competitor Jackie.

However their love spins out into violence as they find themselves intertwined with Lou’s criminal family including her menacing father Lou Sr. (played by Ed Harris) who is being pursued by the FBI.

The trailer begins with Jackie showing her bulging muscles in a bodybuilding competition as short glimpses of assumed violence are shown.

Kristen Stewart gets steamy with muscular Katy O'Brian but their lesbian romance is complicated by her family's criminal dealings in the trailer for Love Lies Bleeding

Kristen Stewart gets steamy with muscular Katy O’Brian but their lesbian romance is complicated by her family’s criminal dealings in the trailer for Love Lies Bleeding

It then touches on the beginnings of their romance as they exchange flirty glances while the bodybuilder is exercising.

Lou tells her: ‘You’re looking pretty good in there. There’s some pretty serious lines going.’

The two begin kissing in the gym before it cuts to a scene in the bedroom where the two have sex.

Things then take a turn as Lou Sr. is shown looking rather villainous as Jackie asks: ‘Why don’t you want me working for your dad?’

The patriarch is shown aiming a handgun at another man as Lou responds: ‘Well he’s a psycho.’

Lou Sr. does end up taking Jackie under his wing as he teaches her how to shoot a gun.

Concerned about the life of crime that her girlfriend has no chosen, Lou warns her father by saying: ‘If you touch her, I’m gonna tell them everything you ever did.’

Lou Sr. replies: ‘Are you threatening me?’

The film is set in the 1980s with Kristen Stewart as reclusive gym owner Lou who begins a hot romance with muscular fitness competitor Jackie

The film is set in the 1980s with Kristen Stewart as reclusive gym owner Lou who begins a hot romance with muscular fitness competitor Jackie

The trailer begins with Jackie showing her bulging muscles in a bodybuilding competition as short glimpses of assumed violence are shown

The trailer begins with Jackie showing her bulging muscles in a bodybuilding competition as short glimpses of assumed violence are shown

It then touches on the beginnings of their romance as they exchange flirty glances while the bodybuilder is exercising
Lou tells her: 'You're looking pretty good in there. There's some pretty serious lines going'

It then touches on the beginnings of their romance as they exchange flirty glances while the bodybuilder is exercising

The two begin kissing in the gym before it cuts to a scene in the bedroom where the two have sex

The two begin kissing in the gym before it cuts to a scene in the bedroom where the two have sex

Jackie shows off her impressive muscles after their night of passion

Jackie shows off her impressive muscles after their night of passion

Lou looks adoringly at her

Lou looks adoringly at her

Things then take a turn as Lou Sr. is shown looking rather villainous as Jackie asks: 'Why don't you want me working for your dad?'

Things then take a turn as Lou Sr. is shown looking rather villainous as Jackie asks: ‘Why don’t you want me working for your dad?’

That is when things really ramp up considerably as flashes of scenes of violence are shown along with clips of Lou and Jackie’s passion-filled road trip to Las Vegas which sees them getting hot and heavy and running through the desert in glittered purple bikinis.

Her violent scenes won’t be the only intense parts of the movie as Kristen has previously has teased that her sex scenes in the thriller will ‘shock people’ as she criticized intimate moments on screen as being almost mechanical.

‘They don’t take their clothes off, but this is going to shock people,’ she told Variety Magazine in an interview.

‘All you ever see is a dress coming up and a head going down under. I think even hetero sex on film is so rote… No one actually really wants to reveal themselves.’

Kristen also said she found it ‘really sexy’ to portray a more masculine character, rather than the traditionally feminine roles that propelled her into the spotlight.

She explained: ‘There was something about having the things that I have found attractive be really glorified. 

‘It was really sexy, and I don’t mean from an outsider’s perspective: I felt turned on by it, and it was cool to have people witness that.’

Love Lies Bleeding is the second feature film from writer and director Rose Glass, which she co-wrote alongside Weronika Tofilska.

The patriarch is shown aiming a handgun at another man as Lou responds: 'Well he's a psycho'

The patriarch is shown aiming a handgun at another man as Lou responds: ‘Well he’s a psycho’

Lou Sr. does end up taking Jackie under his wing as he teaches her how to shoot a gun

Lou Sr. does end up taking Jackie under his wing as he teaches her how to shoot a gun

Concerned about the life of crime that her girlfriend has no chosen, Lou warns her father by saying: 'If you touch her, I'm gonna tell them everything you ever did'

Concerned about the life of crime that her girlfriend has no chosen, Lou warns her father by saying: ‘If you touch her, I’m gonna tell them everything you ever did’

Lou Sr. replies: 'Are you threatening me?'

Lou Sr. replies: ‘Are you threatening me?’

That is when things really ramp up considerably as flashes of scenes of violence are shown along with clips of Lou and Jackie's passion-filled road trip to Las Vegas

That is when things really ramp up considerably as flashes of scenes of violence are shown along with clips of Lou and Jackie’s passion-filled road trip to Las Vegas

It sees them getting hot and heavy and running through the desert in glittered purple bikinis

It sees them getting hot and heavy and running through the desert in glittered purple bikinis

Love Lies Bleeding will hit select theaters on March 8 with a wider release following on March 15

Love Lies Bleeding will hit select theaters on March 8 with a wider release following on March 15


The synopsis reads: ‘Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. 

‘But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.’

The thriller features a whole host of stars making up the ensemble cast including Dave Franco, The Hunger Games’ Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov.

Love Lies Bleeding will hit select theaters on March 8 with a wider release following on March 15.

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