Stewart Connects 'Wrong Girls' Role to 'American Ultra'
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- Kristen Stewart stars as dual characters in 'The Wrong Girls' — unmotivated college dropout Frankie and her doppelganger Frances, a government employee developing a psychic drug — alongside Alia Shawkat's Molly, with the two codependent stoner best friends racing to pay rent within 24 hours after discovering a telepathic drug.
- Stewart connected her 'Wrong Girls' role to her 2015 'American Ultra' character Phoebe, who was also a government agent in a superhuman drug trial involving Jesse Eisenberg's stoner test subject Mike, reacting: 'Whoa, yeah, actually that does make sense...Fuck, dude, actually that's deep as hell, right?'
- Dylan Meyer wrote and directed 'The Wrong Girls' over 14 years, basing the script on stories about herself and her best friend, and acknowledged that a sequel is possible because the characters 'basically get superpowers at the end of the movie.'
- Meyer said she doesn't currently have sequel plans, describing the first film as 'a complete story' but adding 'I could easily write for them forever. There's no shortage of material for me in that area.'
- Nima Nourizadeh directed 'American Ultra' from a Max Landis screenplay, while the new film marks Meyer's directorial debut with Stewart in the lead role now in theaters.
Why it matters: Stewart's mid-interview recognition gives fans a potential connective thread between two stoner-leaning genre films a decade apart, positioning 'The Wrong Girls' inside a larger Stewart filmography of government-agent-stoner hybrids. For Meyer, the 14-year personal passion project finally reaching theaters — and explicitly leaving room for superpowered sequels — signals a possible franchise extension rather than a one-off indie.
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