Kristen Stewart recently revealed the studio behind Happiest Season, the queer holiday rom-com directed by Clea DuVall, had extensive criticisms to make about her character as the film was being developed.

Stewart starred in Happiest Season opposite Mackenzie Davis. The pair played longtime partners Abby and Harper who go back to Harper’s hometown for the holidays, where Abby learns her girlfriend never actually came out to her family. They must then spend the holidays pretending to be straight, much to Abby’s horror.

“The identity was beaten out of my goals there,” Stewart said in a recent conversation with Them. “I was getting so many studio executive notes about my hair and my clothes. I was like, ‘You did read the script. You did hire me. What are we doing here?’ It was fucking annoying.”

She added, “And it’s fine, because I guess there are ways that you need to shroud things for everyone to easily digest. And I’m down with that. And honestly, fucking hats off to Clea, because I don’t have the patience [to do] that.”

Stewart mentioned that she viewed her role in Happiest Season as the “hidden vegetables” of a family friendly movie aimed at promoting tolerance.

But her latest film Love Lies Bleeding required no shrouding. “It’s pretty fucking sick,” she said.

In Love Lies Bleeding, Stewart plays Lou, a gym manager who strikes up a relationship with Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious body builder passing through town. But their relationship becomes complicated by Lou’s family and their ties to crime and violence.

Director Rose Glass noted that the character’s “boyish charm” felt similar to Stewart’s true nature.

“Weirdly, I can’t think of that many roles like this she’s done, and yet to be honest, it feels like it’s maybe a bit closer to who she is,” Glass told Variety.

Love Lies Bleeding is playing in theaters now.