In 'The Wrong Girls,' Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play messy stoner BFFs

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Ailsa Chang, Kathryn Fink

Published August 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM CDT

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dylan Meyer about her directorial debut, The Wrong Girls and the value of seeing women being silly and making dubious decisions onscreen.

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Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist and a host of NPR’s newsmagazine All Things Considered, as well as NPR’s daily news podcast Consider This.

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