They made a stoner comedy together. Kristen Stewart needs a joint to talk about how deep it is

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Set us as preferred Think of it as Chekhov’s joint, just waiting there on a table to be smoked.It’s the kind of thing that has been appearing lately as actors Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat and writer-director Dylan Meyer promote their new stoner comedy “The Wrong Girls.” (There has, perhaps not surprisingly, also been a lot of eating.) The trio are gathered around a conference table in the offices of an event space in the Frogtown neighborhood of Los Angeles, having just completed a photo shoot.

There is that joint, sitting in an ashtray, placed there by someone, just in case.To be clear, none of them are stoned right now.“I’m not ashamed,” says Stewart, 36, of smoking weed.“I want be able to finish my sentences and then I’ll smoke after.”“That’s how I feel,” agrees Meyer, 38.

“Sometimes you can really lose a thread.”All three of them recall previous experiences with smoking pot in professional settings.“I got too high,” recalls Shawkat, 37, of a visit to the podcast “Getting Doug with High” in 2013.

“And it was not great.” In theaters Friday, “The Wrong Girls” is about two young women in Los Angeles who love to smoke weed and eat.Frankie (Stewart), who has never righted herself after dropping out of Stanford, is anxious that her best friend and roommate Molly (Shawkat), an aspiring chef, is pulling away from their deep friendship and toward her relationship with Josh (Zack Fox).Frankie and Molly spend most of their time getting high and hanging out until a case of mistaken identity and a briefcase full of a mysterious drug sets them on the run from a Danish pharmaceutical company, the U.S.

government and maybe some very powerful squids.And they seem to have developed telekinetic powers and are now communicating with their cats.Though cannabis is legal in California for both...