Kristen Stewart has said she will “probably not” stay in America, given the climate under The Trump Administration.
The former Twilight star and Oscar nominee spoke to The Times about her new film, The Chronology Of Water, which was filmed in Europe, and is released February 6. The actor currently lives between Los Angeles and New York, and was asked if she will stay in the US in the current climate.
“Probably not” she replied. “I can’t work freely there. But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people.” Elsewhere in the interview, she would criticise Donald Trump and his Presidency.
“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” she said. “But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.”
Kristen Stewart has been critical of the American film industry in recent interviews, telling the New York Times in December: “I think having it be so impossible for people to tell stories, and having it be such an exclusive and rarefied, novel position to find yourself doing so, is capitalist hell, and it hates women, and it hates marginalised voices, and it’s racist. I think that we need to figure out a way to make it easier to speak to each other in cinematic terms.”
The previous month, she also hit out at gender inequality in Hollywood. “In a post-Me Too moment, it seemed possible that stories made by and for women were finally getting their due, that we might be allowed or even encouraged to express ourselves and our shared experiences, all of our experiences without filter,” she told People.
“But I can now attest to the bare-knuckle brawling that it takes every single frame. When the content is too dark, too taboo, when the frankness with which it serves up observations about experiences routinely experienced by women frequently provoke disgust and rejection.”
Earlier this month, she said she would be open to directing a reboot of the Twilight franchise.
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