"It’s easy for them to be like, 'Look what we’re doing. We’re making Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie! We’re making Margot Robbie’s movie!'" theand, as we’ve all come to expect of a KStew cover story, she looked super hot and said some very astute, deliciously acerbic things about Hollywood. to the kinds of stories she suspects film-goers want to see . But her most searing introspections about the industry arrived while discussing her directorial debut.
“My movie is about incest and periods and a woman violently repossessing her voice and body, and it is, at times, hard to watch,” Stewart told the magazine. “But it’s gonna be a fucking thrill ride. And I think that’s commercial, but I don’t think that I have any gauge on what that means.”commercial is the fact that—as Stewart notes elsewhere in the interview—it was absurdly difficult to secure its funding.
“It’s kind of a self-conscious thing to talk about because it’s hard to get anything made,” Stewart said before taking aim at the Hollywood suits who decide what stories get told . “It’s easy for them to be like, ‘Look what we’re doing. We’re making“And you’re like, OK, cool. You’ve chosen four…” she continued. “And I’m in awe of those women, I love those women it feels phony.
“ thinking that we can check these little boxes, and then do away with the patriarchy, and how we’re all made of it,” Stewart said. “If we’re congratulating each other for broadening perspective, when we haven’t really done enough, then we stop broadening.” This conversation, of course, isn’t the first time she’s skewered the many social and political confines—for women, but for queer people, too—in the industry and outside of it. Of her“I think there’s a certain overt acknowledgment of like, a female sexuality that has its own volition in a way that’s annoying for people who are sexist and homophobic,” Stewart told Stephen Colbert during an appearance on. “Female sexuality isn’t supposed to actually want anything but to be had.