Kristen Stewart says Hollywood’s self-congratulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’

Kristen Stewart has chastised Hollywood’s efforts at gender equality, saying that the trade clapping itself on the again for an embrace of feminine film-makers “feels phony”.

Chatting with Porter journal for the discharge of Love Lies Bleeding, a violent romance set on the planet of feminine bodybuilding, Stewart stated a lot of the high-profile greenlighting of feminine tales was lip service.

“[There’s a] pondering that we are able to examine these little containers, after which eliminate the patriarchy, and the way we’re all manufactured from it,” she stated. “It’s simple for them to be like, ‘Look what we’re doing. We’re making Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film! We’re making Margot Robbie’s film!’ And also you’re like, OK, cool. You’ve chosen 4.”

Stewart went on to reward Gyllenhaal’s movie, The Misplaced Daughter, and Robbie’s Barbie, saying:

“I’m in awe of these ladies, I really like these ladies [but] it feels phony. If we’re congratulating one another for broadening perspective, once we haven’t actually finished sufficient, then we cease broadening.”

Statistics would seem to help Stewart’s scepticism. A report launched by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in January confirmed ladies made no main good points in Hollywood in 2023: “Of the 116 administrators evaluated in 2023, 12.1% had been ladies.”

Founder Stacy L Smith stated: “For the businesses and trade members who need to imagine that the director downside is mounted, it’s nowhere close to solved.”

Stewart spoke out concerning the challenges she has confronted making an attempt to finance an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water, which she hopes to direct, and which has been within the works for seven years.

“My film is about incest and durations and a girl violently repossessing her voice and physique, and it’s, at instances, laborious to look at … but it surely’s gonna be a fucking thrill journey,” she stated. “And I feel that’s industrial, however I don’t suppose that I’ve any gauge on what meaning.

“I feel folks would need to see that, however then … I feel perhaps folks wanna watch motion pictures about, like, Jesus and canine.”