Stewart says entertainment industry is ‘capitalist hell’ that creates barriers
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Actress Kristen Stewart said in an interview on Saturday that the entertainment industry is a “capitalist hell” and hates women and “marginalized voices.”
“We’re at an important juncture, because I think we’re poised for a complete system breakup. You know what I mean? I mean that in a general sense, but also specifically in the world that I live in, which is completely specific to the entertainment industry,” Stewart said.
Stewart spoke to the New York Times “Report” and said the entertainment industry is racist.
“We need to start playing our movies. I value every union so much. Believe me, we can’t survive without them. But some of the conditions, some of the rules, and some of the structures that we’ve established have created incredible barriers for artists to express themselves,” Stewart said.
Kristen Stewart attended the 35th Gotham Movie Awards held at Cipriani Wall Street on December 1, 2025 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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He argued that the industry needed a solution.
“I think the fact that it’s so impossible for people to tell stories, and it’s such a privileged and rare new position to find yourself doing it, is capitalist hell, and it hates women, it hates marginalized voices, and it’s racist. I think we need to find a way to make it easier to talk to each other in cinematic terms. It’s very hard right now to make blockbuster, whatever, movies that aren’t proven equations,” he said.
He said he wasn’t sure what that meant, but he hoped the next movie he made would be a big hit and he didn’t want to make a dollar off of it.
Kristen Stewart of “Love Is a Bleeding Lie” attends the premiere of “Sterben” (Dying) at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin held at Berlinale Palast on February 18, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. (Sebastian Reuters/Getty Images)
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“It’s very difficult to make films, and it doesn’t have to be that way. I’m just trying to think of a Marxist, Communist-like situation that other people would definitely think of, of course this psychopath says that, but I think it’s especially possible in these kinds of narrow and exclusionary environments. I’m not talking about the world at large, but for us the system has banned people and made it very difficult to be honest,” Stewart said.
In an interview in May, Stewart called out the industry’s power players and highlighted the still-limited opportunities for a handful of female filmmakers.
“[There’s a] “I think we can check off these little boxes and then dismantle the patriarchy and how we’re all made of it,” the actress said. “It’s easy for them to say, ‘Look at what we’re doing.’ We’re making Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie! ‘We’re making Margot Robbie’s movie!’ And you say, ‘Okay, great.’ You chose four.”
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Kristen Stewart accepts the Maverick Award onstage at the IndieWire Honors Winter Movie Awards 2025 held at Nya West on December 4, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (JC Olivera/IndieWire via Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Elizabeth Stanton contributed to this report.
