Kristen Stewart considers leaving US due to Donald Trump presidency
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Kristen Stewart is planning to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump.
The “Twilight” actor revealed in an interview Times He said that he developed his directing career to shoot films in Europe because he “could not work freely” in America.
His directorial debut, “Chronology of Water”, was shot in Latvia “because it was impossible to do it in America”.
Stewart added that Trump’s threat of tariffs on movies shot outside the country is “terrible” for the film industry.
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Kristen Stewart criticized Donald Trump’s proposed film industry tariff. (Michael Buckner)
“Under the Trump administration, reality is completely collapsing,” he said. “But we must take a page from his book and create the reality we want to live in.”
The bi-coastal actress, who splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, admitted that she “probably” won’t be living in the states for much longer.
“I can’t work freely there,” Stewart said. “But I don’t want to give up completely. I want to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throats of the American people.”
In September, four months after first considering the idea, Trump proposed imposing a 100% tariff on films made outside the United States.
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“Ours movie making business stolen from the United States by other countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby’. California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been hit particularly hard!” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time: “So, to solve this long-standing, never-ending problem, I will impose a 100% tariff on all films shot outside the United States.”
“Under Trump, reality is completely collapsing,” Kristen Stewart said. (Sebastian Reuters/Getty Images)
“Thank you for your interest in this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he finished.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office responded: Description of X: “The Governor tried to explain to Trump months ago, when this proposal was first proposed, that his actions would cause irreparable harm to the US film industry. His move today is 100% stupid.”
Trump’s proposal has yet to gain further momentum.
Stewart has struggled to get the film made since he first announced his project at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, but he said: Porter Magazine in 2024 That he plans to shoot in Latvia.
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“There’s a nascent film culture there. Look, I’m interested in the way we make films here [in the U.S.]But I needed some kind of radical detachment. I’m not a director yet. I need to make a student film. I can’t do that here,” he explained at the time.
Kristen Stewart made her directorial debut in Latvia. (Matt Winkelmeyer)
His history with the president goes back more than a decade. While Stewart was dating her “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson, she was involved in a cheating scandal with “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders, to whom she was married at the time.
Trump tweeted a series of tweets at the time: “Robert Pattinson should not take Kristen Stewart back. He cheated on her like a dog and will do it again; just watch. He can do much better!”
Trump followed up days later with another post on the platform, writing: “Everyone knows I was right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart. He’ll be thanking me in a few years. Be smart, Robert.”
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart dated for four years after meeting on the set of “Twilight.” (Chris Polk/FilmMagic)
Last month, the “Adventureland” actor slammed the entertainment industry as a “capitalist hell” that hates women and “marginalized voices.”
In an interview with The New York Times, Stewart said: “We’re at an important juncture, because I think we’re poised for a complete system breakup. Do you know what I mean? I mean that in a general sense, but also in a way that’s specific to the world I live in, which is completely specific to the entertainment industry.” “Report.”
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“We need to start playing our movies. I value every union very much. Believe me, we cannot survive without them. But some of the conditions, some of the rules, and some of the structures we have established have created incredible obstacles for artists to express themselves.”
He argued: “It’s very difficult to make films, it doesn’t need 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 possible, especially in such 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.”
