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Kristen Stewart says Hollywood is ‘disgustingly sexist’

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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“Hollywood is disgustingly sexist,” Kristen Stewart recently said of gender disparities in the entertainment business.

In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.K., the Twilight star, who just made history by becoming the first American actress to win France’s César award, speaks candidly on gender politics. She tells the magazine that “women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It’s crazy. It’s so offensive it’s crazy.”

Stewart also discussed her distaste for s-x scenes, including those with her co-star and ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson.

“I only hate them when they’re contrived. That’s when it’s grotesquely uncomfortable,” she explained. “On Twilight, we had to do the most epic s-x scene of all time. It had to be transcendent and otherworldly, inhuman, better s-x than you can possibly ever imagine. We were like, ‘How do we live up to that?’ It was agony. Which sucks, because I wanted it to be so good.”

Kristen is equally perplexed as to why someone would desire fame.

“I … question when a fairly established actress finally does a scene in a movie when she shows her boobs, and she hasn’t done it up until [that] moment,” she said. “And maybe she only did it for the prestigious part and it’s OK for this time because it’s classy, and I’m like, ‘Oh God, thank you for revealing to the world your treasure’.”

Stewart made the remarks in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar, joining a growing number of high-profile women who are advocating for a re-evaluation of gender equality.

Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, both Suffragette co-stars, have lately spoken out against the paucity of possibilities for women in the film industry, with Mulligan describing Hollywood as “massively sexist.”

At a recent panel, Streep discussed her thoughts on why Hollywood is the way it is. She said that because women can connect with men more easily than men can with women, films about women, which would potentially appeal to just half of the population, are less likely to be made:

“This active empathy that women go through from the time we are little girls, we read all of literature. All of history. It’s really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinkerbell or Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And (women) are so used to that active empathizing with a protagonist of a male-driven plot. That’s what we’ve done all of our lives—you read history history, you read literature, Shakespeare. It’s all fellas. But (men) have never had to do the other thing. And the hardest thing, for me, as an actor is to have a story that men in the audience feel like they can know what I feel like. It’s very hard for them to put themselves in the shoes of a female protagonist.”

Mulligan bemoaned the fact that her next picture Suffragette took so long to reach the big screen. The picture, which focuses on women struggling for the right to vote in Britain, “is such a reflection of our film industry that the story hasn’t been told yet,” Mulligan added.

While receiving her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Boyhood” at this year’s Academy Awards presentation, Patricia Arquette notably demanded salary equity. “To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen who has paid taxes … this is our time to have wage equality and equal rights for women,” Arquette said.