Kristen Stewart is ‘so angry’ over the ‘devastating’ lack of progress following the MeToo and Times Up movements in 2017-18, which were supposed to help level the playing field for women behind-the-scenes in Hollywood.
The 35-year-old Oscar nominee cautioned she was ‘in a severe state of PMS’ while presenting her seven-minute keynote speech during the Academy Women’s Luncheon in LA on Tuesday.
‘In a post-MeToo moment, it seemed possible that stories made by and for women were finally getting their due, that we might be allowed or even encouraged to express ourselves and our shared experiences, all of our experiences without filter,’ Kristen said at the Academy Museum.
‘I can now attest to the bare-knuckle brawling that it takes every step of the way when the content is too dark, too taboo, when the frankness with which it serves up observations about experiences routinely experienced by women, frequently provokes disgust and rejection.’
Stewart – decked out in head-to-toe Chanel SS/26 – continued: ‘We can discuss wage gaps and taxes on tampons and measure [inequality] in lots of quantifiable ways, but the violence of silencing, it’s like we’re not even supposed to be angry. But I can eat this podium with a fork and f***ing knife. I’m so angry.’
The Sacramento actress went on to say that ‘the backsliding from a brief moment of progress is statistically devastating.’
Kristen Stewart is ‘so angry’ over the ‘devastating’ lack of progress following the MeToo and Times Up movements in 2017-18, which were supposed to help level the playing field for women behind-the-scenes in Hollywood
‘Such a pitiful number of films from the past year have been made by women. We obviously need many more women’s luncheons in our lives. We need to become ladies who lunch all the f***ing time,’ Kristen stated.
‘There are too few of us. We’re all here together now, and it seems like there’s a lot, Jesus Christ, there’s not. It’s not our fault. Sure, our business is in a state of emergency, man, and you know the last thing that I wanna do here is lose the celebration under a pile of p***ed off rubble.
‘We are allowed to be proud of ourselves and maybe to allow each other to reclaim the gratitude we’ve all become talented at performing and really taste it from the inside out.’
Stewart stressed that she is ‘not grateful to a boys’ club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives.’
‘Let’s try and not be tokenized. Let’s start printing our own currency,’ the homeschooled millennial declared.
Kristen was joined at the feminist function by her wife Dylan Meyer, whom she tied the knot with on April 20 after six years of dating.
The 37-year-old nepo-baby of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nicholas Meyer shared an Election Day sticker snap of Stewart posing with her Chronology of Water actress Thora Birch.
‘Use your voice whenever there’s an opportunity,’ Dylan captioned the Instagram post. ‘Scream as loud as you can! Yes on 50!’
Thora portrays Claudia in the Twilight alum’s feature directorial debut, which hits limited US theaters in December before a wider release in January.
Kristen’s 128-minute big-screen adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir also stars Imogen Poots, Jim Belushi, and Tom Sturridge.
The 35-year-old Oscar nominee cautioned she was ‘in a severe state of PMS’ while presenting her seven-minute keynote speech during the Academy Women’s Luncheon in LA on Tuesday
Kristen said:Â ‘I can now attest to the bare-knuckle brawling that it takes every step of the way when the content is too dark, too taboo, when the frankness with which it serves up observations about experiences routinely experienced by women, frequently provokes disgust and rejection’
Stewart was joined at the feminist function by her wife Dylan Meyer (L), whom she tied the knot with on April 20 after six years of dating
The 37-year-old nepo-baby of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nicholas Meyer shared an Election Day sticker snap of the Sacramento actress posing with her Chronology of Water actress Thora Birch (R)
Thora portrays Claudia in Kristen’s feature directorial debut, which hits limited US theaters in December before a wider release in JanuaryÂ
Stewart’s 128-minute big-screen adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir also stars Imogen Poots (R), Jim Belushi, and Tom Sturridge
The Chronology of Water film currently has a 6.5/10 IMDb rating and a 94% critic approval rating (out of 34 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes
In 2023, the newlyweds co-founded their production company Nevermind Pictures with Maggie Mclean (R, pictured in 2024), and their next project will be The Wrong Girls
The Chronology of Water film currently has a 6.5/10 IMDb rating and a 94% critic approval rating (out of 34 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.
In 2023, Stewart and Meyer co-founded their production company Nevermind Pictures with Maggie Mclean, and their next project will be The Wrong Girls.
The Love Me star portrays a stoner called Frankie in Dylan’s feature directorial debut, which is a mistaken identity drama for Neon.
Meyer spent ’13 years’ honing the script for The Wrong Girls – which also features Alia Shawkat, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, LaKeith Stanfield and Tony Hale.
Kristen was said to have originally met the platinum-blonde beauty in 2013 on the set of American Ultra.
The bisexual beauty was said to have previously romanced Sara Dinkin, Stella Maxwell, St. Vincent, Soko, Nicholas Hoult, Alicia Cargile, Lane Garrison, and the late Anton Yelchin.
Last month, Variety reported that Stewart will soon fly to Paris to shoot her role as Woody Harrelson’s onscreen daughter Madeleine in Quentin Dupieux’s dark comedy Full Phil for Studiocanal.
The former child star’s other upcoming projects include Panos Cosmatos’ vampire flick Flesh of the Gods and Amazon MGM’s limited series The Challenger about astronaut Sally Ride.
