Kristen Stewart says she’ll likely leave US after Trump’s ‘terrifying’ threats
Kristen Stewart will likely leave US because of Donald Trump’s ‘terrifying’ threats. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/Chad Salvador/Fairchild Archive via Getty Images)
Kristen Stewart will likely leave US because of Donald Trump's 'terrifying' threats. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/Chad Salvador/Fairchild Archive via Getty Images)
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has said she would consider leaving the US because of Donald Trump’s “terrifying” threats to the film industry.
Stewart, who recently said she would be drawn to the idea of remaking Twilight with a “huge budget and a bunch of love and support”, has revealed that she is unlikely to stay living in the US if Trump follows through with his threats.
In an interview with The Times, about her direction debut, The Chronology of Water – a biographical drama that follows Olympic hopeful Lidia Yuknavitch who suffered a traumatic childhood – Stewart said the film, which was shot in Latvia, “would have been impossible to do in the States”.
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The actress, who is bisexual and got married to screenwriter Dylan Meyer in 2025, criticised Trump’s “terrifying” threats to impose a 100 per cent tariff on films made outside of the US.
She added: “Reality is breaking completely under Trump. But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.”
‘I can’t work freely there’
Asked if she would remain in the US, she responded: “Probably not. I can’t work freely there. But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people.”
After blowing up with her portrayal of Bella Swan alongside Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, Stewart went on to star in films including Snow White and the Huntsman, queer crime drama Love Lies Bleeding, and Spencer, for which she received an Oscar nomination.
The Chronology of Water, which stars Imogen Poots as writer and teacher Lidia Yuknavitch, marks Stewart’s feature film directorial debut. The gripping, visceral movie is an adaptation of Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name, detailing her abusive childhood, her dreams of swimming stardom, her drug and alcohol abuse, and the exploration of her queer identity.
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