Kristen Stewart hits out at billionaires: “So sick of the system”
While in attendance at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart has lashed out at the Hollywood system, delivering a stern critique of how the film industry crushes original creativity and only serves billionaires.
In a new interview with Variety, while reflecting on her involvement in the French absurdist comedy drama film on display at the festival, Full Phil, the actor and director shared her thoughts on the current state of the industry.
“I’m just so sick of the rules, and I’m so sick of the system,” Stewart began. “It is not designed for artists to express themselves. We’re just really under the thumb of different priorities that don’t align with real dream-making.
The Café Society star was aware of “waxing poetically” and rather insisted she meant “literally, I just don’t think that it’s possible to create sort of radical, vital work under capitalistic parameters.”
Especially, she outlined, because “most of the people in charge are a bunch of bros that have come up under a bunch of other bros and those people don’t really identify with the type of things that I personally want to say, that the people I align with want to say.”
Stewart praised the “three movies that go to Cannes and do well,” and end up being outwardly appreciated by the academy, but admonished that this is “like, totally not enough.”
Rather, she shared, “We need to make more work. There needs to be more work, more output, more connection and less fear and less fucking bureaucracy and also less making billionaires more fucking billionaires.”
The issue is having an adverse effect on her mental health: “It’s driving me insane. We spend so much money, we just like hemorrhage money making stuff in a system that honestly is not designed for us.”
After revealing that it’s impossible to shoot in LA despite being “where our fucking entire business was born,” Stewart concluded, “There’s no way to play the game anymore.”
She has been outspoken against the man at the top before, sharing previously: “[Donald Trump’s] shadow is bleak and very dark … we should expect the worst and fight for the best.”
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