{"id":2192527,"date":"2025-12-09T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2192527"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:35:06","slug":"kristen-stewart-claims-racist-entertainment-industry-hates-women-and-marginalized-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kristen-stewart-claims-racist-entertainment-industry-hates-women-and-marginalized-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart claims &#8216;racist&#8217; entertainment industry &#8216;hates women&#8217; and &#8216;marginalized voices&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Actress <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/16\/entertainment\/kristen-stewart-wants-cannes-directorial-debut-to-crash-and-burn\/\">Kristen Stewart<\/a> said the\u00a0entertainment industry\u00a0is a \u201ccapitalist hell\u201d during an interview on Saturday, and said it hated women and \u201cmarginalized voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a pivotal nexus, because I think we\u2019re ready for a full system break. Do you know what I mean? I mean that across the board and also specific to the world that I live in, which is very exclusively the entertainment industry,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart spoke to The New York Times\u2019\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YY5tIJpH0YE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Interview,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and said the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/12\/business\/disney-makes-u-turn-on-racially-tied-warnings-for-classic-films-after-trumps-dei-crackdown\/\">entertainment industry was racist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to start sort of stealing our movies. I\u2019m so appreciative of every union. Trust me, we would not survive without them. But some of the terms and some of the rules and some of the structures we\u2019ve set up have created unbelievable barriers for artists to express themselves,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>She argued the industry needed a workaround.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think having it be so impossible for people to tell stories, and having it be such an exclusive and rarified novel position to be in to find yourself doing so, is capitalist hell, and it hates women, and it hates marginalized voices, and it\u2019s racist. I think we need to figure out a way to make it easier to speak to each other in cinematic terms. It\u2019s too hard to make movies right now that aren\u2019t blockbustery, whatever, proven equations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"37881133\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.27521793;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37881133\" width=\"752\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kristen Stewart attending the Gotham Film Awards.\" class=\"wp-image-37881133\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=231,181&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=322,253&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=562,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 562w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=76,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=102,80&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 102w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=1200,941&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=74,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 74w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=199,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 199w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=50,39&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-35th-gotham-116566716.jpg?resize=150,118&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\"\/><figcaption>Actress Kristen Stewart said the\u00a0entertainment industry\u00a0is a \u201ccapitalist hell\u201d during an interview on Saturday, and said it hated women and \u201cmarginalized voices.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said she wasn\u2019t sure what it meant, but said she hoped that the next movie she makes would be a smash hit, and she didn\u2019t want to make a dollar on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just so difficult to make movies, it just doesn\u2019t need to be. I\u2019m just trying to think of some sort of weird, like Marxist, Communist-like, situation that other people can definitely think, of course this psycho is saying that, but I think it\u2019s possible, especially in these kind of narrow and exclusive environments. I\u2019m not talking about the world at large, but for us, the system has barred people and made it too difficult to be honest,\u201d Stewart argued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"37881125\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.35989376;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37881125\" width=\"802\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kristen Stewart speaking at the SFFILM Awards Night at Fort Mason Center.\" class=\"wp-image-37881125\" 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=231,170&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=322,237&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=82,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 82w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=109,80&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 109w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=1200,882&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=79,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 79w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=212,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 212w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=50,37&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/kristen-stewart-attends-sffilm-awards-117026261.jpg?resize=150,110&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cIt\u2019s just so difficult to make movies, it just doesn\u2019t need to be,\u201d Stewart said. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During an interview in May, Stewart\u00a0called out industry power\u00a0players, highlighting the still limited opportunities for a handful of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/29\/lifestyle\/reviews-of-movies-with-mostly-female-casts-have-much-higher-levels-of-sexism-new-study-reveals\/\">female filmmakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[There\u2019s a]\u00a0thinking that we can check these little boxes, and then do away with the patriarchy, and how we\u2019re all made of it,\u201d the actress told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s easy for them to be like, \u2018Look what we\u2019re doing. We\u2019re making Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s movie! We\u2019re making\u00a0Margot Robbie\u2019s movie!\u2019 And you\u2019re like, \u2018OK, cool. You\u2019ve chosen four.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Kristen Stewart said the\u00a0entertainment industry\u00a0is a \u201ccapitalist hell\u201d during an interview on Saturday, and said it hated women and \u201cmarginalized voices.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re in a pivotal nexus, because I think we\u2019re ready for a full system break. Do you know what I mean? 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