Kristen Stewart is the latest celebrity to consider leaving the U.S. due to Donald Trump’s presidency.
The Spencer actress spoke candidly in a new interview with The Times about her future in her home country and its current political climate. Kristen also said that filmmaking in the U.S. was becoming a much more difficult endeavour.
Her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, was released last year.
Kristen Stewart says she “can’t work freely” in the US
“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” Kristen said in an interview with The Times published on Monday, January 26.
Kristen shot her first film, The Chronology of Water, in Latvia. In the interview, she said production of the movie would have been “impossible to do in the States.” She went on to say that Trump’s proposed tariffs against the film industry were “terrifying.”
When asked by the interviewer for the British outlet if she would remain a resident of the U.S., Kristen 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,” she added.
Although she said early on in the interview that Trump had broken reality in creating the current political climate, the Oscar-nominated actress remained optimistic.
“But we should take a page out of [Trump’s] book and create the reality we want to live in.”
If Kristen does indeed move out of the U.S., she would join an increasing group of celebrities who ditched the country upon Trump’s re-election in November 2024.
Most famously, former TV host Ellen DeGeneres ditched her home country for the tranquility of the English Cotswolds and blamed Trump for the move. Robin Wright, Courtney Love, and America Ferrera also left to go across the pond because of the President.
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