Kristen Stewart promises 'kickass' political film

While promoting her directorial debut in Sundance, Kirsten Stewart promises her next film will be much more political and discusses Donald Trump's obsession with her love life

Feature by The Skinny | 23 Jan 2017

Kristen Stewart was in Park City, Utah at the weekend with her debut short film, Come Swim – complete with soundtrack by Annie Clark, aka St Vincent – but the actor who found world-wide fame with the Twilight franchise was a bit sheepish about its screening.

Stewart describes the film as “about some guy who goes through heartbreak and is super sad about it.” It’s a film of two halves, one half impressionist, the other realist, but given the current political climate in the US, she admits to having mixed feelings about showing the film at this moment and time. “It feels really first-world, white-people, bullshit problems,” she told the Hollywood Reporter, “and I came here quite nervous about it, considering the timing, because people are going to be like, 'That doesn't matter.’”

She was speaking the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration and that was clearly on the 26-year-old filmmaker’s mind. “You don't have to be a politically involved person to be, like, uber-aware of the fact that very basic humanitarian ideas are being so incredibly trampled on.

“My next short is going to be so political,” she says with a wry smile in the video. “People are going to be like, ‘Wow, girl. Get it.’” Later in the interview Stewart says emphatically that “my next movie is going to kick ass.”

“You already have your idea?” asks the Hollywood Reporter. “Yeah yeah, totally. Gun control,” says Stewart.

It sounds like a project that might bring her to the attention of the US’s newly elected commander-in-chief, but speaking in another Sundance interview with Variety she explains she’s pissed off the new President before. "He was mad at me a couple of years ago, really obsessed with me a couple of years ago, which is fucking crazy," Stewart told Variety, referencing to the interest Trump expressed in Stewart’s personal life back in 2012. "I can't even understand it. It's such a far-out concept that I don't want to believe that actually is happening. It's insane."

She’s referring to the bizarre tweets the future president sent when Stewart was captured on camera in a romantic clinch with her Snow White and the Huntsman director – she was in a relationship with her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson at the time. Stewart publicly apologised to her boyfriend, but it wasn’t enough for The Donald, who tweeted out in support of Pattison, urging him to end his relationship with her.

"Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart," wrote Trump on 19 Oct 2012. "She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!"

In a subsequent tweet, Trump wrote, "She will cheat again – 100 certain – am I ever wrong?”

His final tweet on the subject went “Everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart. In a couple of years, he will thank me. Be smart, Robert.”

Trump clearly has a soft spot for R-Patz – and who can blame him. We look forward to Stewart’s “kickass” gun control film getting similarly under his skin.

Stewart's new feature film Personal Shopper screens at Glasgow Film Festival on 18 & 19 Feb

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