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Kristen Stewart says Hollywood’s self-congratulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’
The actor said that making movies by a small number of female film-makers was not cause for celebration. ‘You’re like, OK, cool. You’ve chosen four’
Kristen Stewart has chastised Hollywood’s efforts at gender equality, saying that the industry clapping itself on the back for an embrace of female film-makers “feels phony”. Stewart spoke out about the challenges she has faced trying to finance an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water, which she hopes to direct, and which has been in the works for seven years. “My movie is about incest and periods and a woman violently repossessing her voice and body, and it is, at times, hard to watch … but it’s gonna be a fucking thrill ride,” she said.
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