Kristen Stewart on stars like Sophie Turner not labelling their sexuality
- The 29-year-old actress says she felt a ‘huge responsibility’ to define her sexuality after finding fame in Twilight
- She is glad younger stars are refusing to do so, but thinks contemporary culture is still struggling to define fluid gender and sexuality
Kristen Stewart says she felt a “huge responsibility” to define her sexuality after finding fame in the Twilight movie franchise. But she is glad that today’s young stars don’t have to do so.
The 29-year-old actress says she was “so gay” on Saturday Night Live two years ago. But she sees a shift in culture that has allowed young people – in and outside Hollywood – to accept fluidity in gender and sexuality.
“I felt this huge responsibility, one that I was really genuinely worried about – if I wasn’t able to say one way or the other, then was I sort of forsaking a side?” says Stewart, who also had a long-term relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson.
“The fact that you don’t have to now is so much more truthful,” she says.
The actress stars alongside Laura Dern in J.T. LeRoy, a biopic about a young woman named Savannah Knoop whose sister-in-law Laura Albert created LeRoy as a literary persona. Knoop pretended to be a man in public appearances as the celebrated author, and now identifies as nonbinary.