Kristen Stewart has spoken out against Donald Trump’s proposed tariff policies targeting the film industry, saying the current political climate has made it difficult for her to “work freely” in the United States.The 35-year-old actress, who rose to global fame as Bella Swan in The Twilight saga, has since focused on independent films and is preparing for the release of her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, this February. Speaking to The Times, Stewart said she filmed the project in Latvia because producing it in the U.S. would have been “impossible.”
“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” she said, criticizing his threat to impose steep tariffs on movies made outside the U.S. Stewart described the proposal as “terrifying,” adding that it creates instability for filmmakers and discourages creative freedom. Trump previously claimed the American film industry was “dying a very fast death” and argued that foreign productions were harming domestic movie-making.
