Kristen Stewart is looking to potentially move out of the United States amid Donald Trump‘s second term in the White House.
The Oscar-nominated actress and director, who currently lives in Los Angeles and New York, was asked during an interview with The Times of London if she thinks she will stay in America.
“Probably not,” she responded. “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.”
The Twilight alum added, “Reality is breaking completely under Trump. But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.”
If Stewart does make the move overseas with her wife, screenwriter Dylan Meyer, she would join a list of other celebrities who have left America amid Trump’s presidency and the current tense political climate, including Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell and James Cameron.
Stewart, who has previously been outspoken about Trump, was slammed on social media more than a decade ago, years before he ran for president. In 2012, Trump took to then-Twitter to weigh in on speculation that Stewart and Robert Pattinson had reconciled after a cheating scandal and public breakup, telling the actor that he shouldn’t take the Love Lies Bleeding star back.
During her chat with The Times of London, Stewart also reacted to the president’s ongoing threats of tariffs on films made outside the U.S. The Spencer actress called them “terrifying” for the industry, adding that she shot her feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, in Latvia because “it would have been impossible to do in the States.”
The film, based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, follows Lidia’s chaotic journey from an abusive childhood, as she escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships and addiction before finding her voice through writing.
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