Kristen Stewart didn’t hold back. In a raw, unnerving confession, she says Trump’s proposed film tariffs are making it “impossible” to work freely in America. She fled to Latvia to shoot her first feature, fearing a system turning against artists. Now she’s hinting she might not stay in the U.S. at al… Continues…
Kristen Stewart’s decision to shoot her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, in Latvia instead of the United States was more than a creative whim; it was a quiet act of protest. She describes an atmosphere in which Trump’s threatened tariffs on foreign-made films hang like a shadow over every independent project, warping budgets, schedules, and the basic sense of security artists rely on. For Stewart, the danger isn’t just economic but psychological: a creeping fear that expression can be punished by policy.
Splitting her life between Los Angeles and New York, she now speaks openly about a future where her work is rooted in Europe, her films traveling back to American audiences instead of being born on U.S. soil. The old grudge with Trump, once about her private life, has hardened into something larger and more public: a fight over who gets to tell stories, and where they are allowed to be told.
