The actress, who previously spoke about how much she hated making 2019's 'Charlie's Angels', expresses her wary of making a superhero movie, saying it 'sounds like a f**king nightmare.'
- Mar 28, 2024
AceShowbiz - Kristen Stewart is not interested in jumping on the bandwagon and joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Having enjoyed stardom with her role in the successful "Twilight" film franchise, the actress says she will never do a Marvel movie, unless a certain director is involved in the hypothetical project.
The Bella Swan depicter in the vampire movie series, who admitted she's "obsessed" and a "super-duper" fan of "Barbie", said that making a superhero movie "sounds like a f**king nightmare, actually."
"I like big movies because I like people to watch them when I'm in them," she told the "Not Skinny, Not Fat" podcast in an interview published this week. "The system would have to change. ... What ends up happening is this algorithmic, weird experience where you can't feel personal at all about it."
"But maybe the world changes," she added, before naming a director who would change her mind about doing a superhero movie. "I will likely never do a Marvel movie. If Greta Gerwig asked me to do a Marvel movie, then I would do it," she declared.
Speaking of "Barbie", Stewart revealed she got "emotional" watching Ryan Gosling perform "I'm Just Ken" during the Academy Awards on March 10. "Best they've been in years, I feel. Don't you think it was just a good show?" she said. "I was, for some reason, crying and laughing while watching the Ken thing."
She further gushed to host Amanda Hirsch in a video shared to TikTok, "It's emotional, dude, watching Greta watch it. When they did the one cutaway of her and she was just, like, front-row belting and looking at the thing she helped kickstart..."
While Gerwig isn't involved in any Marvel project at the moment, the filmmaker previously revealed she would definitely be open to helming an action or superhero film, as long as the source material and story appeal to her.
"Yes, of course," Gerwig shared. "It would have to be something I had a feeling for and a relationship to. A well-shot, well-executed action movie is just incredible. It's a dance. I've never done anything like that. But even in a small way, working with the stunt coordinator who did fight choreography on Barbie, he was just fascinating. It was so fun to talk to him."
"I think probably every director has a fantasy baseball league in their head of what movies they want to make," the Oscar-nominated screewriter explained. "There's some movies I'd like to make that require a big canvas. At the same time, I've seen so many directors move between bigger movies and smaller movies: Chloe Zhao doing 'Nomadland' and making 'Eternals'. Or Steven Soderbergh, or even my weekend buddy Chris Nolan. He made the 'Dark Knight' trilogy - and they're wonderful - and then made 'The Prestige', which is not a tiny movie, but it is also not the same thing. I want to play in lots of different worlds. That's the goal."
