Kristen Stewart is taking horny on main to a whole new level — namely, to the cover of Rolling Stone. The headline is “Kristen Stewart Uncensored,” befitting of both the photo itself, with the actor posing in a leather vest with one hand in her jockstrap (yes, her jockstrap). “Uncensored” is also an apt description of the profile that accompanies the cover, in which Stewart got candid about everything from the “frat house” she lives in to her complicated relationship with femininity.
Read on for some of the highlights from the interview.
Stewart told the magazine that she previously had “a very fucked-up relationship with sleep,” but is now an early riser thanks to her fianceé Dylan Meyer.
“Me and Dylan are writing something, so the first three hours, we treasure them. Our brains are just working well at that time,” Stewart told Rolling Stone. She added that when Meyer moved in with her, she had “no curtains, three forks, and I never drank coffee, and I was like, ‘I don’t sleep.’” Meyer gave her some sage advice: “In the morning, you drink coffee and you work, and you’re alive, and you’re awake, and then at night you close the curtains.”
“In retrospect, it was so obvious,” Stewart concluded.
The profile gives us a fascinating look into Stewart’s Los Angeles living quarters, which Rolling Stone described as “haphazardly furnished and a little unkempt.” The living room features a “black leather sofa under large metal letters that spell out ‘ASS,’” as well as a wall of books featuring authors like Kathy Acker and Jack Kerouac, and “a sort of game room.” The game room has “an orange-topped pool table, a Playboy pinball machine, a row of metal lockers, and a refrigerator with a large orange biohazard sticker on the door.”
Stewart’s home also features an installation of sorts by street artist Mr. Brainwash, who spraypainted the words “life is beautiful” on one of her walls in red without asking her. In response, she told Rolling Stone “So I know that I do sort of live in a frat house, but that is psychotic.” (The magazine also noted that during the pandemic she spraypainted the word “MAINLY” underneath the slogan.) In short, it sounds like Stewart lives in a Mojo Dojo Casa House that could easily rival Ken’s.
With regards to her role as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding, Stewart told Rolling Stone that it was “really fucking fun to be allowed to have the little, dykey sister be the main protagonist in a movie.”
“That’s never the one that you want to fuck,” she added. “I mean, that’s the one some people do, but not the one that you are prescribed to want to fuck.”
Stewart seems keenly aware of the fact that she has played many such roles that have served as sexual awakenings for countless queer people, and is finally owning that. Later in the profile, Stewart told Rolling Stone that she wanted the cover image to be “hyper-sexualized, left of andro, and flipping the gender script.”
“If I got through the entire Twilight series without ever doing a Rolling Stone cover, it’s because the boys were the sex symbols,” she told the magazine. “Now, I want to do the gayest fucking thing you’ve ever seen in your life. If I could grow a little mustache, if I could grow a fucking happy trail and unbutton my pants, I would. Guys — I’m sorry — but their fucking pubes are shoved in my face constantly, and I’m like, ‘Ummmm, bring it in.’” (To that we say, have you ever heard of a little thing called gender-affirming hormone therapy?)
Stewart has previously spoken about how her role in Love Lies Bleeding was personally relatable for her in a way that she hasn’t explored onscreen before. In the Rolling Stone profile, the actor elaborated on her relationship to her character, Lou, saying that playing the character felt like a return to her “first setting.”
“It is a really weird, kind of moving return to form in some way. Kind of like who you are when you’re 11 — physically, the clothes you choose to wear — before you’ve just been pummeled by male expectation,” she told the magazine.
Stewart was quick to disclaim, though, that she never “felt like I have performed a femininity in order to reap its benefits in a way that felt like a lie.” “I’m very fluid, and I’ve never felt like, ‘Oh, wow, I was doing this lie for a long time in order to get jobs.’ That would be wrong,” she told Rolling Stone, adding that she’s “had a good time playing with all of the tonal qualities.”
However, Stewart also conceded that “there’s so much room for success when you choose the girlie one. There’s no room for this other one,” ostensibly referring to her gender-nonconforming side. Hopefully Love Lies Bleeding changes that for the better.
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