You can count Kristen Stewart among the Hollywood A-listers who don't seem to enjoy superhero movies.
Over the years, venerated actors and directors such as Jodie Foster, Jennifer Aniston, Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ridley Scott, and more have all shared their disdain for how superhero films have taken over the film industry.
Foster, who is Stewart's mentor, recently stated, "It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases.”
“Hopefully people will be sick of it soon. The good ones — like ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Matrix’ — I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
During a recent appearance on the Not Skinny, Not Fat Podcast, Stewart revealed that she pretty much feels the same as her mentor, stating that making a superhero movie “sounds like a f–king nightmare, actually.”
She also stated, "I will likely never do a Marvel movie,” before going on to reveal that there was one exception. “If Greta Gerwig asked me to do a Marvel movie, then I would do it.”
As for a reason, previously, Stewart revealed that she didn't enjoy her time making 2019 Charlie's Angels, adding that, "I like big movies because I like people to watch them when I’m in them. 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."
Since 2019, Stewart has made much smaller features, including 2021's Spencer, and the upcoming, Love Lies Bleeding.
She'll next be seen in the quirky sci-fi drama, Love Me, opposite Steven Yeun.
That heavily buzzed indie follows a buoy named Me, and a satellite named Iam, who find love after a catastrophe wipes out humanity.
Of the project, Stewart stated, "Steven and I took on very binary roles, which was very surprising with a movie about identity."
However, she admitted that they did often fall back on social relationship norms. "I felt this desperate girl thing so often, and Steven was so pragmatic about everything. I was like, ‘Oh God, biology exists for sure."
The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024, but has not found a distributor yet.