No one should expect Kristen Stewart to appear in a Marvel movie anytime soon, as the actress has said the process sounds like “a f**king nightmare.”
“I will likely never do a Marvel movie … it sounds like a f**king nightmare, actually,” Stewart said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast (via Variety).
Stewart went on to say she has some conditions that could change her mind. If Barbie director Greta Gerwig asked her to be in a Marvel movie, “then I would do it,” she said. Stewart also mentioned how she might consider it, but only under the pretense that “the system would have to change.”
“You would have to put so much money and so much trust into one person … and it doesn’t happen,” she said. “And so therefore what ends up happening is this algorithmic, weird experience where you can’t feel personal at all about it. So likely not. But maybe the world changes, that’s what I’m saying.”
Stewart said she has nothing against big movies, though, saying she enjoys making these “because I like people to watch them when I’m in them.” She starred in a massive franchise with the Twilight series opposite Robert Pattinson from 2008-2012. More recently, though, Stewart has opted to make smaller films, including her newest, Love Lies Bleeding. Stewart received an Academy Award nomination for playing Princess Diana in the movie Spencer.
Before this, Ray Winstone, who played a villain in the MCU movie Black Widow, said making Marvel movies can be “soul-destroying” and that he considered quitting the project. Dakota Johnson, who starred in Madame Web, recently shared her opinions on superhero filmmaking, too, saying she is unlikely to ever make another superhero film again.
“It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made–and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out–decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee,” she said. “Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms.”
Marvel owner Disney is changing things up with regards to the release schedule for its Marvel movies. In years past, Marvel would release multiple new films per year, but in 2024, Marvel has just one new movie coming–Deadpool and Wolverine. This is part of Disney’s wider strategy to release fewer, better movies.
