![]() Many of Stewart’s fans praised her for refusing to label herself, which is particularly trendy these days, and shooting down reporters on the hunt for a salacious scoop. ![]() Until I decide that I’m starting a foundation or that I have some perspective or opinion that other people should be receiving.I don’t. “I don’t feel like it would be true for me to be like, ‘I’m coming out!’,” she added. ![]() When asked point-blank about her sexuality for a Nylon cover profile in 2015, Stewart responded with: “Google me, I’m not hiding.” Soon enough, reporters for the mainstream press came knocking. Meanwhile, after over a year of tabloids referring to Cargile as Stewart’s “gal pal” and “BFF,” people outside of queer Tumblr fan circles finally started to suspect that these women who lived together, vacationed together, and wore each other’s clothes might have been more than just friends. ![]() (After all the money she made from Twilight, she could certainly afford to.) By her mid-twenties, Stewart was finally being taken seriously as an actor - the kind who picked strange, cerebral roles simply because they interested her. She went from being almost universally derided circa Twilight to the first American actress to win a César Award, for best supporting actress in Olivier Assayas’ 2014 drama Clouds of Sils Maria. As she took roles in indie films like Camp X-Ray, Still Alice, and Anesthesia, critics noticed. In 2012, Stewart starred in Snow White & the Huntsman and the last Twilight movie, after which she avoided big blockbusters. Whenever she vaguely referenced her dating life to reporters, she never mentioned her partner’s gender. “We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book.” So when photographs of Stewart and the video producer Alicia Cargile began popping up on gossip blogs and Tumblr fan pages soon after she and Pattinson broke up in 2013, it wasn’t surprising that Stewart didn’t divulge the relationship to the press. “I was hiding everything that I did because everything personal felt like it was immediately trivialized,” she told Elle UK this past summer. In interview after interview, she avoided bringing Pattinson up at all the constant conflation of her on-screen relationship with her actual one, she felt, commodified her personal life and delegitimized her professionally. ( Catch that Kid, I’m guessing, was a lot more formative for my sexuality than it was for hers.) But for years, Stewart was hesitant to open up about her love life to the press - particularly because she had spent a large chunk of her young adulthood being subjected to the mass hysteria surrounding her relationship with Twilight costar Robert Pattinson. In real life, much to the delight of my preteen self, Kristen Stewart did grow up to date women. ![]() Though I wasn’t fully aware of it at the time, it thrilled me that Maddie wasn’t bound by compulsory heterosexuality and strict gender conformity like most every other female preteen character, then or since: This awkward, gangly tomboy just might have grown up to like girls. Throughout the movie, Kristen Stewart as a rock-climbing and go-cart-driving 12-year-old doesn’t show the remotest romantic interest in her lovesick male friends. Of course, she’s not interested in either of them, instead shamelessly weaponizing their affections (for a noble cause). She craftily gives each boy different halves of the same friendship necklace while claiming to have the other half herself. Maddie’s dad needs money for an experimental surgery, so she takes matters into her own hands, separately recruiting Gus (Max Thieriot) and Austin (Corbin Bleu) by professing her love. In the 2004 kid's action movie directed by Bart Freundlich, which was universally forgotten mere moments after its flop of a release, a girl named Maddie, played by Kristen Stewart, tricks her two best guy friends into helping her rob a bank. When I was in middle school, I had a bad late night habit of ordering Catch That Kid on pay-per-view. ![]()
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