Kristen Stewart called making movies in modern Hollywood a 'capitalist hell' while living a lavish lifestyle bought by her blockbuster earnings. 'I think having it be so impossible for people to tell stories, and having it be such an exclusive and rarified novel position to be in to find yourself doing so, is capitalist hell,' Stewart told the New York Times ' The Interview. Stewart shot to stardom thanks to the apparent 'capitalist hell' that is Hollywood early in her career. She earned the role of Bella Swan in the Twilight franchise when she was just 17 years old.

The now 35-year old told the interviewer about how starring in a franchise early in her career afforded her a financial comfortability that she may not have otherwise had. Regardless, the actress railed against expensive, blockbuster films. 'I think we need to figure out a way to make it easier to speak to each other in cinematic terms,' she told interviewer David Marchese. 'It’s too hard to make movies right now that aren’t blockbustery, whatever, proven equations.'

According to Parade , Stewart was paid $2 million for the first Twilight blockbuster. The numbers only grew from there. By Breaking Dawn parts one and two she was pocketing $25 million per movie. Box Office Mojo reported that Twilight was a box office blockbuster by true definition. The combined gross earnings of all five films was more than $1.2 billion. That hefty financial cushion from her teen years allowed her to purchase several multi-million dollar properties including a $6 million mansion in Los Feliz, California.

The spectacular Mediterranean villa boasted four bedrooms and five bathrooms across 4,900-square feet. Stewart bought the home in 2021. She is also understood to have spent her hard-earned Twilight coin on a New York City penthouse and a Malibu beachfront property. The anti-capitalist actress's net worth sits as a whopping $70 million, per Celebrity Net Worth.

Despite heavily benefitting from Hollywood's capitalistic system she accused it of hating women and marginalized voices and being racist. Stewart is promoting her directorial debut for her film The Chronology of Water , which will release on December 5. The actress claimed that she pursued the adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir for eight years before debuting it at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Stewart told the New York Times that actually making a movie in modern Hollywood is frustratingly difficult, especially for women.

'Some of the terms and some of the rules and some of the structures we have set up have created unbelievable barriers for artists,' she said. 'We need to figure out a way to make it easier to speak to each other in cinematic terms,' she continued. Stewart didn't offer a concrete solution, but said the for her next movie, she wanted it to make a major splash. 'The next movie I wanna make: I want to do it for nothing,' she said. 'I want to make not a dollar, I want it to be a smash hit'