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During the promotion of the new movie "JT Leroy", actress Kristen Stewart confessed that he felt "extremely responsible" to discuss his sexuality, adding that she had the feeling she would "give up one side" of her remarks. (April 30)
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LOS ANGELES – Kristen Stewart said she felt a "huge responsibility" in defining her sexuality after being celebrated in the "Twilight" movie franchise. But she is happy that the young stars of today do not have to do it.

The 29-year-old actress said she was "so gay" at "Saturday Night Live" two years ago. But she sees a change in culture that has allowed young people, in Hollywood as well as outside, to accept the fluidity between the sexes and sexuality.

"I felt this huge responsibility, as a responsibility that really worried me, if I could not say one or the other thing, then I was kind of like give up a team, "said Stewart, who also had a long experience. long-term with Robert Pattinson, co-star of "Twilight".

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Kristen Stewart attends the premiere of Universal Pictures' "J.T. Leroy" at ArcLight Hollywood on April 24, 2019. (Photo: Axelle / Bauer-Griffin, FilmMagic)

"The fact that you do not have to do it now is much more truthful," Stewart said.

The actress plays alongside Laura Dern in "J.T. LeRoy," a biopic about a young woman named Savannah Knoop, whose sister-in-law, Laura Albert, created LeRoy as a literary character. Knoop claimed to be a man at public appearances as a famous author, and now identifies himself as non-binary.

Stewart celebrates this decision with the statements of young Hollywood stars such as Sophie Turner, 23, who refused to label their sexuality.

"If you had to have this conversation with someone like high school, they would probably like to roll their eyes and say," Why are you complicating things so much? "… just do what you want to do," she says. "It's really nice."

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Kristen Stewart attends the premiere of Universal Pictures' "J.T. Leroy" at ArcLight Hollywood on April 24, 2019. (Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer, Getty Images)

Stewart says that contemporary culture is always struggling to define gender and sexuality: "I just have the impression that we do not even have the words to describe the complexities of l & # 39; identity right now. "

Stewart says that she will put this spirit into her feature film debut, an adaptation of the memory of a swimmer turned bisexual-turned-artist named "The Chronology of Water."

"Much of this spirit is completely about finding new languages ​​- finding a new language, and really understanding that your word home, so to speak, is built by you," she said. "And you can also have a million definitions of the word you want, as if they were open to interpretation … So, like words that comfort, because they can really be used as weapons or as more saviors. "

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