1 / 5

2025 Invision

Kristen Stewart arrives at the 2025 annual Academy Women's Luncheon on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

LOS ANGELES – In a rooftop space filled with Hollywood's most influential figures, actor Kristen Stewart delivered an unflinching speech calling on women in film to “print (their) own currency” and reject the industry's tokenism while celebrating the next generation of female filmmakers.

Stewart, who directed “The Chronology of Water,” an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, began her remarks with some humor, but she quickly turned to gender inequity in Hollywood.

“It’s awkward to talk about inequality for some people,” Stewart said Tuesday at the Academy Women’s Lu

See Full Page