Nope, your eyes don’t deceive you: Kristen Stewart actually said she wants to play a gay superhero.
She addressed the topic at a press junket at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend, where the queer actress (and soon-to-be Charlie’s Angels star) was promoting her new film Seberg. As NewNowNext reported last week, Stewart had told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. that a Hollywood exec once advised her “not to hold her girlfriend’s hand” in public if she wanted a role in a Marvel movie.
Of course, K-Stew ignored that advice, and her ambiguous queerness—she doesn’t identify as lesbian or biseuxal, choosing instead to forgo labels—has become a huge part of her appeal. When the interview came up at a TIFF panel she was on with her Seberg co-star Anthony Mackie—a.k.a. the Falcon from Marvel’s 2014 flick Captain America: The Winter Soldier—she clarified that she cited Marvel because it’s “just a big conglomerate-y type [brand],” Variety reports.
“I’m sure they would love to hire the gay kids to be superheroes,” she joked, laughing alongside Mackie.
When asked which superhero Stewart should play, Mackie paused. “That’s a very good question,” he replied.
Stewart interjected, “A gay one!”
Actress Kristen Stewart "should be the gay female Falcon Captain America" in the MCU, says Falcon-actor @AnthonyMackie! https://t.co/yPOsbzLwXh pic.twitter.com/2Pz1SXNU3O
— MCU – The Direct (@MCU_Direct) September 8, 2019
Obviously. Mackie went along with the joke, telling reporters that “it’s been a really wonderful, eye-opening experience to where I’ve been able to work with many”—he shot a look at Stewart—”gay kids.”
Marvel—are you listening?! Give Kristen Stewart the people what they want already! If the out actress is even half as psyched to play a queer superhero as Ruby Rose is to depict Batwoman for The CW, then we’re in for a treat. And hey, as one clever person on Twitter noted, if Stewart is too gay for Marvel, she’d also make a stellar superhero debut as D.C. Comics’ Catwoman.