Kristen Stewart did not balk when asked for her thoughts on the ongoing saga of Rowan county clerk Kim Davis.

When asked during an interview with the Daily Beast if she had been following the case, Stewart lit up:

Yeah. Oh my god. Did you see her come out of jail? Honestly, it makes me so deeply uncomfortable. I feel really bad for her. Anyone who’s so closed off to things that are so apparent? Imagine what else she’s missing out on in life.

I’m not making any grand statements about her personally, but if something so glaringly obvious, such as this subject…

The interviewer interjected: "...to have that much hate in your heart must be awful."

"That’s why I feel bad for her," Steward continued. "It’s like, 'Oh, buddy, that must suck.' That fear of the unknown cripples people, breeds hate, and it’s just very sad."

The conversation was set in motion by the previous question, in which Stewart was asked about the parallels between her new film, Equals, a story about the denial of love in a future society, and the large segment of the population–"republicans primarily"–who still believe that the LGBT community should be denied the right to love.

Stewart, in a thoughtful display of intellect, offered this:

It’s weird because if you’re overtly emotional about anything, people discredit what thought you might be contributing, because anything overtly emotional can be viewed as a weakness.

It’s interesting what you’re saying about how now we’re trying to suppress emotions or irregularities with drugs and deem people controllable by meds, because I think we’re more in tune and more honest with our emotions now than we have ever been.

You think about your grandparents or their grandparents, and you think about the patriarch of the family never showing emotion—with women, too. As we’ve gotten past that, the meds have upped. It’s bizarre.

The two things don’t really go together.