While Twilightwhole would have been over in approximately 30 minutes. “[Edward] was trying to control whether or not she made choices for herself, and I would have broken up with him immediately,” Stewart said of her character’s blood-sucking beau in a recent episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat
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If only Bella had had this sort of foresight and knack for one-liners as a teen! But regardless of some of the character’s more questionable choices (like calling Jacob “biceps” which, even at the time, she thought was “so embarrassing”), Stewart still has a lot of love for her. In response to podcast host Amanda Hirsch’s query of whether or not we “like Bella” anymore, Stewart semi-jokingly responded, “Do we not like her? Woah, woah, woah. You’d better be careful. I don’t know if you can tell who you’re talking to right now.”
This tenderness does make sense; after all, in Stewart’s eyes, Bella is queer. “I don’t think it necessarily started off that way, but I also think that the fact that I was there at all, it was percolating. It’s such a gay movie,” she told Variety
Stewart currently stars in Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding, as a melancholy gym employee whose life is turned around when she starts dating an enigmatic bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian) who moves to town. If you want to watch a corrective where Stewart’s character and her partner are a little too willing to support each other’s objectively bad decisions, the film is in theaters now.