The actress was heavily criticised for her comments, which were actually about gender in Hollywood and not diversity.
Variety have issued an apology to Kristen Stewart after they presented comments made by the actress on gender equality to instead be about diversity in Hollywood. The Twilight star was heavily criticised for the comments, which were in fact about the debate surrounding gender equality and the gender-pay-gap.
Variety have apologised to actress Kristen Stewart.
On their website Variety had published a clip from an interview with Stewart at the Sundance film festival, with a headlining implying her comments were about the current diversity debate ahead of this year’s Oscars.
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The video did not include the question posed to the actress, causing her comments to be misinterpreted. Speaking about gender equality Stewart had said, “Instead of sitting around and complaining about that, do something. Go write something, go do something.”
“And that’s easy to say. Like, f**k, it’s hard to get movies made. It’s a huge luxury. Who gets to just make movies? But that subject is just so prevalently everywhere right now, and it’s boring.” Variety have now uploaded a longer version of the video to the website, which shows the question posed to Stewart by the interviewer.
“Comments made in a videotaped interview Monday with actress Kristen Stewart about gender equality in Hollywood at the Sundance Film Festival were erroneously labeled on Variety.com in a way that suggested she was addressing issues pertaining to diversity. Variety regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion,” Variety said.
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“The error was the result of an edit to the web page in which the video was presented without seeing the specific question Stewart was answering, which pertained to a lack of opportunities for female actors and directors.”
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