Famous Actress Says She Probably Won’t Live In The United States Much Longer, Cites Trump Policy

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Actress Kristen Stewart said during an interview with the United Kingdom’s The Times that she will “probably not” live in the United States much longer.

Stewart spends time in Los Angeles and New York.

She cited President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies filmed outside of the United States.

Stewart said she “can’t work freely” in America and wants to base her directorial career on films made in Europe, Fox News noted.

Fox News explained further:

Her directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water,” was shot in Latvia as “it would have been impossible to do in the States.”

Stewart added that Trump’s threat of tariffs on movies made outside the country is “terrifying” for the film industry.

“Reality is breaking completely under Trump,” she said. “But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in.”

“But I don’t want to give up completely. I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people,” Stewart said, according to the outlet.

Trump said last year that he would impose a “100% tariff” on movies made outside of the United States.

PEOPLE has more:

Trump, 79, announced tariffs on movies made outside the U.S. in May 2025.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.”

He called the situation a “National Security threat.” “It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump added before concluding, “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

Since then, these efforts have been stalled, but Trump wants to bring them back. “I’m going to be putting tariffs on movies from outside of the country — if they’re made in Canada, if they’re made in all these places, because Los Angeles has lost the movie industry,” Trump said per The New York Post on Jan. 23.

“And so I’m going to put tariffs on and we’re going to be doing bonds, some bonds, some low-interest bonds, for the movie industry. We’ll bring it back.”



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