Kristen Stewart was told to stop holding her girlfriend’s hand in public if she wanted more work

"Like what, you can't go outside with who you're with? You can't talk about it in an interview?"

Kristen Stewart said that she was told to stop holding her girlfriend's hand in public to get more work. The actor said that she had been warned that her fluid sexuality was "confusing" and that if she wanted to get bigger roles, she should change the way she acts. She told Harper's Bazaar UK that she wouldn't name the person who told her this, but that she never wanted to work with them again. "I have fully been told, 'If you just like, do yourself a favour, and don't go out holding your girlfriend's hand in public, you might get a Marvel movie'," she said. "Like what, you can't go outside with who you're with? You can't talk about it in an interview?" "I was informed by an old-school mentality, which is - you want to preserve your career and your success and your productivity, and there are people in the world who don't like you, and they don't like that you date girls, and they don't like that you don't identify as a quote unquote 'lesbian', but you also don't identify as a quote unquote 'hetero-sexual'. "And people like to know stuff, so what the f*ck are you?" Stewart, who dated model Stella Maxwell for two years, said that struggling to act a certain way in public "took precedence over protecting my life." "Because in protecting it, I was ruining it," she said. "I think I just wanted to enjoy my life." The actor also opened up about her private relationship with fellow Twilight actor Robert Pattinson. She said that the pair didn't have an example to base themselves off, so they decided to keep the relationship as quiet as possible.   "So much was taken from us that, in trying to control one aspect, we were just like, 'No, we will never talk about it. Never. Because it’s ours.'"