Because apparently, after all these years, Twilight still has one more plot twist hiding under its extremely damp, grey Pacific Northwest wig.
Kristen Stewart recently floated — okay, joked about, but stay with us — the possibility of revisiting the franchise that made her a household name during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. Asked about her previous comments that she might be open to a Twilight reboot, Stewart admitted she had been “mostly joking”.
But she also made one thing clear: if she were going back to Forks, she wouldn’t want to simply do the whole sparkly vampire thing again. She’d rather find out what happened next. And that’s when her The Wrong Girls co-star Alia Shawkat arrived with the pitch we didn’t know we desperately needed.
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Bella Swan has something to tell you
“Bella would come back and be like ‘I’m gay’,” Shawkat quipped.
Honestly? Roll cameras. Call Catherine Hardwicke. Somebody find Taylor Lautner and tell him to put his shirt back on — the plot has moved on. Stewart burst into laughter as Shawkat continued building their dream sequel, describing it as “hot, modern, fresh”.
The two even jokingly nominated Stewart’s wife, screenwriter Dylan Meyer, to write the thing. And considering Meyer and Stewart have already worked together on The Wrong Girls, this is beginning to sound less like a late-night TV joke and more like a pitch meeting with excellent lesbian representation.
Then Stewart decided Bella needed a little more attitude than the original version. Her imagined comeback line?
“I’m gonna f*** your whole family.”
Bella Swan: no longer confused, no longer pale, no longer spending three business days staring out a window because a man left town.
After delivering the line, Stewart seemed delighted with herself, admitting she’d never actually said it before and adding: “God, it feels good.” And honestly, same.
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Kristen Stewart has been saying Twilight was gay
Before anyone accuses Stewart and Shawkat of turning an innocent heterosexual vampire romance into something it was never meant to be, Stewart would like several words.
In a 2024 interview with Variety, she called Twilight “such a gay movie”. She pointed to its themes of secret desire and “wanting what’s going to destroy you”, describing the franchise as having “a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love”. And when you really think about it, the woman has a point.
A teenager moves to a gloomy town and immediately becomes obsessed with someone beautiful, mysterious and emotionally unavailable. Everyone spends an alarming amount of time staring at each other. Desire is dangerous. Feelings must be hidden. The whole thing is soaked in repression, longing and bad weather.
That’s not a love triangle. That’s a Saturday night at the wrong gay bar.
Forget Edward and Jacob. Bella has options now
The original Twilight saga asked Bella to make one of cinema’s great heterosexual decisions: Team Edward or Team Jacob?
‘team edward or team jacob’ ?
“I don’t give a f**k.” – Kristen Stewart pic.twitter.com/C0OJJmqUjA
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) August 15, 2026
Kristen Stewart’s version appears ready to introduce a third option: neither, babes.
Imagine Bella returning to Forks years later. Edward is still 17 and brooding. Jacob is still taking his shirt off for reasons nobody requested. Meanwhile, Bella has arrived with a leather jacket, a new girlfriend and absolutely no interest in explaining herself to either of them. Suddenly, the franchise has stakes again.
Of course, Stewart isn’t actually announcing a Twilight reboot, and no gay Bella Swan sequel has been confirmed. The whole exchange was a joke between Stewart and Shawkat. But sometimes the best ideas begin as jokes.
Stewart, who played Bella in all five Twilight films between 2008 and 2012, has long been open about the story’s queer undertones. She is now married to Meyer, and the pair recently worked together on The Wrong Girls, Meyer’s directorial debut.
So was Twilight gay enough? Kristen Stewart seems to think it was already pretty close. But if Bella Swan ever comes back, she’s apparently ready to stop subtexting and start texting the girls.