CBS demand about Kristen Stewart ignored by Late Show host Stephen Colbert: ‘I don’t perceive’

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Stephen Colbert has defied a demand made by CBS – the community that airs his present – about his newest celeb visitor, Kristen Stewart.

Hollywood star Stewart appeared on the sequence on Tuesday (12 March) to debate her function in new thriller Love Lies Bleeding, the newest movie from Saint Maud director Rose Glass.

While on the present, dialogue turned to Stewart’s controversial Rolling Stone cowl, which led to criticism from extra conservative commentators upon its launch earlier this 12 months.

Stewart seems on the entrance of the March version of the US music and tradition publication, posing in a weightlifting room together with her hand down a jockstrap she’s sporting.

Launching right into a dialog about the crucial response, Colbert highlighted that CBS, the community that airs Late Show with Stephen Colbert, requested him to not present the journal cowl.

“Now before I show this cover, I just want you to know and the audience to know that I think it’s a perfectly lovely cover,” he mentioned, including: “We were asked by CBS not to show it. They thought it would not be a good idea for us to show this, and I don’t understand why.

Defying the network’s orders, he showed the cover to the audience, stating: “There’s the cover, right there.” He then quipped: “I want to say that you look better in a jockstrap than I ever did.”

Stewart, who mentioned the duvet is “not remotely explicit”, known as the controversy surrounding the duvet “a little ironic”, explaining: “I feel like I’ve seen a lot of male pubic hair on the cover of things. I’ve seen a lot of hands in pants and unbuttoned.

“I think there’s a certain overt acknowledgment of a female sexuality that has its own volition in a way that is annoying for people who are sexist and homophobic.”

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Colbert mentioned: “I’ve certainly seen more revealing covers on Rolling Stone or Sports Illustrated for that matter – I think it also violates public expectations of female sexuality as opposed to how you’re presenting it here.”

Stewart, agreeing with Colbert, replied, “Yes, because female sexuality isn’t supposed to actually want anything but to be had. And that feels like it’s protruding in a way that might be annoying. But f*** you.”

Love Lies Bleeding, which chronicles the connection between a reclusive health club supervisor with a criminal offense household and an formidable bodybuilder, is out within the US now, however might be launched within the UK on 3 May.