She did make one studio tentpole after “Twilight”: 2012’s “Snow White and the Huntsman,” which grossed almost $400 million globally. But when it came time to do the sequel, Universal didn’t invite her back. In retrospect, she’s glad. Last month’s “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” was an origins tale headlined by Chris Hemsworth that tanked at the box office. “I read a few scripts,” Stewart recalls. “None of them were good. None of them were greenlight-able. And I had a meeting with Universal about the places where the story could go. Maybe Chris was more into it. I actually don’t f—ing know.”
She insists that the tabloid coverage of her relationship with Sanders didn’t factor into Universal’s decision-making. “It wasn’t a situation where I got kicked off a movie because I got in trouble,” she says. “We had been in talks months after that about making something work, and it never came together.”