Stephen Colbert's "Censored" Interview With Kristen Stewart Featured A Moment CBS Wanted Banned But Still Made It To Air

Summary

• Stephen Colbert pushed boundaries by showing Kristen Stewart's censored Rolling Stone cover on his show against CBS's wishes.
• Kristen Stewart boldly responded to haters, criticizing sexist and homophobic responses to female sexuality in media.
• Fans sided with Stewart, praising her growth and Colbert's thoughtful approach to the interview, while criticizing Donald Trump's behavior.

We've seen this in the past, both guests and Stephen Colbert calling out CBS. Aziz Ansari did so while on the show, taking a shot at CBS for their lack of diversity.

In this case, Stephen Colbert took a jab at CBS for being sensitive about a Rolling Stone cover featuring Kristen Stewart. We'll take a closer look at the cover, and why Stephen still decided to show it. In addition, we're going to reveal Stewart's thoughts on the hate she received, and what part of the interview was censored by CBS.

We're going to conclude by taking a closer look at what the fans had to say about the recent interview.

Stephen Colbert Revealed CBS Didn't Want To Show Kristen Stewart's Rolling Stone Cover

Stephen Colbert was thrilled to have Kristen Stewart as a guest on The Late Show, especially given how rare her appearances on talk shows have been in the recent years. The two had much to discuss during their chat, and that included Stewart's film, Love Lies Bleeding. However, Colbert decided to start the interview off in a different direction, asking the actress how she was feeling in general.

The interview would take a turn after Colbert would pull out Kristen Stewart's Rolling Stone cover. Before showing the magazine, the host admitted he was discouraged about doing so by the network, who found the cover to be controversial.

Colbert said, “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 said. “We were asked by CBS not to show it. They thought that would be not a good idea for us to show this, and I don’t know understand why. Because there’s the cover, right there."

Colbert continues, “I want to say that you look better in a jockstrap than I ever did."

The moment caused quite a stir, and Stewart had a lot to say in return.

Kristen Stewart Fired Back At The Hate For Her Rolling Stone Cover, And Was Censored For Dropping An F-Bomb

Kristen Stewart had quite the response for "haters." In fact, she even dropped a "f*** you" to all the haters, which was censored by CBS.

From Stewart's point of view, she was treated differently because of her sexuality.

“Well, it’s a little ironic because 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.”

Colbert adds, “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 then got censored for her final statement, "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.” To which she added, "But I never will."

It made for quite an interview and, as expected, fans had a lot to say.

Fans Took Kristen Stewart's Side In The Comments Section And Blamed Donald Trump For Her Reception

Fans were full of comments and, for the most part, Stewart received a lot of support. Stewart also touched on Donald Trump during the interview, as she was asked to read a past statement in which she bashed the former President. According to fans, Donald's behavior towards the actress was very problematic years ago.

"Yeah, it was so bizarre when Trump tweeted about her not once, but like a half dozen times. The man got so weird about it. He doesn't know her, never met her, but he felt he needed to voice his multiple opinions about something that had nothing to do with him? Total creep."

Other fans had a lot of praise for Stewart and the magazine cover.

"It seems so odd that in America everyone and everything gets so over sexualised but at the same time people are so afraid of other people's sexuality."

"Man she's come a long way from the Twilight days. She's comfortable in her own skin and it shows!"

Stephen Colbert was also praised for the interview, ensuring that his guest was comfortable at the start of their chat.

"Gotta respect how Stephen knows or understands that she is an enormous introvert and full of social anxiety in these shows and try to calm her by opening with let's drop this and interact with each other, and asks her how everything goes with a natural conversational tone and not a talk show style hyped up tone. That is very thoughtful and clever and you can see it eases her more."

Here's to hoping Stewart returns to the show at some point down the line.