Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
It doesn’t take much for me to stan a queer celebrity couple, but Kristen Stewart and her wife, Dylan Meyer, are on a different level. Sure, they can both clean up nicely for the red carpet, but they always seem most themselves when they’re slouching around Hollywood in casually coordinated sweats and sexy messy hair. Spiritually, they remind me of Ashley Benson and Cara Delevingne carrying around their sex bench, in the absolute best way.
But it’s not just their couples’ style that works so well: Meyer and Stewart are currently on the road together, promoting their new stoner comedy, The Wrong Girls, and they’re making it all look very easy. Stewart and Alia Shawkat star in the film, which was written and directed by Meyer, and believe it or not, the film—which, like so many Hollywood projects, took over a decade to come to fruition—played an integral role in Stewart and Meyer’s meet-cute.
At the Los Angeles premiere of The Wrong Girls earlier this month, Meyer told the Hollywood Reporter that she sent Stewart the script when they first met. “She was like…‘I want to be in this movie and you will direct this movie and this is what we’re going to do.’ And her confidence really pushed me to get over some of my own imposter syndrome about doing that,” the filmmaker recalled. If your partner isn’t pushing you to pursue your stoner-movie dreams, it’s time to get a new partner!
Stewart and Meyer met in 2019 on the set of the movie American Ultra, becoming engaged in 2021. In 2024, Stewart described her sweet morning writing ritual with her then fiancée in a Rolling Stone profile. “The first three hours, we treasure them. Our brains are just working well at that time,” she said. “When [Meyer] moved into this house, I had no curtains, three forks, and I never drank coffee, and I was like, ‘I don’t sleep.’ She’s like, ‘In the morning, you drink coffee and you work, and you’re alive, and you’re awake, and then at night you close the curtains.’ In retrospect, it was so obvious.” Reforming a fuckboy: it’s possible!
