Did she? She said that she didn't want to read 40 year old White men negatively reviewing A Wrinkle in Time because it wasn't made for them.
But did she really say she didn't want White men watching her movie? That doesn't appear to be true.
Anyway, all the controversy will help the movie. People remember seeing the name, but not what all the arguing was about.
During the interview, the Room star also pledged to help more women and people of color enter the film industry, having also “gender and racial parity in the press and wearing mostly female designers” during the film’s global press tour.
So, I spoke to Dr Stacy Smith at the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, who put together a study to confirm that. Moving forward, I decided to make sure my press days were more inclusive. After speaking with you, the film critic Valerie Complex and a few other women of colour, it sounded like across the board they weren’t getting the same opportunities as others. When I talked to the facilities that weren’t providing it, they all had different excuses.’
I think because it’s 2019, and what 2019 is about, really, is intersectional feminism. There’s just no question that we would have to show what it means to be all different kinds of women, that we don’t just have one type. It became a great opportunity, even with things like the love story. [We wanted] to make that big love— that lost love, that love that’s found again—be with [Carol’s] best friend. To show that, that’s incredibly powerful and gripping, and you could go to the ends of the Earth and fight till the end for your best friend. It’s perfect to me and so meaningful. To me, that’s a part of what the meditation of this movie is: It’s female strength, but what is female strength? What are the different ways that can look?