Posted on 11/20/2022 4:06:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Don’t mention the strong female character descriptor to Emily Blunt. During a recent interview with The Telegraph (via IndieWire), the actor rejected the archetype and said she’s “bored” of getting scripts where her character is labeled a “strong female lead.”
“It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words ‘strong female lead,’” Blunt said. “That makes me roll my eyes. I’m already out. I’m bored. Those roles are written as incredibly stoic, you spend the whole time acting tough and saying tough things.”
Blunt said that her latest character, Cornelia on the western revenge series “The English,” is far “more surprising” than what the simplified “strong female lead” label describes. “She’s innocent without being naive and that makes her a force to be reckoned with,” the actor added.
“The English” stars Blunt as a frontier woman hellbent on avenging the death of her son. Cornelia partners with an indigenous farmer named Eli (Chaske Spencer), who is also on a mission of revenge in order to reclaim his land.
“I love a character with a secret,” Blunt said. “And I loved Cornelia’s buoyancy, her hopefulness, her guilelessness… She startles Eli out of his silence and their differences become irrelevant because they need each other to survive. I thought that was very cool.”
Blunt joins a growing list of female actors who have spoken out against the “strong female lead” label. “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” actor Tatiana Maslany told The Guardian in August that it’s “frustrating” for roles to be reduced to that one “strong” trait.
“It’s reductive,” Maslany added. “It’s just as much a shaving off of all the nuances, and just as much of a trope. It’s a box that nobody fits into. Even the phrase is frustrating. It’s as if we’re supposed to be grateful that we get to be that.”
“The English” is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video for U.S. subscribers.
When you have a face like that, Hetero romance is kind of out of the question.
She’s not a bad actress. She was ok in Loopers.
One thing she needs to understand, that Dwayne Johnson has embraced, is that you get type-casted for a reason and you’re trying to be a Robert Downey Jr, who has a very wide range, won’t work most of the time.
When you play against type, you risk crashing and burning and being stuck in Indie films for the rest of your life.
> “It’s the worst thing ever...” <
If Ms. Blunt really feels that way, then she should get out of acting and become a waitress or a nurse or a plumber.
Translation: Injun and his squaw maneuver a real estate deal for rights to the site of a future casino.
She was Mary Poppins in the recent movie.
She was the “strong female lead” in the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow”. The movie was good, but her part wasn’t.
Woke script writers have destroyed good story telling, character development, and much of anything to do with entertainment these days. Especially when it comes to “strong female characters” in recent years. They are infallible, stronger, smarter than anyman that has come before they. They bypass any character development, and any sense of the “heroes journey”. (Dont get me started on the 115 pound model waifs kicking the bejesus out of teams jacked 6 foot 4, 230 pound military trained assassins). I would recommend Critical Drinker on Youtube and others associated with him, like Its a Gundam, for more commentary.
So there is no forgiveness in some of the people here. It is difficult in Hollywood to go against the narrative. She is married to the guy from the office and their “QUIET” movies are great. She is just voicing a thought. I don’t see the need for this kind of ire.
Emily B. got into a little hot water back in 2015.
She was on a late night talk show and joked:
I became an American citizen recently, and that night, we watched the Republican presidential debate and I thought, “This was a terrible mistake. What have I done?”
About becoming a citizen she said; “I’m not entirely thrilled about it. I had to renounce my Queen. I had to renounce her in that room but I don’t actually technically renounce her. They were like ‘just say it, you don’t have to mean it, but just say it!”
She later apologized for any ‘who had taken offense’.
Critical Drinker is really good.
“Fat Man and Little Boy” was the movie about Oppenheimer.
I love Critical Drinker. Another good one is The Little Platoon.
“Strong female lead role”
I watched the 1883 series and the pretty young female leading star was “strong” beyond anything a female could do. It was almost always preposterously silly and often downright stupid. I get so tired of watching shows with impossibly “strong” women, especially shows that completely rewrite and whitewash history.
She had “it” when she was younger. May still.
What’s with the goofy no-fingertips gloves people are wearing in westerns these days? It’s another stupid 21st century invention grafted onto 19th century characters.
I presume it’s so those 1880ish characters didn’t have to take their gloves off to use their cell phones.
Who ?
i truly hate these hollywood scum
But that is what they have wanted for 20 years the destruction of toxic macho stereotypes, the patriarchy and hegemony!
I loved that movie.
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