Sofia Coppola Responds to ‘The Beguiled’ Backlash

[hewontgo]

Sofia Coppola Responds to ‘The Beguiled’ Backlash https://t.co/HSsVP6GObJ #thebeguiled pic.twitter.com/dfJD67aDwC
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) 15 juillet 2017

Coppola has been criticized for not including an African American character in her film.

following up this postShe felt that treating slavery as a side-plot would be insulting

Comments

[sluttyroyals]

What's her excuse for whitewashing Kirsten's character tho?

[headcaseheidi]

she was just staying in her lane, okay!! by not putting poc in her films she's subtextually supporting the idea that more poc filmmakers should exist and be the ones to do so!!!

[helders]

slaves ran away all the time. like, ALL of them literally ran away all the time and left the plantations all white. you guys should read more history, k?

[diabolicalwoman]

In that vulture article I read I thiiiink she said that the character is not a good person/"not someone she'd want to depict a black person as"

[diabolicalwoman]

Oh, yeah, now that I go back that vulture article does only directly quote why she didn't include Matilda/Mattie/Hallie. Wtf. I swear I read an article that said more about Edwina's personality/characterisation.

The op was asking about Kirsten's character tho and Edwina's not enslaved, she's a teacher. (I read she's also a composite of two book characters in the film versions but by keeping the name of the biracial character she should be biracial even if she wasn't in the 1971 version either, right?). I know she didn't want to touch on race at all apparently or maybe she wasn't aware of Edwina's race in the novel but 😬