Emily Blunt: Strong Female Lead Label 'Makes Me Roll My Eyes'
“It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words ‘strong female lead,’”Emily Blunt says. “That makes me roll my eyes. I’m already out. I’m bored. Those roles are written as incredibly stoic..." https://t.co/CvyIRjH8Ou
- Variety (@Variety) November 14, 2022
- 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. It is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video for U.S. subscribers (idk about for the rest of us).
