Don't call her Angel: Kristen Stewart hated filming Charlies Angels

[a_files06]

Kristen Stewart says her #CharliesAngels remake "was a good idea at the time," but "I hated making that movie. Honestly, the three…you can’t touch [that]. Cameron, Lucy and Drew…I love that movie! If that says anything." https://t.co/IySYgTclZK
- Variety (@Variety) January 11, 2024
-KStew starred in a remivial (did I just make that up? yes. Not yet

Comments

[xdecadentx]

Elizabeth Banks would go on to reveal that she was disappointed in the films marketing stating that it was marketed solely towards females and the media made it out to be a feminist manifesto.

Most women led films seem to be marketed as feminist manifesto films atm which is annoying. Obviously feminism is important but I think you can get it into a film without clubbing people over the head with it. I think that's something books do at the moment better than movies.

A lot of women want to watch fun films with women a lot of the time.

[alwayspolaris]

I think there's too much "tell" instead of "show" with feminism in media lately. It feels like they're lecturing the audience, and the audience is usually on their side. Like the original movies you can tell they're taking advantage of the fact that their looks will make people underestimate them and they're having fun with that, they don't have to say it.

Though those original movies are very much objectifying the angels and my feminist brain is like "hey wait..." while my lesbian brain is just like "Lucy Liu as a dominatrix, yes please". I'm literally over here looking up clips of the pink panther dance scene from the sequel as I type this lol. So conflicted!

[xdecadentx]

Your point about lecturing the audience is well made. I feel like having moments that show microaggressions and women bossing the reaction are more fun than having a woman lecturing someone about feminism.

[alwayspolaris]

Yeah one of my favorite feminist films is 9 to 5 and I love that it shows no amount of lecturing or complaining fixes the situation with the boss. Sometimes you just have to get a guy out of the way (by getting high and kidnapping him) to fix things in his absence lol.

There is a time for just surviving and there is a time for action and very few films get that just right. Instead a lot of them now just default to lecturing which works in the real world about as well as it makes for a watchable film.

[a_files06]

When I rewatch the 2 movies I just remember it's also something that the 3 of them enjoyed filming with Drew producing the films herself. Probably one of the rare times where the actresses had more of the power to change things that they didnt feel comfortable doing.

[alwayspolaris]

Yeah the friendships (fictional and real life) in those movies are really what make the feminist statement for me, and why I don't feel bad watching them do all those somewhat objectifying scenes because they were clearly having a great time with it and I'm glad they had control over it. I also love that they had as a villain in the 2nd one a woman who sold out her sisters for cash and power, a very good point to make against girlboss feminism lol.

[nemophilist]

Yeah, especially when you get shallow sound bites that are so on the nose it doesn't work at all - like Endgame's 'Women assemble' scene or X-Men's 'X-women' like shushhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ugh.

[alwayspolaris]

Seriously, like let's not pretend both series haven't been shafting their female characters for all the rest of the movies. X-men especially should know better. But what do we really expect from a bunch of superhero movies made as propaganda for the military-industrial complex (an inherently patriarchal system)?

[nemophilist]

I can never watch XMA with a straight face because you've got Magneto and Xavier literally covered from chin to toe in armour and then you've got the girls in leather straps and a whole bunch of skin showing in places no warrior would ever expose in war because THAT'S STUPID. It makes me so mad every time that they did that with the wardrobe choice. At least in XMFC the girls mostly matched the boys. But it gets really egregious at times.