Emily Blunt: Strong Female Lead Label 'Makes Me Roll My Eyes'

[trekkiepetrelli]

“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

Comments

[manu19]

Makes sense to me.

"Strong female lead" in Hollywood usually implies = women kicking ass but strong women are also women, raising X children on their own!

[euraylie]

HW only knows how to make women strong in the traditional male sense. And then it also means they don’t have to work to give them any personalities beyond “kickass”.
She’s right; the characters are for the most part boring

[benihime99]

I get what she's saying because a lot of the time the "strong female lead" is basically written for a guy and then they change the character's name to Jane
Like, you don't have to be "one of the boys" to be strong
Let's insert some variety and depth

[xpirate_queenx]

Exactly.

[inandoutofgrace]

Yep, I’d rather see a flawed but compelling female character with dimension beyond just being tough. I already know we’re tough, we’re surviving the patriarchy day by day aren’t we?

ETA case in point the incredible women of Iran!! I live with so much privilege day to day that I genuinely don’t know that I can muster up the courage that they’re displaying if I was faced with similar oppression and threatened with death and rape.

[hellicoptajuuce]

i agree, there was a wave of those movies a few years back. Like if a woman is strong, you can show us you don't have to tell us.

There was also this trope where a strong woman=masculine woman, as if to say for a woman to be strong, she has to lose her femininity.

[winx]

Right? It feels like a backhanded insult, like the ‘one of the guys’ compliment frat bros love to give.
This is something I love about the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies, they’re cheesy as hell but she’s badass and feminine and emotional and funny and sexy in them, she makes Lara a great character because of all of those things combined, not by erasing the ‘feminine’ traits

[doriiansz]

I mean, you can't get more complex than this

[violet_crumble9]

every once in a while i remember this movie and the ~twist and it really cheers me up lmao. wild.

[sarahvma]

he thinks he's a bee