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.
all she needs some koolaid in her hair
She still hasn’t apologized for that mediocre “The huntsman: winters war” movie. Although that wolfman remake she starred in with Benecio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving and Anthony Hopkins was pretty watchable.
I’ve never seen this actress in a movie, but she will be in the new movie about Robert Oppenheimer.
Highly recommend “Sicario” , great movie, and “Edge of Time”.
Was it good? I think this is a new one by Christopher Nolan, and she plays his wife.
I once read an article by a woman who said she had watched so many movies, she thought it would be easier for her to beat up a man. Then she got into a fight with one, and she was surprised how it turned out.
Well said.
Very good. Dwight Schultz played Oppenheimer, and Bonnie Bedelia played his wife. Paul Newman was General Groves.
Dear Emily:
This is called “Type Casting”. It is the norm in Hollywood and been so for at least a century.
There are other jobs. But they don’t pay as well. Count your blessings.
“Mitts” were in use from the mid-1700s. You could sew while keeping most of your hand warm. I wore gloves with the fingers cut off as a typist in the 80s!
Me, too. I think we have the DVD: I should watch it again!
She’s an amazing, talented actor. One of my favorite movies with her is Edge of Tomorrow. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a must-see. Very underrated sci-fi alien flick.
For General Groves, I liked Brian Dennehy in “The Manhattan Project” better than the Paul Newman Groves.
We just watched her new show, the Western “The English” a bit hard to follow at times, but worth the watch in the end.
Her Husband John Krasinski (the office / Jack Ryan) is probably a lefty but I have seen a few things to indicate he isn’t a FAR LEFT loon.
I can see that. When Brian Dennehy was good, he was very good.
She played the Full Metal Bitch in Edge of Tomorrow.
She was in “The Devil Wears Prada” with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Stanley Tucci. It was a movie that was out when my kids were in HS, and I often watched things with them.
She is U-G-L-Y.
LOL...sounds like a true story!
Yeah, but on the frontier? When you’re hard-riding and shooting and lassoing and drinking and reloading?
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