Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
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I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.
I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
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