EMILY BLUNT SHARES ABOUT FEMALE CHARACTERS AND THE STRENGTH OF WOMEN

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Entertainment is a uniform fall into line kind of messaging. If there’s one constant we know about entertainment’s messaging, it’s that there’s a suppression of female characters. Or so they say. To combat them, their version of making them strong often looks like male heroes. This is something I disagree with in a large picture way. What’s more, the reason I ponder this is a recent celebrity interview. It’s this that inspires a conversation today on female characters and strength.

Through the years there has been multiple authors to give us strong female characters. There’s Jane Austen who gave us the Dashwood women and Elizabeth Bennet. There’s the spitfire Anne Shirley from L.M. Montgomery. Scarlett O’Hara is an icon to many and then there is an author like J.K. Rowling who wrote memorable women like Hermione Granger. Point being, there are countless female characters that are memorable and though subjective, each one has strength.

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The specific reason this sparked in my mind is because of comments Emily Blunt made. She’s discussing her process for the roles she takes on. For her new role in Amazon Prime’s The English, Blunt has been making the press rounds to promote this project. If you don’t know her from that, we know her for roles like Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria; an overworked assistant in The Devil Wears Prada; and in Disney’s Jungle Cruise, just to name a few. Any of the roles I’ve seen her in are memorable. So, her recent statements about the characters she takes caught my eye.

In this interview with The Telegraph she talks about how she picks roles and the scripts she reads saying that she loves characters ‘with a secret.’ Later on, she not just talks about her The English character Lady Cornelia, she discusses the type of roles that she likes and what makes her roll her eyes. Specifically, she goes on to talk about any script with the description of a “strong female lead” makes her bored. Her quote reads:

“It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words: ‘strong female lead.’ 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. Cornelia is more surprising than that. She’s innocent without being naive, and that makes her a force to be reckoned with. 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.”

I do like what she says here. Women in cinematic stories are being written more and more as “strong,” maybe, but it’s in the image of men. I don’t disagree with the idea that women are strong. They have unique attributes and contrary to culture saying its bad, even those who embrace femininity have distinct strength. All this to say, women are strong in their own fearfully made way which is set apart and unique. It’s doesn’t look the same as men, and this is okay.

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Of course, like so much, strength is subjective. What Blunt means and how I’m viewing this may be two entirely different things. Still, I did enjoy her perspective. I haven’t really thought about female characters being boring in today’s cinema. This said it is rare that I meet a female character that really stays with me in this modern storytelling. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy them while I watch the film, it’s just they’re not that memorable.

Emily Blunt makes excellent points with these comments. Perhaps her process is what helps her to craft this varied group of characters to her credits. Reading this about her just made me think; it’s interesting and something that I realize I do agree with. Make female characters women. They have incredible strength even if that embraces femininity.

What do you love about the Jane Austen women or Anne Shirley? Emily Blunt’s comments? What type of female character do you prefer? What looks like strength to you? Do you agree or disagree with any of this? Comment all the comments. Let’s chat. female characters and strength

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