• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    1 month ago

    She was widely ridiculed for the quote with Alien as a notable example.

    I think the rest of the quote was pretty accurate. She was speaking to gender bias in Hollywood and saying she was happy to be an exception, which I think was fine. But because she said something boneheadedly wrong to tee up the point, that’s all anyone really remembers about it.

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      You can be wrong but still hold a valid point broadly.

      If you say “franchises” instead of movies and limit it to movies where the woman is the STAR and not part of a duo (Terminator and Terminator 2) and goes for 3 or more movies the only other example I can think of off the top of my head is Alien.

      Theres a lot of female starred standalone movies, and a decent number of duos, sometimes with sequels. But once you start looking beyond that it gets REALLY skinny really fast.