Carey Mulligan is done with the tired ;trope of the “strong woman” role in movies. ; In an interview for Elle UK’s November issue, the “Suffragette” actress explained why it’s so problematic to tell an actress she “played another strong woman” in a film. ; ; “You don’t say to men: ‘You played another really strong man,'” she told ;Elle UK. “The idea that women are inherently weak — and we’ve identified the few strong ones to tell stories about — is mad.” ; When asked if she thought the world would be better if women ran it, Mulligan responded with a true feminist answer: “The answer is no. I think it would be a better world …
Carey Mulligan is done with the tired ;trope of the “strong woman” role in movies. ;
In an interview for Elle UK‘s November issue, the “Suffragette” actress explained why it’s so problematic to tell an actress she “played another strong woman” in a film. ; ;
“You don’t say to men: ‘You played another really strong man,'” she told ;Elle UK. “The idea that women are inherently weak — and we’ve identified the few strong ones to tell stories about — is mad.” ;
When asked if she thought the world would be better if women ran it, Mulligan responded with a true feminist answer: “The answer is no. I think it would be a better world if it were run equally — we’re still so far from that.”
Preach. ;
Watch more from the Elle UK interview below. ;
Head over to Elle UK ;to read more of Mulligan’s interview. ; ;
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