{"id":1717563,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717563"},"modified":"2022-10-31T06:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:33:44","slug":"sigourney-weavers-self-own-is-one-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sigourney-weavers-self-own-is-one-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver\u2019s Self-Own Is One for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsigourney-weavers-self-own-is-one-for-the-ages%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sigourney-weaver-call-Jane-republicans-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sigourney Weaver is defying Hollywood ageism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The industry can be cruel to women over 40, something \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/amy-schumer-gun-fact-check\/\">Inside Amy Schumer<\/a>\u201d famously roasted via her Comedy Central showcase.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Adult language.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver is busier than ever 43 years after her breakthrough role in \u201cAlien.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old stars in \u201cCall Jane,\u201d the industry\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/pro-choice-road-trip-movies-plan-b\/\">pro-choice drama<\/a>. The film focuses on a woman (Elizabeth Banks) seeking an abortion prior to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The actress will also appear, albeit digitally, in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/avatar-sequel-james-cameron-environmental\/\">Avatar: The Way of Water.<\/a>\u201d It\u2019s the belated sequel to James Cameron\u2019s blockbuster 2009 yarn. Plus, she romances Kevin Kline in the recent indie drama \u201cThe Good House\u201d and appears in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/oscar-winner-paul-schrader-elon-musk-twitter-free-speech\/\">Paul Schrader\u2019s<\/a> \u201cMaster Gardener.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/28\/movies\/sigourney-weaver-avatar-call-jane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weaver spoke to the New York Times<\/a> about \u201cCall Jane,\u201d her early days in Hollywood and the political scene. The latter is notable for two reasons. One, she suggests multiple states rejected the \u201cCall Jane\u201d production due to its content.<\/p>\n<p>That seems unlikely given the crush of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/12-movies-about-abortion-1235022140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-abortion movies<\/a> made over the past decade. Plus, any such discrimination would have generated sizable press coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/goober-clown-abortion-media-bias\/\"><strong>RELATED: MEDIA CHEER \u2018SNL\u2019s\u2019 PRO-ABORTION CLOWN SKIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She also shared her view on Republicans. She grew up in a conservative family, she says, but now she can\u2019t understand how Republican actors can ply their trade.<\/p>\n<p>I think as an artist, we tell these stories about self-expression, about the people\u2019s welfare and how vulnerable they are, and I don\u2019t know how you could be a Republican and tell the stories that actors tell. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m wrong, I\u2019m sure there are lots of Republicans that could, but you have to be able to play anyone, which forces you to have compassion for people with other positions and reinforces your conviction that people need freedom.<\/p>\n<p>She suggests Republicans lack compassion for the less fortunate. That may come as a shock since multiple studies show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/conservatives-are-more-giving-than-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives donate far more than their liberal peers<\/a>. And that doesn\u2019t include the countless volunteer hours from Red State types.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s insulting and ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>She also conveniently forgets major conservative stars like Clint Eastwood, whose storytelling chops have earned him five Oscars so far.\u00a0Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/sean-mcnamara-jon-voight-consummate-professional\/\">Jon Voight<\/a>, the Oscar-winning star of \u201cComing Home,\u201d \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/ray-donovan-movie-review\/\">Ray Donovan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She admits she\u2019s wrong about her views before doubling down on them.<\/p>\n<p>Actors, she correctly notes, must have compassion for the people they bring to life on screen. Stars often share how they find the humanity in even the worst characters, like serial killers and pedophiles, to create great art.<\/p>\n<p>Yet she admits to having little of it for conservative Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2018have compassion for people with other positions\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a self-own of epic proportions, but the New York Times interviewer just lets it go.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not alone in her disgust for Republican artists. Ben Affleck once confessed to his unease at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ben-affleck-republicans_n_4413293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watching Republican actors at work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn\u2019t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. That s&#8211;t fogs the mind when you should be paying attention and be swept into the illusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigourney Weaver is defying Hollywood ageism. The industry can be cruel to women over 40, something \u201cInside Amy Schumer\u201d famously roasted via her Comedy Central showcase. Warning: Adult language. 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