{"id":1742379,"date":"2022-11-17T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742379"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:18:25","slug":"actress-emily-blunt-bored-of-the-strong-female-lead-worst-thing-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-emily-blunt-bored-of-the-strong-female-lead-worst-thing-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Emily Blunt \u201cBored\u201d of the \u201cStrong Female Lead\u201d: \u201cWorst Thing Ever\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Factress-emily-blunt-bored-of-the-strong-female-lead-worst-thing-ever%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=1742379&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Actress Emily Blunt sent the hardcore feminists into a tailspin on Tuesday when she admitted to being \u201cbored\u201d with the much-ballyhooed \u201cstrong female lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Blunt issued her frank remarks about the woke character descriptor during an interview with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/meet-english-behind-scenes-bbcs-violent-new-western-emily-blunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">T<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/meet-english-behind-scenes-bbcs-violent-new-western-emily-blunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/meet-english-behind-scenes-bbcs-violent-new-western-emily-blunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Telegraph<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0calling it the \u201cworst thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">\u201cIt\u2019s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words \u2018strong female lead,\u2019\u201d Blunt said. \u201cThat makes me roll my eyes. I\u2019m already out. I\u2019m bored. Those roles are written as incredibly stoic, you spend the whole time acting tough and saying tough things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">While Blunt has indeed played a fair amount of impressive heroines throughout her career, they often do not fit into the box of what feminists might consider \u201cstrong.\u201d In <em>Looper<\/em>, for instance, she played a single mom whose love for her troubled son saves him from embracing a path of darkness; in\u00a0<em>A Quiet Place<\/em>, she played a matriarchal mother bear fighting to keep her family together through an alien apocalypse. Her latest character in the Western revenge series <em>The English<\/em>, in which she plays a frontier woman avenging her son\u2019s death, reportedly follows similar tropes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">\u201cShe\u2019s innocent without being naive and that makes her a force to be reckoned with,\u201d Blunt said of her character in <em>The English<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">\u201cI love a character with a secret,\u201d Blunt added. \u201cAnd I loved Cornelia\u2019s buoyancy, her hopefulness, her guilelessness\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17229210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17229210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/junglecruisepremiere1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(L-R) Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson attend the World Premiere Of Disney\u2019s \u201cJungle Cruise\u201d at Disneyland on July 24, 2021 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">Blunt is hardly the first actress to call out this condescending trope, which ultimately reduces female characters to a one-note attitude rather than a flesh-and-blood individual. Speaking with\u00a0<em>The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>in August, actress Tatiana Maslany of <em>She-Hulk<\/em> fame called the trope \u201cfrustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">\u201cIt\u2019s reductive,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2022\/aug\/13\/tatiana-maslany-she-hulk-marvel-mark-ruffalo-orphan-black\">Maslany said.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s just as much a shaving off of all the nuances, and just as much of a trope. It\u2019s a box that nobody fits into. Even the phrase is frustrating. It\u2019s as if we\u2019re supposed to be grateful that we get to be that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Academy Award-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson also previously criticized the prevailing trend in movies of making women act like men.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5vSyjSnwrjF4IdRFUCGOGr?si=GqBfa4fCTOSWSNtARhZvhQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\"><em>CultureBlast<\/em><\/a>\u00a0podcast in 2020, the former <em>Love Actually<\/em> star said that it\u2019s not \u201cgood enough\u201d to simply give a woman a gun and have her act like a man, even going so far as to say that movies should utilize a women\u2019s feminity as a source of her heroism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo all the women screenwriters I talk to, I say, \u2018Well, what\u2019s the story?\u2019 Because it\u2019s not good enough simply to give the women the guns, and then make the women badass, as well,\u201d said Thompson.\u00a0\u201cNow women have to be badass \u2014 if they\u2019re feminine in the way that they used to be, and they\u2019re not badass, then they\u2019re not welcome. Also, they\u2019re not allowed to cry, apparently, anymore, because we\u2019ve just got to be like the men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said that screenwriters and directors need to explore the feminine to find the heroism inherent with it, such as giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I remember thinking, \u2018Well, that\u2019s not what we meant,\u2019\u201d the actress continued. \u201cWhen I got a group of women together in my thirties, and I said, \u2018Okay, what\u2019s the female heroine? Who is that? What does she do?\u2019 Because she hasn\u2019t got the wherewithal to do the Superman, to do the Godfather, that\u2019s not the point. That\u2019s not where our heroism lies. So how do we make it heroic?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Emily Blunt sent the hardcore feminists into a tailspin on Tuesday when she admitted to being \u201cbored\u201d with the much-ballyhooed \u201cstrong female lead.\u201d Blunt issued her frank remarks about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}