'The really unusual thing was having another woman in a film that you’re not hating for some completely vague reason,' SusanSarandon says.
which was fabulous. It had things like the number of bullets fired, which was 11 for. They were like, give us a break. This is no comparison. SS: Well, you had women doing things like that back in Greek tragedies. But I think the other problem for people was that we were having fun. That whole thing about “you are what you settle for” was probably as threatening, if not more threatening, when you see someone leaving their house.
GD: Oh, god. Well, if they did, they wouldn’t get what it’s about. That would defeat the purpose. Because it’s supposed to be that we took off, you know?GD: Liberation. I think that might be part of the problem that some people had with it, too—that we’re in charge of our own destiny, and we refuse to relinquish it. And for some people, that’s infuriating.
At the time, how unusual was it to find a role like this—a woman who’s actually fleshed out and complicated?] I didn’t turn down any really good parts. That’s kind of one of the downsides of having been inSS: The really unusual thing was having another woman in a film that you’re not hating for some completely vague reason. SS: There’s the wife, and there’s the younger gal, and they hate each other—that’s been the formula.
, for sure. But it’s unusual. I think the breakthrough has not been in film, but in TV. The soap operas always had good parts for women, but now the long TV version of soap operas has good parts for women.
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