While Fast and Furious may have made $72 million at the box office this weekend, Michelle Rodriguez who has a “reputation”cough cough for being difficult comes clean to Latina.com about what it’s like for strong women in Hollywood.
“Anytime you’ve got a wild, independent, free-spirited woman, she has to die at the end of the movie,” Rodriguez tells Latina.com, “unless it’s a movie that’s so sci-fi that it can’t be real, like Tomb Raider.”
The actress says she falls squarely into that category. “Me? I die in every film that I’m in this year,” she reveals. “They’re just gonna have to keep on killing me,” she adds, dead serious. “I’ll keep coming back, until they realize what’s hot and make flicks for bitches like me.”
Why don’t they realize what’s hot and makes flicks for women like her?
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She is awesome, for real, but always casted in supporting roles. Someday they should make her the LEAD of a big action film.
I loved her in “Girlfight” and wish that she would be in movies other than action movies.
right on!
and maybe actresses like her will look for scripts written by women, that are to be directed by women. And maybe they’ll work with the budget.
Actresses are awesome and they have more power than they are currently choosing to wield.
Love her fist step – awareness of the problem
and the fact that she is not afraid to go public with it.
Now lets see if she is a problem solver to boot.
(this goes for every feminist of the day)
Loved her in “Girlfight.” :)
I am torn about this. I like her attitude – it’s really refreshing. However, after watching Tomb Raider again (it seems to be one of the movies of the month on one of the TMC channels) her line about Lara Croft bugged me even more than the first time I read it.
I may seem like a broken record, but I find it fascinating that once again another woman is choosing to say that another female depiction is unrealistic. I mean did she even see the film – there is precious little “sci-fi” in either films. I’m assuming she’s talking about the first one. And apart from the killer robots, or the live statues (which is more fantasy than sci-fi), that is almost a straight up action portrayal.
And Lara is a female Bruce Wayne. But people ooze over Batman because unlike the other heroes, he is the people feel they can emulate. All he has is lots of money, dedication, and some emotional trauma. Well, so does Lara. Many people said Batman was something that could possibly happen in real life today. Yet, a female version is soo over the top sci-fi and realistic?
We have to stop putting women in a box…and that includes other women.
thanks.
What she says is absolutely true…I have watched tough female characters in films go from being strong to defeated or too soft or dead by the end. I want to see a woman who is not a cartoon or video game character kick some serious ass and become a leader by the end, hot or not, no matter her age.
I will happily write a role for her. If she has a dream prospect, let me know, I am happy to collaborate. I have an idea for something…
Lisa
Terrific site, btw! Love it!
I was pretty bummed to see how quick she went away in Fast & Furious. And yes, she was great in Girl Fight. We need more diverse movies like that.