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Teaser Watch: Julie Taymor, Julianne Moore, & Alicia Vikander Celebrate Gloria Steinem in “The Glorias”

"The Glorias"

“I want to write about the women’s movement,” says Gloria Steinem in a new teaser for “The Glorias.” The feminist icon’s journalism and activism played — and continues to play — an integral role in that world-shaping movement. Julie Taymor’s nontraditional biopic sees Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, and Ryan Keira Armstrong playing Steinem during different chapters of her life, from “her time as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond,” the pic’s synopsis details.

The spot shows Steinem prepping for the debut of Ms. “All the magazine people said don’t do a lesbian story in the first issue, so I feel like we need to do a lesbian story,” she explains. Her fight for equality is, of course, met with a considerable amount of anger and derision. “Gloria Steinem should rot in hell,” we hear one woman say. A man warns her not to “insert herself with those crazy women,” referring to other feminists.

The Sundance pic’s teaser also features other major players in the women’s movement, including Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Janelle Monáe), Flo Kennedy (Lorraine Toussaint), Bella Abzug (Bette Midler), Dolores Huerta (Monica Sanchez), and Wilma Mankiller (Kimberly Guerrero). “Very few jobs actually require a penis or a vagina,” Kennedy tells an audience from atop a stage.

Taymor’s other films include “Frida,” “Across the Universe,” and “The Tempest,” and she’s directed Broadway productions such as “The Lion King.” She received an Oscar nomination for writing the song “Burn It Blue” for “Frida,” her Frida Kahlo biopic starring Salma Hayek.

Based on Steinem’s 2015 book “My Life on the Road,” “The Glorias” will be available on digital and stream exclusively on Prime Video September 30. Taymor penned the script with Sarah Ruhl.





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