Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Rebecca Hall: Strong female characters ain't saints - 'we need to be villains, too'

British actress Hall takes part in a panel discussion of HBO's "Parade's End" during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Rebecca Hall thinks Hollywood gets it wrong when it comes to women. Strong doesn't equal saintly. "There's been a sort of trend for a while of people writing strong women as women who are morally right, which is so uninteresting, " Hall told TheWrap. "It's no fun and frankly it's a massive disservice to womankind. It boxes us in to making these sort of slightly dull, virtuous choices." The English actress' search for a character who was prickly and flawed led her to the legal thriller "Closed Circuit," which opens Wednesday. ...








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