Elizabeth Banks’ 2019 remake of Charlie’s Angels could have revamped the well-known movie franchise, however Banks revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that the media fostered a “gendered agenda” behind the iteration, which in the end influenced the way it was promoted.
Banks instructed The New York Times final September that she wished the movie “had not been presented as just for girls,” which she has now blamed the media for in her Rolling Stone interview.
She defined to the outlet that the media had deemed it as “some feminist manifesto.”
“People kept saying, ‘You’re the first female director of Charlie’s Angels!” she shared. “And I was like, ‘They’ve only done a TV show and McG’s movies … what are you talking about? There’s not this long legacy.’”
She added that her want to direct the movie didn’t come up from a “gendered agenda” of her personal, however somewhat as a result of she “just loved the franchise.”
“That [agenda] was very much laid on top of the work, and it was a little bit of a bummer,” she revealed. “It felt like it pigeonholed me and the audience for the movie.”
However, Banks famous that the “real bummer” was feeling like she misplaced “control of the [film’s] narrative.”
“You realise how the media can frame something regardless of how you’ve framed it,” she detailed. “I happen to be a woman who directed a Charlie’s Angels movie that happened to star three incredible women,” referring to Naomi Scott, Kristen Stewart, and Ella Balinska.
She even highlighted how she needed to ask for the movie to be promoted to males along with girls, as she remembered being instructed that Charlie’s Angels would have a partnership with hair salon firm Drybar, a “hair-blowing thing.”
“And I was like, ‘All right … but could we have an ad during the baseball playoffs?’” she requested
She discovered it “interesting to see how the industry sees things that star women,” and that it proved to be a “real lesson” for her.
The movie was a box-office flop, grossing $US73.3 million globally in opposition to an estimated manufacturing price range of $US55 million and an estimated promoting price range of $US50 million.
Banks instructed Variety that she “took full responsibility for” the film’s wrestle on the field workplace, however fortunately, she has lately garnered reward for her comedy horror movie Cocaine Bear.
She instructed Decider that she was “thrilled” about its field workplace success and would really feel simply as thrilled if she was in a position to direct a sequel.
“I made a movie that I wanted to see with people that I love making things with, and I just love how it turned out,” she mentioned. “And if I got to make something like that again, I’d be thrilled.”
This story initially appeared on Decider and was reproduced with permission
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