Something that really stuck with me at the Womens Centre Stage Symposium was something Timberlake Wertenbaker brought up. She said that people get really uncomfortable when actresses play powerful women who are not nice, who are not obeying.
This is because we are not used to seeing these characters. We are used to men in such positions, for example Richard III, but most female leads are missing a tragic flaw. Either they are 'nice' or they are a 'witch', a character with only flaws and fundamentally evil.
I will watch the following films and research the following characters from which I heard they (the main characters) are 'not nice', I am very curious to see how 'flawed' they are, how complex and detailed their characterisation is.
Monster - Charlize Theron
Destroyer - Nicole Kidman
Medea - Greek Mythology
Mary Stuart - Almeida Theatre
From Medea I know she is so full of pain because of a man. I am curious if the explanation for the others' flaw also lies with a man or have another explanation, if they even have one. I wonder if many 'flawed' male characters 'owe' their flaw to the pain from a women..
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