An actress can feel very alienated.
Actor Naomie Harris [Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3; Miami Vice and others] comments on the portrayal of women in movies: “Everything starts in the writing, and getting more and more women’s perspective in the writing will have a huge impact on the quality of films we get…”
She has not yet been directed by a woman, and says she would love to be: “It would make a big difference. Often as an actress you can feel very alienated, especially if you are playing the female lead in a male-dominated cast and environment…”
Sally Field has commented in interviews that she feels “Actresses and other women in the industry need to have contact with each other. Not to tell sob stories, but to kick each other in the butt creatively.”
Continued on The Inner Actor
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