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This month, she can add one particularly noteworthy title to the list:Black Christmas.
(Itd later serveas inspirationfor JohnCarpentersHalloween.)
Semesters later, she stumbles upon her assailants Panhellenic bros in a most surprising manner.
Youve played a broad array of characters over the years, but you really broke out in28 Weeks Later.
I think something thats really well-worn is this idea that a female protagonist has to be strong.
I think seeing ugliness and weakness and falling short of triumph is really noble.
It has to have the Sophia Takal ingredient.
Strong has become one of those terms, like badass, that seem to have been flattened by overuse.
Its the same with the word feminism.
There are two questions Ive been asked that Ive found really interesting.
I was like, yeah, but theres also conflict in there.
The characters dont agree with each other all the time.
They have different opinions and different values.
People mature at different speeds and different rhythms.
Additionally, people are like, What was it like working with a female director?
As if that would make this set any softer.
Everything we ate was pink!
Like, what do you expect?
Then you learn about the traumatic event in her past.
Riley is an assault survivor, and youve played characters before that are really carrying their trauma with them.
I really realized thats what we walk around with as women.
Dont take up too much space.
You apologize without even thinking about it.
Its a genre movie.
Protagonist is super passive, but Sophias writing it!
Then reading more and thinking, But Sophias gonna direct it!
There was a sense of fun to it as well.
For me it was also an examination of the sorority itself and the fact that this actually happens.
Its helpful for an audience and its really helpful for a teenage audience.
I dont know if I want to see that!
And its not like this is an all-female reboot.
But I also think its impossible to control that.
You want it to be the best it can be.
I do think its acknowledging that the patriarchy, as Gloria Steinem says, is in us.
Like, entrenched in us.
It will find an audience and there will be people it resonates with.
Yeah and forget about the Diva Cup.Yeah.
Wait till you hear about the Mooncup.
