Female "Stars" Of Lena Dunham's "Girls": We Don't Get Roles Because We Have Vaginas
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THEY are the four faces instantly recognisable to a generation of fans who embraced their post-Sex And The City coming-of-age in New York City.
So it seems remarkable that most of the cast of millennial cult TV series Girls — which has just wrapped its sixth and final season — are struggling to find work.
In fact, the single breakout star from the controversial HBO drama isn’t a girl at all — and his four castmates Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Allison Williams believe that is a big factor in his success.
While Adam Driver has parlayed his role as a serial boyfriend on Girls into a stellar film career, including a key part in the Star Wars franchise as Kylo Ren, his female co-stars say they are largely overlooked. [Have these morons seen The Force Awakens? An overhyped female character had the biggest role in the entire damn film and Kylo Ren was an unstable little bitch.]
Kirke, who plays Jessa, says her career options are far more limited than the those of 33-year-old Driver, who plays her boyfriend Adam in season six.
“We don’t get a lot of job offers, not like you would expect,” Kirke told News Corp Australia. [Maybe you just aren't good enough?]
“I mean I can give you the five roles that get asked of us to do.
“Mine are like tough girl with undertone of sadness, I cannot read another script about a bad bitch who’s actually sad in the end and that was what the whole problem was.
“Every script Lena gets is like she starts out eating a sandwich and says something like: ‘what the hell!’” [A much meatier role than she deserves.]
“It’s just silly, I don’t understand it. And then Adam Driver’s like — whoosh (she says, making a shooting star with her arms).”
When asked what’s next for her, Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna) jokes “maybe a cab driver”.
“We are all sort of typecast,” she concedes.
“I also just think it’s a really sad reality of the gender discrepancy in our industry that still exists.
“After season two, Adam Driver was just like the most famous human ever [Valley girl exaggeration is alive and well in NYC.], and he’s insanely talented and he deserves it.
“But people often think that people are just throwing movie roles at us and we basically have to fight tooth and nail for every other job we’ve ever gotten. [The Titanic violinists are rising from the dead to play for you.] So yeah it’s tough to get a job in this industry right now.
“And it’s really tough to get a job that’s anything moderately different from the roles we’ve already played.”
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/...5c03deb6d1
For anyone who doesn't know, these four girls come from extremely privileged backgrounds. All their parents are multimillionaires. Compare that to middling-class Driver, who, despite the awful choice to appear in Girls, served in the Marines and worked his way through Juilliard.
From Jennifer Lawrence to Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy to Evan Rachel Wood, we have reached peak "roles for women". If these four can't succeed now outside Girls, when the fuck can they succeed?
It's also fair to say that many in America are sick of women like the cast of Girls being political activists before they are stars (which the three better-looking cast members are certainly not). Despite what the article says, the actresses are not "instantly recognizable", aside from mentally ill Dunham.
Self-reflection is really not their strength. Jemima Kirke recently blamed her divorce on "acting".
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