“I remember when ‘Thelma and Louise’ came out, all of the press was predicting that this would start a whole wave of female-centric films,” Davis says. “The next film I did was ‘A League of Their Own,’ which was also a big hit, and the same prediction was made, especially for female sport movies. But neither prediction proved true. [It’s] the same for the many female-driven films over the last 20-plus years since then. No matter how successful female-centric films have been, Hollywood just keeps feeling they’re one-offs, that men won’t like films starring women, and so they should not be made often.” Read More…
Is Hollywood finally a woman’s world too?
December 17, 2015