You have a Hispanic female lead, you have a transgender female lead, you have Black female leads.
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"I had been working on non-stop female lead movies and female-lead television shows, and I had been unable to get anything made," she said.
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The experience of seeing the first Marvel movie with a solo female lead was made better by nearly forgetting I was seeing the first Marvel movie with a solo female lead.
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"Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead," Curtis wrote.
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"We always do," said the female lead of the film.
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An espionage thriller with a female lead at its helm?
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A female lead in Bollywood still needs a male counterpart.
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Does the female lead have anything of interest to say?
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Dame Delancey, the female lead, was played by a man.
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Harley Quinn could follow Diana as the DCEU's next female lead.
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There haven't been a ton of two female lead shows period.
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"Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead," the star wrote.
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Even one that places the female lead in the power role?
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SVU, by contrast, always had a female lead detective in Benson.
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Separately, "Doctor Who" is breaking the mold with a female lead.
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In short, it's the moment the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first solo female lead warrants — even if what she really deserved was not to have to be the first solo female lead, 21 films into the franchise.
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The film marks the 20th(!) Marvel film, and its first with a female lead in the title – though Captain Marvel, out next year, will be the first MCU movie with a solo female lead in the title.
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We're looking forward to adding a female-lead movie to this genre.
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We'd like to see them step it up with female-lead shows.
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I was up for Big [in which Perkins played the female lead].
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Tonight the superhero film genre is getting the female lead it needs.
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He wanted her to write the chapters involving Mercer, the female lead.
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However, she's the perfect female lead for this previously male-dominated story.
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And there really haven't been very few two female lead of color shows.
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"Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead," the star wrote on Instagram.
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Hawkins will play opposite a female lead who has yet to be cast.
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Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager which was the franchise's first female lead.
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Five years ago Marvel had zero female lead titles, now they have 23.
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Nicole Kidman was cast as the female lead, Yvonne, who manages Philip's business.
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In Heather Mason, Silent Hill 3 boasted a fully three-dimensional female lead.
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And Steinfeld, the franchise's first female lead, is not a typical "Transformers" babe.
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With a stronger female lead, this promising first opera might snap into focus.
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But are we ready for a bossy, ego-driven, often clueless female lead?
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In the last decade, the number of films featuring a female lead has skyrocketed.
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The difference is that the focus will be on the female lead this time.
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"Arrival" is one of several movies in Venice that feature a strong female lead.
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It's also the biggest launch ever with a female lead over 55 years old.
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The closest thing to a female lead is Charlie's love interest, Katie (Rebecca Dalton).
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YOU has cast Victoria Pedretti as its female lead for its upcoming second season.
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There are many more castings to come on the show, including its female lead.
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The female lead in AMC's Preacher — played by Ruth Negga — has a colorful past.
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We can love and hate the Black female lead of a prime-time show.
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Apparently the only Black female lead in the first episode is a police informant.
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"On diverse female leads in 2017:"Now you don't only have one female lead.
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And I pray to God they reboot the Clinton presidency with a female lead.
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Giving the female lead a fringe is a favorite move for many male directors.
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I like Taiwan Housing Project, which has a female lead singer and guitar player.
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None has managed to eclipse Marissa Cooper, that teen soap's frequently imperiled female lead.
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A sci-fi movie where one female lead plays a whole bunch of identical characters?
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But one of its biggest failings has been its reluctance to deliver a female lead.
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A different franchise took over in 2015 and brought another strong female lead with it.
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Netflix promised at least one strong female lead, but White Nights is actually a twofer.
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The journey to it is a rough and singular one for female lead, Clarke Griffin.
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Entertainment Weekly adds that there's already a casting call out for a new female lead.
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In 1967, when Balanchine choreographed this segment of "Jewels," Ms. McBride was its female lead.
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Olivia Pope is a complicated female lead who's a black woman, who's messy and multidimensional.
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In the film, Capshaw played cabaret singer Willie Scott, the female lead, alongside Harrison Ford.
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She triumphed as the female lead in Balanchine's "Scotch Symphony" at the annual Workshop Performances.
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Season two of "Castle Rock" features a female lead who has a penchant for murder.
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We have so many roles in filmmaking that do not just pertain to a female lead, and I think it's a bit of a cop out lately to just cast a female lead and say that it's changing the perspective, but it really isn't.
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And in that same year, only two films featured a black female lead or co-lead.
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This is the female lead of the movie not getting any moments of necessary character setup.
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The female lead in A Star Is Born is a role that's particularly difficult to cast.
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This video was filmed for The Female Lead by Marian Lacombe, with photography by Brigitte Lacombe.
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Marvel's first female-lead superhero film Captain Marvel is already, by design, a wonderfully feminist movie.
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It also proved the enduring appeal of a strong female lead for boys and girls alike.
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Actress Katherine Heigl, of "Grey's Anatomy" fame, replaced Markle as a female lead on the show.
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When you think of the classic King Kong franchise, a certain female lead comes to mind.
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In 61 out of the 192 countries, the female lead was more than two percentage points.
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As Atkinson recently told The Guardian, "Big Sky" began as a screenplay with a female lead.
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There is dozens of superhero movies with male leads, and barely any female lead superhero movies.
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There&aposs no textbook heterosexual romance where the female lead awaits a prince to rescue her.
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Its TERRIBLE that I can't think of at least 5 female lead films with woc this year.
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Rogue One was the second Star Wars movie in as many years to boast a female lead.
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Some pointed to its strong female lead; others made a case for her suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
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And of the top films in 2017, only 33 percent featured a female lead or co-lead.
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Consider a show like Bones, which features a strong female lead in a traditionally male-dominated profession.
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"It's definitely refreshing to have a lead character as a female lead and really complex and great."
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Hell, why not have a female lead and draw a definite line under the whole Clarkson era?
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Star Trek Discovery, CBS's new Trek series due out next year, will officially feature a female lead.
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Nini (Olivia Rodrigo) is nervous that she isn't up to the task of playing the female lead.
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It was reading a story about a girl who was very different from your average female lead.
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Does the female lead get to have sex and not wind up either murdered or married after?
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Nothing about the series's move to its first female lead feels forced or is even directly acknowledged.
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Its a sad look that there's no WOC in this pic of us promoting our female lead films.
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In its season three finale, Fox's Sleepy Hollow killed off its female lead, Abbie, played by Nicole Beharie.
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I think that's a beautiful character to portray – especially nowadays that we don't have many female lead characters.
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" The best female lead category included nominations for Glenn Close for "The Wife" and Toni Collette for "Hereditary.
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I'd love to see a strong-budgeted rom-com with a trans actress playing a trans female lead.
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According to Deadline, the actor is stepping away from Chicago P.D., leaving the show without a female lead.
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Deadline describes Otto's role as the series' "female lead," but it doesn't say exactly how extensive that'll be.
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That means buying a ticket for a film directed by a woman or that features a female lead.
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Well, like I said, Oceans was already formed with having a female lead in mind, like The Gathering.
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"We moved away from the solo female-lead comedy for a while," David Nevins, Showtime's chief executive, acknowledged.
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Amanda Hess writes that the new Netflix drama "Girlboss" will challenge TV's "likability" requirement for female lead characters.
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"Wonder Woman" beat Marvel to the punch (literally) with the first comic book movie featuring a female lead.
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He says Sloane should play the female lead because she performed the role when she was workshopping the play.
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Of course you have the new Tomb Raider, a solid franchise with an increasingly strong, well-written female lead.
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Back on Persona 3 Portable for the PSP, players were given the choice between a male or female lead.
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This is not the internal monologue of the strong female lead in Will Smith's latest movie, I, Robot Rebooted.
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"Halloween" is now Curtis' biggest opening to date, as well as the best horror opening with a female lead.
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On Twitter, many fans expressed outrage about how quickly the death of the show's female lead was glossed over.
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She, like every other female lead in the Austin Powers franchise, has shagged and been wronged by Austin Powers.
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It's wildly ambitious and entertaining and to have an African American female lead [Regina King] — it was just radical.
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In some cases, the "wife" reference is purposely deployed to reduce the female lead to a less powerful position.
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The film was also set to add an additional female lead, with Jessica Chastain and Michelle Williams under consideration.
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With a female lead who wasn't scared of pratfalls, fake mustaches, or even being a champion for body positivity.
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But Megan Fairchild, in the female lead, was the true marvel; never pictorial, she remained in perpetual, elegant motion.
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A few weeks and a callback later, Ms. Dalon learned she had won the part of the female lead.
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"It always comes down to this idea of the female lead having to be incredibly likable," Ms. Cannon said.
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Toss in the fact that our lusty female lead is 54 years old, and the film feels downright deviant.
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Instead of letting Matt flawlessly romance the female lead, the audience voted for him to be kind of a dick.
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Iconic 90's TV show "Buff The Vampire Slayer" is getting a reboot with a reported African American female lead.
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The Shape of Water has a female lead whom the camera treats as the subject, not the object, of desire.
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Such a female lead, especially one in a position of immense power in the show's universe, is important, empowering representation.
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In the meanwhile, Z: The Beginning of Everything joins the ranks of female-lead shows that were killed by Amazon.
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Next month, it competes in the best feature, director, female lead and supporting female categories at the Independent Spirit Awards.
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Earlier this month, Larson, 29, opened up to PEOPLE about starring as the first female lead of a Marvel movie.
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Fuller announced Wednesday that the new show will feature a female lead character and honor the franchise's history of inclusion.
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TRUE AND THE RAINBOW KINGDOM True is the guardian of the magical Rainbow Kingdom and the show's resilient female lead.
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"I never really had a big problem with the idea of having a female lead," the legendary filmmaker told us.
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"It's hard to find an indie that has a great female lead — it's hard to find anything," Ms. Jones said.
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But we'll be more excited when the female lead is presented as her own person, and not her husband's possession.
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" Wise found a classic example with Crawl or Die, "a micro-budgeted horror film with a female lead, totally badass.
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"My love, speak to me in a poem," sang the female lead, opening an opera about racism, war and love.
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The existence of a female lead or co-lead had no significant effect on box office performance, the report found.
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He promised that his Pakistani co-actor, despite being the female lead, would not be seen during the film's promotions.
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Zandaya is the female lead ofSpider-Man: Far From Home, one of the most beloved superhero films of the year.
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In another, the female lead can't choose between two men, so she decides to live with — and date — them both.
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Indeed the new drama "Queen & Slim" depicts black womanhood without undercooked idiosyncrasies, all while centering a dark-skinned female lead.
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And female lead Tatiana Maslany is terrific on TV's Orphan Black but has never had a film role of this stature.
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Nevermind the fact that, in 22 movies total so far, only one has focused entirely on a female lead: Captain Marvel.
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But there's no shortage of excitement for Marvel's first female-lead movie, Captain Marvel, premiering on International Women's Day, March 8.
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Big Fish and Begonia checks typical Miyazaki boxes like having a strong female lead and a fantastical take on classic folktales.
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The show will be the first to feature a black female lead in an adult animated series in almost 20 years.
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It's wonderful that we also seem to be moving into an age of Henson as a female lead in movies, too.
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While users might appreciate suggested categories like "Movies with a strong female lead," hyper-targeting thumbnails inevitably ran into a problem.
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The Marvel superhero flick, the first of which to feature a female lead, was slated for a conservative $125 million opening.
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"When I came to L.A. 13 years ago, I don't think there was one sitcom with a female lead," says Kaling.
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She's a strong female lead who kicks ass on the daily (just as well, if not better, than the boys — gasp!).
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Outlander More than almost any other show on television, "Outlander" is ruled by the internal life of its female lead character.
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The proportion of non-experimental studies with female lead authors increased from 31 percent to 40 percent over the study period.
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Appearing in Shonda Rhimes's "Scandal," Pope was the first African-American female lead in a network drama in almost 40 years.
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Acting the part of the Strong Female Lead changed both who I was and what I thought I was capable of.
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I've played the Strong Female Lead in real life, too — as an analyst at an investment bank before coming to Hollywood.
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Some love Daenerys because she's a strong and unconventional female lead who paves the way for women in a man's world.
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Crisis in Six Scenes has its moments, and it's blessed with the immortal Elaine May as its female lead, which helps.
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I read 5 to 10 scripts a week, and 4 out of 5 have nothing else to say about the female lead.
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Marvel's "Captain Marvel," its first film to feature a solo female lead, is already on its way to shattering box-office records.
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When Scandal premiered in 2012, viewers were excited about witnessing the first Black female lead on a primetime drama in 37 years.
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While both The Simpsons and Futurama have dynamic, fleshed-out female characters, this is Groening's first series with a clear female lead.
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I'm loud and proud about Netflix serving me "Indie Romantic Comedies with A Strong Female Lead" as soon as I log in.
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Or every action film ever created in which the female lead runs around wearing loose waves, despite apocalyptic threats on her life.
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Telemundo announced a new series called "Operación Pacífico" starring a female lead, based on themes about federal agents chasing after drug lords.
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The 32-year-old actress' most recent role was the female lead in the 2016 vampire thriller Manhattan Undying opposite Luke Grimes.
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I always imagined that you wanted to do a show with a black female lead, but that it was almost historically impossible.
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It just means it's time for a cut, color, and curls in the style of the sassy female lead of the popular show.
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You'll never see a female lead as a feminist hero, or a male lead as someone who can easily talk about his feelings.
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At the screening, women kept coming up to me and saying how much they appreciated an age-appropriate wife for the female lead.
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We could have told him that female-lead films do well, but we're glad Ross didn't share the popular sentiment that they don't.
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That means Curtis now holds the record for the highest grossing opening for any movie with a female lead over 55 years old.
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Working on [a major TV show starring female lead actresses], it was my first time seeing female first ADs, which was really cool.
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The female lead is Penny Lane, Kate Hudson's breakout role, and whose actual name is nearly as absurd as her nom de rock.
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Though Tremblay didn't score an individual nom, Room could potentially take home wins for best editing, best female lead and best first screenplay.
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Rossum is the show's female lead, but was paid less than her male counterpart, William H. Macy, who plays Fiona's absentee father, Frank.
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For reasons that are never specified, the female lead strips down to her underwear to assemble her rifle before the movie's final battle.
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Lara, the real Lara underneath the script, is an antidote to decades of action films — can you name a more dangerous female lead?
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" Perron explained to me, "It all started, well— There hasn't been a female lead who's been able to be both absurdist and sexual.
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When it came to the music video, Adeline enlisted director Liza Voloshin as a part of her effort to keep things female-lead.
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Protagonist Carrie Bradshaw tells her boyfriend, the author of a new book with a female lead, that the character's scrunchie needs to go.
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"We're going to have to have a great female lead to get anybody to come see that film," Warner added with a laugh.
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The show has already been renewed for a second season, and what's more, it stars Australian actress, Abbie Cornish, as the female lead.
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That ABC aired the first series with a black female lead in nearly 40 years can be attributed to two other black women.
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So Yellin did what Netflix often does to woo users: He played to her interests by mentioning the strong female lead and rave reviews.
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For a female lead in a rom-com, Sasha is particularly believable, revealed to be a strong, vulnerable, and multilayered woman scene after scene.
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The most visited national park in the nation will now have a female lead ranger for the first time in its 85-year history.
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Female lead Lilette and her mother Vanessa Suarez (Shirley Rumierk) are desperate for every single waitressing shift they can get to make ends meet.
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Her comeback broke all kinds of records at the box office, including the distinction of biggest opening weekend with a female lead over 55.
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The first movie wasn't spectacular, but it did have its bright moments, including a good performance from its female lead and some sly comedy.
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The show's diversity won't end with the female lead, Fuller said, according to EW. "We're having a gay character," he revealed at the event.
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One industry insider — a producer named Ross Putman — is putting it all out there on Twitter, revealing actual female lead descriptions from real scripts.
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We also get dialogue similar to some of Imtiaz's earlier films, a tortured hero and a female lead whose perspective is hardly deemed important.
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"I did consider male actors, but we talked about it and we thought it was better to find a great female lead," he said.
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If things have started to shift it's partly because heroines like Katniss Everdeen and creators like Amy Schumer are helping redefine the female lead.
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There is no excuses anymore, and so I think Marvel and D.C. will continue to make more female lead productions, because success is proven.
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But I don't want to be a strong female lead either, if my power is defined largely by violence and domination, conquest and colonization.
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A "revisal" of a Meredith Willson musical has a strong female lead who doesn't quit, and her unrelenting energy makes for a static production.
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Each film in the "Seasons" box is in some sense a portrait of its female lead (who, in every case, was a nonprofessional actress).
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In 2015 and 2016, the artist made a shot-for-shot remake of Dirty Dancing with her as the female lead (and sole character).
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Unlike the movie, the series has both a male and female lead, while also offering more nuanced stories about religion, mental illness and sexuality.
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This winter's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also appears to focus on a female lead, as does next week's *Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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Donnelly plays female lead Addison, a cheerleading hopeful and human who befriends Zed (Milo Manheim), a charming zombie who hopes to become a football player.
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"A female lead in my department once begged her male bosses to support her with a team to complete a challenging production project," Smolcic writes.
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The first Marvel film built around a female lead no longer had to be an iconic piece of popular feminism, because that had been done.
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Jess, too, is an unusual female lead, but one could argue that she relies heavily on the film's male football coach for guidance and encouragement.
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Blanchett is nominated for best female lead for her role in Carol, and Leigh is nominated for best supporting female for her turn in Anomalisa.
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It's a glass ceiling that took more than five decades to crack but the beloved British series Doctor Who is finally getting a female lead.
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Now we can add the Mother of Dragons herself to that team: Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke has been cast as the film's female lead.
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Hasbro, like other toymakers, faced a storm of criticism when it initially omitted products that feature Rey, the film's female lead character, from its range.
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And in a recent interview, the actress says she's "confused" by hype that singles out Wonder Woman for its portrayal of a strong female lead.
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"It always comes down to this idea of the female lead having to be incredibly likable," Cannon told The New York Times of the series.
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The 21st installment of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe — and its first film with a solo female lead — has earned $1.003 billion internationally since March 8.
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Moreover, the film does turn the mental-health stigma "on its head"—by presenting its neurologically atypical female lead as clever, dynamic, and bracingly real.
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Much of the anger has centered on the movie's female lead, Deepika Padukone, who has been subject to a sustained campaign of abuse and intimidation.
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"The avenging-women are strong female lead characters who actively disobey the patriarchal culture of disarmament, in an apparently feminist display of empowerment," she writes.
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It just so happens that "Camino Island," with its female lead, inviting location and huge plot whammy, is his most Hollywood-friendly book in years.
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The four films mentioned in the first item above are joined by a love of a certain herb — and the absence of a female lead.
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Only the animated Zootopia was close to fulfilling the requirements, but the female lead was considered sexualized (in this case a cartoon deer played by Shakira!).
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Constance Wu — who has been brave and unflinching in speaking out about race and representation in the industry — plays the female lead in Crazy Rich Asians.
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Crazy Rich Asians changes the dynamic largely by fleshing out the characters, and shifting the balance of power to the female lead rather than her boyfriend.
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A little like Peep Show but with a female lead, Fleabag is extremely funny but only kind of a comedy—it's also heartbreaking and bitingly honest.
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" During a surprise appearance at Comic-Con, David Tennant, the tenth Doctor, added his support for Whittaker: "Doctor Who—another show with a strong female lead!
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The 21st installment of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe — and its first film with a solo female lead — took in an estimated $455 million worldwide since Thursday.
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Wonder Woman is clearly making an impact, and it's great to see the revamped D.C. Universe's first film with a female lead getting so much love.
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You know how Netflix is always suggesting you watch a Psycho-Thriller Comedy With A Strong Female Lead And Vague Romantic Subplot Plus Conspiracy Theory Twist?
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Correction August 10th, 9:10PM ET: This article previously stated that Star Trek Discovery's female lead character would assume the rank of captain, not lieutenant commander.
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At the same time, a revival of "The King and I" took a financial tumble after the departure of its Tony-winning female lead, Kelli O'Hara.
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Fast-forward 32 years for the next instance of Spielberg making a film with a female lead: The BFG (2016), which, sure, may not even count.
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Catherine Gumarin, Mercer University, Class of 2019 In a romantic comedy, the female lead might scribble her phone number on a restaurant napkin to demonstrate interest.
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Making a movie about Ethiopia that still centers on a white female lead just seems dense given the lack of women of color in Hollywood's narratives.
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But the movie frames a story of people in Africa—people whose presence isn't terribly common in Hollywood—as relevant only with a white female lead.
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Jessica Simpson claimed she was up for the female lead in the 2004 drama "The Notebook," but turned the role down because of the sex scene.
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Viewers enter the episode knowing (from the end of episode eight) that the show's female lead, Alison (the brilliant Ruth Wilson), has died, apparently of suicide.
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The 2018 remake, which Curtis also executive produced, set a record for the largest opening for a horror film with a female lead with $78 million domestically.
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The film's romantic lead brings a gun to school, shoots blanks at his classmates, and the female lead kills a classmate by shooting him in the chest.
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When "Scandal" premiered, Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope was the first African-American female lead in a network drama in almost 40 years — the first in my lifetime.
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But in 2019, 43 of the 4.13 top films had a female lead or co-lead — the same percentage of female leads and co-leads in television.
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But then Netflix's recommendation engine pushed me toward a section called "Korean TV Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead," which is an amazing bit of machine learning.
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While The Night Of is Naz's story and quest for the truth and survival, that doesn't mean there can't be room for a strong female lead, too.
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The Female Lead is a non-profit organization dedicated to making women's stories more visible and offering alternative role models to those ever-present in popular culture.
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Some flashbacks are very reminiscent of the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", another piece of popular culture with a female lead who was a true hero.
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The Female Lead is a non-profit organisation dedicated to making women's stories more visible and offering alternative role models to those ever-present in popular culture.
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While she was show creator Stephen Falk's first and only choice to play the female lead opposite Chris Geere, FX initially said no after a screen test.
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I hope to God this is only the beginning for Ben Leonberg, the director, and Cynthia Granville, his ass-kicking (or tentacle-kicking, I suppose) female lead.
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Robin Wright, House of Cards' female lead, will become the Netflix show's new star in its sixth and final season, replacing her on-screen husband Kevin Spacey.
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While most journals increased female lead authors over time, NEJM actually had a smaller proportion by the end of the study than it did twenty years earlier.
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In the fourth and final season of AMC's comic book adaptation Preacher, tough female lead Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga) is subjected to a Rorschach test psych evaluation.
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In this staging, Prince Siegfried — whose mother is pressuring him to marry — seeks refuge in imagining a magical lake, where we meet our doomed female lead, Odette.
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After all, Preaker goes against what we've come to expect of a strong female lead; someone who has her life together and faces adversity with poise and grace.
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"Not only are we more than [just the strong, smart female lead], but complex in that we have layers of all sorts of characteristics and emotions," she said.
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Close, who scored a Best Female Lead win for her star performance in The Wife, brought along her dog, a Havanese, as her arm candy for the evening.
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That Garry Marshall romantic comedy, a modern-day fairy tale about a "hooker with a heart of gold," was a film that demanded a relentlessly charming female lead.
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And still, director Patty Jenkins, is being forced to defend her film against the idea that because it starred a female lead, Wonder Woman is a women's movie.
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According to a 2017 study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion initiative, only 34 out of the 100 top films in 2016 depicted a female lead, or co-lead.
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A recent episode of Atlanta, Donald Glover's brilliant new series on FX, attempts to contextualize its underdeveloped female lead, Van, through her friendship with an old friend, Jayde.
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At an event in the city's Georgetown neighborhood, Chastain said she was excited to play the role of a strong female lead, especially one in the nation's capital.
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Given all this, is it really likely that producing duo Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson would risk the success of the Bond franchise on a female lead?
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She studied at the Actors Studio, auditioned for dozens of parts and finally landed the female lead in "The Most Happy Fella," which is where she met Loesser.
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To say that this tense sci-fi thriller, directed by Chang (born Yoon Hong-seung) and produced by Jackie Chan, has a strong female lead is an understatement.
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Forty-three of the 100 top movies featured a female lead or co lead, four more than 2018's number and more than double the amount in 20193.
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The female lead from Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be added to the future edition of Monopoly: Star Wars, Hasbro announced in a statement provided to Mashable.
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But the more I acted the Strong Female Lead, the more I became aware of the narrow specificity of the characters' strengths — physical prowess, linear ambition, focused rationality.
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Combining shamrocks, superheroes, spying and a smidgen of feminism — March is Women's History Month — this production from Funikijam World Music features the company's first female lead, Ashton Parrack.
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"Back then, the female lead was kind of the fire hydrant that all the men wanted to prove themselves on, so you'd get hit on a lot," she says.
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Tasha: And it's worth noting that the female lead is in charge of the brutal killing sprees, and a talented, principled guy is in charge of the fashion design.
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Robert Pattinson seemed open to the idea of a spin-off, and though the show will have a female lead, perhaps there's room for him somewhere in the plot.
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Villa, looking so devoid of confidence and purpose that they're in the running to play the next female lead in a Michael Bay film, had absolutely nothing about them.
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The human touch that transcends duty—such as a subplot in which North and South Korean enemy soldiers help each other—appealed, as did the refreshingly strong female lead.
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That brings us back to the top, since Margaret Lockwood was the female lead in both "The Lady Vanishes" and "Night Train to Munich," but played two different characters.
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Later, in 2012, Olivia appeared as the signature "gladiator" in the white coat and became the first African-American female lead in a network drama in nearly four decades.
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According to a new study from The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, 2019 saw just as many female lead characters in family films as male lead characters.
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Machiko Kyo, an actress whose many noteworthy roles in postwar Japanese films included the female lead in Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking "Rashomon," died on Sunday in a hospital in Tokyo.
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She also earned a Vision Fest Award for Best Acting by a Female Lead in a movie called "Consent" ... and starred in an acclaimed sci-fi film in 2018.
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Joss Whedon made his name by creating the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," centered on a strong female lead, and he has tried his hand at directing Shakespeare.
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To wit, Twenties is BET's first show with a queer female lead, which sheds light on the lack of representation from the LGBTQ community both on and off camera.
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Ergo, these men were sexist, implying that not liking Marvel's first solo superhero movie about a woman meant having an issue with the female lead, not the movie itself.
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It also came out recently that "Doctor Who" creator Sydney Newman considered casting a female lead in the 1980s to save the series during a period of waning viewership.
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The same study concluded that 289 percent of movies had a female lead or co-lead, and that a mere 12 percent of films had a gender-balanced cast.
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It's why, initially, black viewers lamented that the first black female lead character on network television in decades — Scandal's Olivia Pope — also happened to be the show's white president's mistress.
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Portman, who's nominated for best actress for her role as Jackie Kennedy in "Jackie" will also skip Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards where she's got a nom for best female lead.
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Most notably, it was the first time a Nickelodeon show had a female lead, so bringing it back now in the era of women's empowerment in entertainment is especially poignant.
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As the saga's latest female lead, Daisy Ridley recalls how the actress behind the iconic hair buns helped her deal with the expectations that come with joining the vaunted franchise.
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But it became a great show — and, perhaps not coincidentally, jumped about 30 places in the Nielsen ratings, into the Top 10 — once Penny stopped being the only female lead.
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She doesn't even say it when Remini's character Vanessa, who has been made the female lead this season, gives the bride-to-be an powerful speech about love and marriage.
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One of the last movie roles Doris signed on for was the female lead in "Old Soldiers" ... which is still securing its last bit of financing before it starts production.
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"I have three daughters it's perfect because I get to watch it with them and it's very inspiring to have this female lead that's very powerful and saves the world."
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The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star, 60, let the expletives fly uncensored while accepting the award for best female lead at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday.
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Miss Bala is her first feature film since 2015, and Hardwicke is well-aware of the stakes — especially for a movie directed by a woman starring a Latinx female-lead.
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She spent years touring in her family's beat-up van in Texas, where she and her band Los Dinos were often refused gigs because they featured a female lead singer.
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On the question of whether Spielberg's film will make the female lead an actual character instead of another trophy to be won, it's impossible to say without seeing the film.
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When she first materialized on screen 20 years ago this week, audiences had never been faced with a female lead who was so unlikable, so frustrating, and ultimately, so watchable.
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Kaling, who co-created the series with Matt Warburton, wanted to focus on the show's female lead and put a more diverse love story on TV and computer screens everywhere.
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The film's director, Catherine Hardwicke, tells PEOPLE Stewart, 28, was cast first as the story centered around the female lead Bella Swan who falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.
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Check out more videos from VICE: "People continue to rely on myths such as, viewers won't consume a product with a female lead or a female of color lead," Howard said.
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"It was a cesspit of horrific misogyny," Garai, 34, who played the female lead in the 2004 prequel to the original Dirty Dancing, tells The Observer of the environment on-set.
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Mouni Roy, the film's female lead, gets limited screen time as a sometimes violent, shrew-like wife who thinks nothing of slapping her husband and patronizing him every chance she gets.
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That theory will be put to the test in March, when Marvel debuts "Captain Marvel" — the first female lead installment in the MCU that's already a big draw in presale tickets.
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In season one, Julia (Stella Maeve), the show's female lead, summoned a goddess, only to realize she'd been tricked by the god Reynard, who hitched a ride on her summoning ritual.
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Producers of the film have cast a very white Nat Wolff to play the protagonist Light Turner, and an equally white Margaret Qualley to play opposite him as the female lead.
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Considering all the issues that have plagued the production thus far -- from this and this -- the pivot to a strong, black female lead has gotta be some refreshing news for fans.
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It's fine when it's not B.S. But a lot of it means a producer took a previously white male lead and is now going to make it a black female lead.
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The gloom and backlash that followed Marvel's first female lead, half-human, half alien champion, could have easily overwhelmed its momentum, similar to the much-critiqued, $70 million losing Ghostbusters 2016.
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Glenn Close is a living legend, and she collected a Best Female Lead award this weekend at the Independent Spirit Awards (ahead of a potential Best Actress Win at the Academy Awards).
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As in his original interview, Cameron pointed to his own films, particularly Terminator — which starred a female lead (Linda Hamilton) in an action hero role — as examples of a more groundbreaking approach.
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It's a mix of the outsize and the intimate, best summed up by the fact that the most highly stylized pop star in the world appears without makeup as its female lead.
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Known professionally as Celina Jade and in China as Lu Jingshan, she played the female lead in "Wolf Warrior 2", released in 2017 and to date the highest-grossing Chinese film ever.
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Many celebrities are using their platform to balance the scales, like Reese Witherspoon whose production company Hello Sunshine encourages projects that are female-lead both in front of and behind the camera.
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Inspired by Dunn's foundation, also called The Female Lead, the collection works to amplify the scope of women's achievements across a wide variety of fields, from politicians to CEOs and star athletes.
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Dormer started the script in 2009 but says things have changed on screen since then with female-lead films in movies such as "Black Swan" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
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The opera's female lead is Isabella, a feisty Italian captive who uses charm, wit and mountains of pasta to spring free her lover, Lindoro, who was taken into slavery some months earlier.
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"I went to Indiana Jones and Jaws and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made, and by the way, he's never made a movie with a female lead," Banks said during her speech.
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When the first trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One premiered, some (predominantly male) fans were upset that Rogue One will be the second consecutive Star Wars movie with a female lead character.
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The anti-romantic-comedy "You're the Worst," about a toxic relationship, has focused with realism and sensitivity on mental illness: The female lead has clinical depression, and another major character has PTSD.
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While The Hunger Games and Divergent series made heroes out of women, only a few of the dozens of DC and Marvel films produced in the last three decades featured a female lead.
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Lara Croft was a huge exception to a rule that still sadly holds true for much of the gaming industry today: building a franchise around a female lead is seen as a risk.
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For Edwina Dunn, the founder of non-profit The Female Lead, when it comes to salary negotiations it's important to see and treat it like a trade between the company and the employee.
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Taraneh Alidoosti, the female lead of Farhadi's "The Salesman", which is nominated for this year's foreign language Oscar, has already announced she would boycott the ceremony in protest at Trump's "racist" travel ban.
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"Gentleman Jack" is advertised as a show about the first "modern lesbian", yet it does not trust its audience to be modern enough to grasp historical nuances or accept a challenging female lead.
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Amid the shakeup, Zirinsky is elevating O'Donnell into a role that's typically been held by male journalists and is making King, a woman of color, the female lead for the network's morning newscast.
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With House of Cards about to end, its much deserving female lead Robin Wright certainly deserves to get a juicy role (and equal pay) that puts her on top from the very beginning.
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In the case of that woman from Blair's flight, her legions of "fans" are digging day and night to find more information, to meet the female lead of this summer's hottest rom-com.
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Evangeline Lilly starred as The Wasp alongside Paul Rudd in the latest Ant-Man movie, and while she shared star-billing, some considered that to be the first female-lead in Marvel history.
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"They are finding it difficult to mend their relationship because there is this all-seeing, all-knowing entity meddling in their lives," Angeline-Rose Troy, the female lead in the play, told Motherboard.
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Captain Marvel is at its most empowering when it forgets to applaud itself for being Marvel's first movie with a solo female lead (Ant-Man and the Wasp had a female title character).
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Captain Marvel will be the first in the franchise with a standalone female lead, so it's only fitting that Larson is being so supportive of the cinematic universe's first black superhero as well.
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Female lead authors also had better odds of placing non-experimental studies – such as those based on analysis of existing database information - in these prominent journals than they did of placing experimental research.
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Martin McDonagh, the writer and director of "Three Billboards," has said that he wrote a strong female lead because he had done so in his plays but had yet to in his films.
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Ms. Anspach (pronounced ONS-bok) had the distinction of playing Sheila, the good-girl-turned-hippie female lead, in the Off Broadway production of the musical "Hair" that immediately preceded the Broadway run.
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In this scripted series, an alluring young actress, Megan Morrison (Christine Evangelista), auditions for the female lead in a summer blockbuster opposite Kyle West (Josh Henderson), one of the world's top-grossing stars.
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Granger Smith's wife, Amber, has been in so many of his music videos, he confesses that he told his producer she'd be his female lead in his latest one — before he'd even asked her.
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They added that Cameron Johnson — a handsome baritone whose duet, "Mayn Goldele," with the female lead, is the show's earworm and centerpiece — is interested in reprising his role but is working out scheduling details.
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See for yourself: The Tomb Raider video game reboot has been largely praised for retaining the series's strong and smart female lead character, while shedding the franchise's instinct to objectify her at every opportunity.
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Waitress is female-centered: It boasts a diverse cast, a complex female lead who doesn't instinctively yearn to put her own life aside to be a mother, and a heartwarming portrayal of female friendships.
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Ms. Ronan has impressed critics as the female lead of "Brooklyn," getting best actress nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Elizabeth Banks apologized Thursday for incorrectly asserting that Steven Spielberg has never made a movie with a female lead, and for appearing to dismiss the significance of his 1985 adaptation of The Color Purple.
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The mogul, 64, stars in Ava DuVernay's Disney adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time — a groundbreaking movie featuring a diverse cast and a young African-American female lead in 14-year-old Storm Reid.
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Of course, Portman jumped up to the A-list starting in 1999 when she played Padmé, the female lead of the Star Wars prequels and the future mother to Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.
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From the trailer it looks like the film will have a similar vibe to Black Swan: plenty of paranoia, a fair bit of sex, and an overall focus on a female lead steadily unravelling.
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This moment — and every other one when Marvel seems to suddenly remember that Captain Marvel is its first movie with a solo female lead ever — summons the same feelings of a modern Dove commercial.
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She will be the first African-American woman to lead a Star Trek cast, fulfilling executive producer Bryan Fuller's goal for a female lead that would ideally be played by a woman of color.
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I was friends with Natasha [Lyonne] and I knew I wanted to write something for her, something with a strong female lead, combined with my love of conspiracy theory and weird UFO YouTube videos.
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That same year, he told the Press Association via The Irish News he found it "refreshing" to act in a movie with a female lead while referring to his Molly's Game costar Jessica Chastain.
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Maron made the call to congratulate Silverman for her Screen Actors Guild nomination, Best Female Lead Performance, for her role as Laney in the drama I Smile Back, and the conversation quickly turned personal.
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The news comes just one day after Star Trek Discovery showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed at CBS' TCA day that the new series in that franchise will feature a female lead and a gay character.
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At the podium, Banks claimed that Steven Spielberg, one of the industry's most beloved directors and one of the most popular filmmakers of all time, hasn't ever made a movie with a female lead.
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At the Metropolitan Opera on May 16, she debuted as Kitri, the female lead in "Don Quixote," and on Friday, she performed the title part in "Giselle" in New York for the first time.
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In July, Curtis surprised fans when she announced two more sequels were planned after the reboot earned $76 million in its opening weekend — the largest opening for a horror film with a female lead.
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But stipulated: "The Leftovers" was the best drama of the last season, with the best male and female lead acting performances, and the drama categories are now the "second-best to 'The Leftovers'" categories.
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After the remake broke box-office records with a $77.5 million domestic opening weekend — the largest opening for a horror film with a female lead — the actress announced they would be making two sequels.
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Times are changing, thank goodness we're now in a world where people want to hear female voices, where you can have a female lead, and have a strong indigenous lead in the movie as well.
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The film also allows its female lead to know her worth and expect more from her workplace, whereas What Women Want prioritizes a romantic ending over Darcy being respected at her job, or respecting herself.
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The cast of 2017's "Wonder Woman" discussed exploring the origins of the Amazonian warrior heroine played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, and bringing a strong female lead to the male-dominated superhero movie world.
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It's easy [for them] to put on a TV show with a female lead; [it seems to be much harder for Hollywood] to hire a bunch of female executives to run your television production company.
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In July, Curtis, 60, surprised fans when she announced two more sequels were planned after the reboot earned $76 million in its opening weekend — the largest opening for a horror film with a female lead.
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Celine, the female lead, talks about how when we're young, we believe there will be many people we'll connect with, and how only when we're older do we realize it happens only a few times.
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Celine, the female lead, talks about how when we're young, we believe there will be many people we'll connect with, and how only when we're older do we realize it happens only a few times.
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Algorithmically, it can infer that someone who likes chunky necklaces will probably like beaded necklaces too, the same way Netflix's algorithm infers that you may want to watch another comedy with a strong female lead.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is filled with amazing female characters, from Captain America's Black Widow to Black Panther's Okoye, but after a decade's worth of MCU films, we've still never seen one with a female lead.
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Afton Williamson, the female lead of ABC crime dramedy The Rookie, says she has quit the series after her complaints of racial bullying and sexual harassment on the first season set went ignored by higher-ups.
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But although this movie brings us another female lead in the tradition of Weaver, Winona Ryder, and Noomi Rapace (Katherine Waterston, who plays Daniels), Alien: Covenant is not about the human heart, let alone a woman's.
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The movie falls firmly within the female-lead sci-fi genre, alongside Hunger Games and Twilight and, as an unabashed "love letter" to black teenage girls, it earnestly delivers a message of empowerment and self-acceptance.
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People don't go to the movies for politics they go to the movies to be entertained, it shouldn't matter whether the movie has a female lead the only thing that should matter is that it's entertaining.
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When "Ariodante" is restaged at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in Austria later this week, it will have a female lead in the male role: the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who is the festival's artistic director.
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We have seen a surge of support and interest in female-lead content, but in the grand scheme of things, the industry still has so far to go before we reach the parity we are striving for.
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For every person on Instagram wearing a "Strong Female Lead" tee, there's another proudly sharing their feminist body art with the world — and we don't see the movement (nope, not a moment) slowing down any time soon.
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We first realize female lead Kate might be more interested in girls than her new pal Luke O'Neil (Jahi Di'Allo Winston), who instantly falls for Kate, when she steals a softcore porn magazine out of his garage.
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The first time we see Lady Gaga as Ally, the female lead of A Star Is Born, she's standing in the bathroom stall at the catering company she works for, breaking up with someone over the phone.
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That is not an unheard of set of characteristics for the female lead in a Hollywood film—Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa in George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" had the full set, too—but it is rare.
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Guerrilla has been criticized for "erasing" Black women from this story by having the female lead be an Indian woman; Ridley has explained that he is in a mixed-race relationship, and wanted to capture that dynamic.
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Movies like Black Panther and Get Out are celebrated, the new Star Wars made a point to have a diverse cast and a female lead, and cultural products are criticized for being too white and too male.
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McDormand beat out Margot Robbie, Salma Hayek, Regina Williams, Shinobu Terajima and Saoirse Ronan for the prize, making her only the second actress to be named best female lead twice at the Spirit Awards, joining Julianne Moore.
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It was, and remains, one of the few video games to genuinely respects its female lead, and had I known it existed (and had I been old enough to even spell "feminism") I would have wanted it.
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That's signaled by Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936), a mesmerizing, 20-minute blue-tinted version — no larger than a small painting — of only those parts of the Hollywood movie "East of Borneo" that feature its female lead.
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We need female lead characters and female voices, not only to rectify the male skew created by centuries of gender inequality, but also because women make supreme heroes, and it is high time we recognize that fact.
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A 2018 survey showed that out of 350 box office hits between 2014 and 2017, those featuring a female lead outperformed those starring men -- despite the fact that women occupied less than a third of those roles.
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But because TV works the way it does, The Magicians can't wait until its second season to make use of its female lead, Julia (Stella Maeve), even though book two is where she becomes a real force.
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Both series are prequel series that focus on a female lead character, both will air exclusively on a streaming platform, and both mark the return, in series form, of a beloved science fiction franchise after a lengthy hiatus.
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Her role proved such a breakthrough moment that it inspired a Bechdel Test alternative—the Mako Mori Test—that used as a benchmark a female lead with a storyline that had nothing to do with supporting a man.
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News, this mini Captain Marvel is 8-year-old Illy, who was invited to interview the stars by non-profit organization The Female Lead, which is dedicated to increasing visibility for women's stories and promoting alternative role models.
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In 2019, the top seven studios in Hollywood made $7.8 billion in global revenue from films with a female lead or co-lead, and $6.9 billion from movies with actors of color in lead or co-lead roles.
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Mumbai-based illustrator Shivani Gorle was inspired to start the series when she came across a Netflix category called "movies with a strong female lead" and wondered why there was a need for it in the first place.
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A cursory check yields a bunch more from recent years, like Southpaw (2015), Foxcatcher (2014), The Fighter (2010), Fighting (2009), The Wrestler (2008), Warrior (2011), Cinderella Man (2005), and Million Dollar Baby (2004), rare for its female lead.
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Our female lead Shelby has "a feeling of danger" but keeps mum and smiley, while her husband asks — without really caring — why the going price for the white clapboard Faulkner setting he wants to buy is so low.
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That's not to be confused with The Astronaut's Wife, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Preacher's Wife, or any number of films that focus the attention on a female lead while describing her in terms relative to her husband.
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And who knows, maybe Captain Marvel's Carol Danvers will help us rewrite the toxicities of the 90s too—like the fact that a movie with a strong female lead could have never actually been made in that era.
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Even the female lead, Evie, is not quite as clearly drawn as her male counterparts — beyond "photographer" (too-easy character shorthand for "artistic") and "secretly into Dylan," we don't know a huge amount about what makes her tick.
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In the new film, Sandler's girlfriend is played by Julia Fox, a glamorous figure from New York's downtown bohemia, who is essentially making her acting début as the female lead in one of the year's most anticipated films.
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"She's the most complex Black female lead we've ever seen in primetime," Dr. Brittany Cooper, cofounder of Crunk Feminist Collective and assistant professor of women's studies at Rutgers University told The New York Times of the Olivia Pope effect.
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Featured in The Female Lead: Women Who Shape Our World, a gorgeous new book profiling game-changing pioneers written by Edwina Dunn and photographed by Brigitte Lacombe, Streep gets painfully honest about the stark statistics facing aspiring barrier-breakers.
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Co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel will be the first of the Marvel franchise to feature a female lead as a superhero, and the first to hire a female composer, Pinar Toprak, for the score.
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As Ahn's profile is raised in the public eye, there will be much talk about how she isn't trained as a traditional car designer, and how as a woman, she's in a small esteemed group of female lead designers.
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Returning to the camp the next year from her home in Salzburg, she played Leonora, the female lead in Verdi's "Il Trovatore," silently acting and gesturing onstage as three fellow cast members (including her younger sister) narrated the plot.
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"Roseanne" was a bona fide trailblazer the first time around, with its focus on blue-collar Americans, its diversity of L.G.B.T. characters, and its star — a woman who did not look or sound like a typical television female lead.
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For the resistance, there's innkeeper Wan Jen-Mi, played by Li Li-Hua, whose long filmography includes the female lead (opposite Victor Mature!) in 1958's "China Doll," one of the last pictures directed by the great Frank Borzage.
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"They like what they like about this show," said the younger Mr. Wollan, who met his wife — Candice Lively Wollan, a Tennessee native and the Medora Musical's female lead — at Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
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"He has a mischievous streak that really works for me and that is very fun to play with," said the series's female lead, Jerrika Hinton, who plays a closeted F.B.I. agent struggling to separate the good guys from bad.
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Judging by their physical attributes, the men in Powers' Fan films looked as likely to be genuine fans as the female lead in his 2007 film The Hitchhiker looked to be a real hapless traveler looking for a ride.
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In 1984, Vanity confirmed to PEOPLE in 1984 that she helped script Purple Rain with the star in Minnesota, and that she was initially slated to play the female lead, a role inspired in part by her own life story.
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That's why you'll quickly feel like you know the ins and outs of a man like Mullins (Cedric The Entertainer), who runs Tray's landing pad of a home, long before you understand the inner life of so-called "female lead" Shannon.
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That real-world experience is always an asset on a set, which is why Reitman also recruited an all-female writers' room, the first-ever all-female lead camera crew in Canadian primetime history, and a slew of female directors.
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Spielberg directed the critically acclaimed and successful film The Color Purple in 1985 which did have a female lead, and Goldie Hawn starred in the director's 1974 film The Sugarland Express, and in 153 he released fantasy film The BFG.
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Her character doesn't have as much agency as we might now expect from a female lead — things happen to Bella, she rarely makes things happen — but the very act of having a female-focused blockbuster set the stage for the future.
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While this arc looks like the tired "female lead is baby-crazy" trope, the comparison between a baby trying to learn its mother's language and Louise trying to understand the heptapods really shows what a monumental feat language acquisition is.
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Because Captain Marvel has been so highly anticipated for so long — by Carol fans, by Skrull lovers, by MCU watchers who just want a female lead already — expectations can't help but run high, and the filmmakers acknowledge they're feeling the pressure.
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Promoting her character would add to the film's diversity index, which already features a female lead in Daisy Ridley alongside actors John Boyega, a Briton of Nigerian descent, and Oscar Isaac, who was born in Guatemala to Cuban and Guatemalan parents.
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People pulled out the classic "feminazi" calls, and inundated her with what is basically a heaping load of sexist bull crap, because she gave a (marginally) higher score to Rise of the Tomb Raider, a video game featuring a female lead.
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By shifting the intellectual focus of the movie away from the human and towards the machine—thereby redefining the very idea of "monster"—Alien: Covenant breaks with the franchise's tradition of leaning towards the female lead as its center. Why?
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For a show with a great female lead, Veronica Mars doesn't pass the Bechdel test that often, but this episode, which sees Veronica, Parker, and Mac teaming up to solve the Case of the Missing Monkey, is a welcome exception.
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Described by the producer as a place to "celebrate life, where love is key," the island setting of the video provides a place for freedom and spiritual rebirth, as the female lead dances herself clean among the waves and on the sandy shores.
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So far as I can tell, this awkward introduction to the movie's female lead is thanks to what appears to have been the removal of a scene featuring actor Steve Wilder Striegel playing a jogger who hits on Munn's character, to her disgust.
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It's no coincidence the creature appears off the coast of China, as "The Meg" seems to be targeting the massive Chinese market with the casting of the local star Li Bingbing ("Transformers: Age of Extinction") as its female lead, an oceanographer's daughter.
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When Netflix first announced its brand new series The End Of The F****ing World, one trailer scene immediately stuck out: female lead Alyssa (Jessica Barden) playfully pulling off the shirt of her love interest, who's driving through a forest, James (Alex Lawther).
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The series' other female lead, Helen Solloway (Maura Tierney), spends the finale coming to terms with the imminent death of her husband Vic (Omar Metwally), who has stage 4 cancer, and the revelation their neighbor Sierra (Emily Browning) is pregnant with Vic's baby.
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Theoretically, We Met will work the same way, except instead of offering you cult classic horror movies featuring a strong female lead, the app will know if you're more into brunettes who love to read or red heads who go hiking every weekend.
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In the female lead role of Squirrel Girl will be Milana Vayntrub, most recently seen playing Sloane Sandburg in This Is Us. If you don't watch that show, you might better know her as the unflappable saleswoman in those AT&T ads.
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It speaks to the historical inequities in the film industry that the second installment, "Catching Fire," became "the first movie with a lone female lead to top the annual domestic box office in four decades," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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The lyricist Sheldon Harnick told of out-of-town tryouts for the 1963 Broadway musical "She Loves Me," when he and the show's composer, Jerry Bock, showed up one afternoon with a new song they had just written for their female lead.
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Here are some key findings from the study: Gender: Only 9003 of the top 2900 films in 24.1 had a female lead or colead, mirroring an industrywide plateau in the percentage of female speaking parts, which has hovered around 25.6 percent since 2007.
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"The Sabbath Girl" shares a lot with the 1988 film "Crossing Delancey," including an immersion in Jewish faith and culture, an arty female lead who hesitates between a flashy suitor and a humble working man and the influential presence of a benevolent grandmother.
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Elizabeth Banks caused a stir last week when she publicly criticized Steven Spielberg for never having made a movie with a female lead; she later apologized in a tweet for forgetting his 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," starring Whoopi Goldberg.
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In arguably her most famous role as investigative journalist Seema Sohnithe, in the 1987 superhero blockbuster-smash "Mr India," Sridevi redefined the typical damsel in distress female lead, mixing a daring sexuality with intelligence and comic charm to outsmart the bad guys.
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The fact that Rogue One also has a strong female lead and a diverse cast is fuel for geek culture's ongoing and absurd debate around stories that have the audacity to suggest that women and people of color actually exist and do things.
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Fast-forward to 2016, when an episode of The CW's post-apocalyptic drama The 100 featured a groundbreaking love scene between the show's bisexual female lead Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and her lesbian love interest Lexa (Alycia Debnam Carey) — right before killing off Lexa.
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When Divergent emerged on the pop culture scene, it was expected to be the next Hunger Games: a YA book-to-movie franchise that's set in a dystopian universe, features a butt-kicking female lead, and stars a promising, up-and-coming young actress.
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So launching a show with a female lead whose bright and promising future has been abruptly demolished — in the next episode, she's referred to contemptuously as "the mutineer" — felt especially germane to the cognitive whiplash the world has undergone over the last 18 months.
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Following the actress' win for Best Female Lead, which she was awarded for her role in The Wife, Close initially made her way to the stage by herself, before giving her pooch Pip — whom she brought along as her date — the signal to join her.
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It's hard to imagine a TV landscape without the benefit of the show's landmark run — creator Joss Whedon and Gellar pushed a strong female lead into a world of supernatural creatures, which proved to be successful for ratings and a groundbreaking precedent for future shows.
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"I mostly wanted to write a really strong female lead for a film so I came up with this idea of a very angry mother who goes to war with her local police department," McDonagh told Reuters on the red carpet in London's Leicester Square.
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We both love comics from Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Saga) and this was his latest series with all-female lead characters, which matched the girl power theme of another comic he'd given me at the time (Nimona — also a quick and easy read!).
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It's still refreshing to see a woman meet men on their own turf, and with a cast and crew that's 95% Latinx, a female lead of color, and a woman director the helm of a studio movie, Miss Bala truly is a win for onscreen diversity.
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It might seem too soon for Theranos to get some Hollywood screen time, but movies have been made out of much less before — and this is one company that seems to have plenty of drama with the kind of strong female lead JLaw is keen to play.
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Since its first installment premiered on July 53, 2013, the Sharknado franchise has become practically invaluable to Syfy — but while the budget for each film has gotten bigger, the wage gap between female lead Tara Reid and her male costar Ian Ziering has reportedly remained the same.
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Still, no matter how much feminist leeway you give the film, it's hard to get around the big elephant in the room: that this nuanced, empathetic story with a female lead was written for the screen, and directed by a man accused of raping a teenage girl.
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Even ABC Studios' plan to cut two cast members (including female lead Stana Katic) couldn't reduce the budget enough to make the network pick up the show (a case of a studio and network being owned by the same company but ultimately disagreeing on a show's fate).
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On Wednesday, Bryan Fuller, the executive producer of the upcoming CBS series Star Trek: Discovery told reporters at the 2016 TCA summer press tour that the new show will include a female lead and the character will be a lieutenant commander on the starship, CNN reports.
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Expect to see her a lot in 2016: She's in five films scheduled for release, the highest-profile of which is Independence Day: Resurgence, in which she's playing the female lead – and a grown-up version of Bill Pullman's daughter, played by Mae Whitman in the original.
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The female lead is Jessica Manker, a friend of Foxing's soundman who majored in dance at Webster University in St. Louis and now works as a dance teacher—her way of infusing "improper" (read: modern) technique into the classicist ballet performance Coll had planned in the treatment.
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Her other roles include the female lead in "My Sweet Charlie," a 1970 TV movie in which she portrayed a pregnant runaway who falls in love with a black man, played by Al Freeman Jr. Her performance garnered her the first of her three Emmy Awards.
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It doesn't bode well that the movie initially seems more interested in Fred than in Charlotte, an apparent imbalance that suggests this will be another weak chuckle-fest in which the female lead is a convenience or decoration, on hand mainly to vouch for her guy's heterosexuality.
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Described as a "departure" from Nick Hornby's 1995 novel of the same name (and its 2000 film adaptation), Hulu's take on the story of a record store owner processing romantic loss will star female lead Zoë Kravitz and take place in a Brooklyn neighborhood facing gentrification.
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A237 supporters have been quietly noting that a decade has passed since a film carried by a female lead has won best picture, a message that could resonate with female voters in a "Million Dollar Baby" way, especially when gender inequality in Hollywood has come under intense scrutiny.
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As the female lead in three wildly successful action- and special-effects-heavy franchises (Avatar, Guardians Of The Galaxy, and the rebooted Star Trek series), Zoe Saldana has gotten used to being the only female actor on set for long stretches — but that doesn't mean she likes it.
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And Lieberman is ultimately the best fit for Rattigan simply because she actually has a personality—or, at least, what has come to passably signify personality in a female lead—the combat boots–wearing type, who is special because she Has Opinions and Isn't Afraid To Share Them.
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The show's producers, who clearly considered the music and lyrics by Meredith Willson more marketable than their female lead, declined to put her name above the title, which meant that (because of the Tony regulations of the time) she could be nominated only in the featured-actress category.
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" The other, in 21997, was for a role that was in some ways the polar opposite of Mother: the female lead in the 22015 revival of "Kiss Me, Kate," the Cole Porter show about a troupe of actors performing a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew.
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"[Clowns] twisting Liz Banks words by mentioning WonderWoman&CaptainMarvel as successful female lead action films are dumb, both of these films from either DC or Marvel which are destined to make BILLIONS bc of the same fanboys who claimed Charlie'sAngels is bad without even seeing it," one user wrote.
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In "The Chrismukk-Huh?" it dusts off the hoary "it was all a dream" trope to do it, stranding Ryan and Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser), the show's new female lead and Ryan's potential love interest, in a dream/alternate reality where Ryan had never come to Newport Beach.
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In a video for The Female Lead, a non-profit and book dedicated to promoting women's stories and achievements, the director sat down and talked about her illustrious career, starting from the very, very beginning, and ending with the advice that any person looking to create something needs to hear.
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Mark Medoff, whose acclaimed play "Children of a Lesser God," featuring a deaf central character, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into a 22016 movie that won an Oscar for its female lead, Marlee Matlin, died on Tuesday in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 22004.
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Aside from being one of the scariest series in film history, with a windfall of $1.3 billion worldwide, 20th Century Fox's "Alien" franchise was a trailblazer for featuring a strong female lead with Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley, a role that made Weaver a star and helped her score an Academy Award nomination.
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The success of this series, much like the success of the Twilight series that inspired it, hinges on the idea of the primarily female audience identifying with the female lead — who is a mousy take on the every woman — and wanting the kind of love affair she shares with the male lead.
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You may know her as Viva, the sometime actress, model and artist who sprang to fame — or infamy — as a sylphlike muse to Andy Warhol in the late 1960s; the female lead in a roster of intentionally amateurish soft porn Warhol films that were showcased in TriBeCa recently in their 16-millimeter original.
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People like Geena Davis [who in 2007 founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media] are doing incredible things to bring awareness to how we can start changing things by simply putting more women or girls in the background, or by changing the lead from a male lead into a female lead.
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And it will dance around the notion that everything happening to Rodrigo is written in the stars, as when Rodrigo's grandmother discovers that he and female lead Hailey (Lola Kirke) are destined to be together by reading her tea leaves — as opposed to checking the show's credits and realizing they're the two main characters.
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As the waiter walked away, Mr. Urie said he had only broken that dietary rule once, when he was in Washington doing "Buyer and Cellar," and was up for a part in the Broadway revival of an award-winning play he declined to name: the role of the gay best friend to the female lead.
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