It is also attracting Hollywood awards buzz, and this week it received six nominations for the Independent Spirit awards, including best male lead actor, supporting male lead and best feature.
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There are three main female characters in the movie: A hot sex robot that wants to fuck the male lead, a shrill Christian mother who wants to stop the male lead from having sex, and a hot teenage girl who is obsessed with Star Trek and wants to fuck the male lead.
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" She continues, "The male lead is never called a manwhore.
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With most women, it's a male director and a male lead.
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In that production, the male lead was played by Will Chase.
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As a Hollywood actor, he is a highly bankable male lead.
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Like Cavill, the Chrises all check Hollywood's white male lead handsomness boxes.
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You can often find yourself playing supporting actress to the male lead.
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Emma Stone is the female star, Ryan Gosling is the male lead.
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And this is the first movie that has, really, a male lead.
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It had a really great male lead as well as two female leads.
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Streisand and Peters considered Neil Diamond and Marlon Brando for the male lead.
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I don't think the male lead got hired because he had great legs.
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My choice to shoot Dylan as my first male lead was an intentional decision.
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James Corden was born to play Bridget Jones's Baby's new "charismatic, British" male lead.
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If you're one of the millions of people who saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story over the holidays, it probably didn't escape you that the film's male lead had something unusual for a male lead in an action movie: a heavy accent.
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I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be.
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Filmmakers, apparently, tend to cast the male lead actors first, before considering the female actress.
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Marvel Studios' eighteenth film and its first to feature a non-white male lead. But
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We're not even talking about what it means that Rock Hudson is the male lead.
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I need another streaming service like I need another CBS show with a white male lead.
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"Glee", too, lacked a compelling male lead after the sudden death of Cory Monteith in 2013.
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The film's male lead, Baykali Ganambarr, won the award for best up-and-coming actor/actress.
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The male lead in both series skips town to go hide out in an unlikely place.
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We watch the male lead in one episode, then the rest of the cast in another.
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The climax involves the male lead, revealed to be rather deranged, trying to blow up the school.
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"When I came up, I think really the only black male lead was Denzel Washington," Chestnut said.
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"I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be," Jenkins wrote.
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While they didn't say who Beyoncé and Rihanna would play, they had a suggestion for the male lead.
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For a long time on Thrones, he struggled with the role of self-serious, steady, understated male lead.
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By now, most of us know that Hugh Grant is, often typecast as the "charmingly befuddled" male lead.
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Women are very adept at fitting themselves into and relating to a male narrative, a male lead character.
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Sleeplessness makes you quite productive if you happen to be the brooding male lead in a major movie.
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Complaints also centered on how a prominent male lead would take the focus away from China's legendary female warrior.
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Jonas, our brooding male lead, accidentally traveled to a post-apocalyptic 2052 and was captured by an unknown group.
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The band takes the Blondie/No Doubt/Garbage model, but with a gay male lead singer instead of a girl.
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Sarunas says it's amazing, even if money is the driving force behind the change from a traditionally white male lead.
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"Even if you're being paid equally, it's the little things, especially if the male lead is bigger than you," Moretz says.
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Another thing that separates Every Day from, say, Twilight, is that there is no swoon-inducing male lead in the equation.
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A brief synopsis of the script involves two male lead characters who are looking to break into the Hollywood film industry.
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Mr. Cooper spends more time on the story's male lead than previous iterations have, perhaps because he's taken the role himself.
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The "Opus 19" male lead is one of Mr. Stanley's finest parts; it makes the most of his sensitivity and strength.
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She never recovered from losing the lead role in The Good Earth — a Chinese woman — because the male lead was white.
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The movie places its male lead in a role typically ascribed to women, a role where he unexpectedly and gloriously shines.
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The same goes for the male lead, her husband Jan Nyman, or "Jan from the (oil) rig," played by John Moore.
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The result is that the heart of the show doesn't change significantly as it switches out one male lead for another.
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Abhay (Sidharth Malhotra), the male lead, is on a mission to eradicate the scourge of dowry in his home state of Bihar.
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But regardless, it is what it is — though prettyboy McMahon strikes me as an atypical male lead for a Dick Wolf show.
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Then came the rumors of an awful thing: the potential whitewashing of the new Mulan cast — or at least its male lead.
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Lynch assuming the role of 007 in Bond 25 doesn't mean she's a true replacement for the historically white male lead, however.
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Though, it could also be the other way around, with the male lead guiding her as per typical heteronormative plotlines (rolls eyes).
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Adapted from Cao Xueqin's classic 1791 novel, this Huangmei opera features Brigitte Lin ("Chungking Express") as the male lead opposite Ms. Chang.
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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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Check. A clumsy meet-cute stunt to introduce the male lead, with whom she will have an argumentative, love-hate relationship at first?
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The Baby Driver star, 24, just nabbed the male lead role in Steven Spielberg's anticipated remake of West Side Story, multiple outlets confirm.
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Nini has a boyfriend (Matt Cornett), but it's her ex-boyfriend (Joshua Bassett) who's cast as the male lead in the play. Strife!
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I think there were two main leads with an African-American male lead, was that the original idea as you had written it?
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Because the "Cars" franchise has been Lightning's story, the male lead is, by that logic, the initial force moving the female-empowerment theme.
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Adam Sandler won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead on Saturday and celebrated with an extremely Sandler-esque acceptance speech.
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Paul Greene, a former J. Crew model and the male lead, presented the group with a white fondant cake topped with pine trees.
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Last night, Timothée Chalamet celebrated winning best male lead for his role in Call Me By Your Name at the Independent Spirit Film Awards.
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Ralph Angel, the male lead in Queen Sugar, is the new patriarch of the Bordelon family now that his father Ernest has passed away.
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There's also been a fair bit of controversy over the film, starting with an outcry over the casting of the male lead, Henry Golding.
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The male lead appears to be mocking Cree(t)ch, while Cree(t)ch is making an earnest attempt to smile for the selfie.
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Hope you rubbed the sleep out of your eyes, but yes, CBS got dinged for this on Wednesday (the white male lead thing). Fair.
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Ultimately, Extremely Wicked makes Bundy the same archetype of attractive antihero that has always been available for a specific kind of (white) male lead.
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Though the 25-year-old former Disney star did a respectable job of playing male lead Link Larkin in last night's performance of Hairspray Live!
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Now, their cheeky MCU counterpart and fellow sandy haired white male lead, Reynolds, has declared himself to also be a fan of the Hollywood Chrises.
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Tuesday evening ended on a jubilant note, with Mr. Peck's "Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes" (2015) and Russell Janzen in his debut as the male lead.
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BEHIND THE MUSIC Cast as the male lead, James Carpinello, who somehow survived "Saturday Night Fever," left the show after a freakish roller-skating accident.
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Several movies later, after she won her second Oscar, she was up for a movie opposite a less acclaimed male lead who was offered $10 million.
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We already knew Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu would be starring in the movie, but we didn't know who the male lead would be.
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I tend to focus on women characters and what they want in a situation rather than drawing a parade of women for the male lead to fuck.
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" When Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published After, the male lead character's name was changed from Harry to Hardin, though Hardin still has those "H.
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Crazy Ex has an Asian male lead, a mixed race actor whose character reflects her true identity, and a critical, layered role for a woman over 30.
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But attempts to screen finished sections keep comically failing, and Hannaford, who also harbors unrequited feelings for the film's male lead, seems to descend into mental collapse.
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He's not an everyman; he's not a muscular male lead produced in a lab by film studios; he's not a classically gorgeous movie star, like George Clooney.
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But maybe it will take the personality faults of the film's male lead and flip them on their head, showing the emotional toll they take on women.
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The tenor, Michael Fabiano, had just brought down the house at the Metropolitan Opera singing the male lead in Verdi's "La Traviata" that night in February 2017.
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This year, Cecilia Bartoli, the Italian mezzo-soprano, took on a male lead role in a Handel opera that was first performed in 1735 by a castrato.
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That has left ABC's George Stephanopoulos as the only male lead co-host among the three major broadcast networks' shows not to be facing sexual misconduct allegations.
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Joining the cast is Tony nominee Mike Faist who will portray Riff, the leader of the Jets, opposite Ansel Elgort who was cast as the male lead, Tony.
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It's a friendship morality tale (Barbie and pals are cast as extras in a Lindsay Lohan movie; Madison falls for the caddish male lead, and ditches her friends).
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The cast includes the Filipino-American actor Nico Santos, and Henry Golding, the male lead, who has an English father and a mother from Malaysia's Iban indigenous group.
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"It has those three great actresses and then the male lead [Chris Hemsworth], but I was just like they should have had better material for those ladies," she said.
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" Two are seeking ladies for their male lead, one a "petite or thin" model, another "a conservative country girl in a very pretty dress that flirts up a storm.
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She was, however, the first to lodge a formal complaint with the Cine and TV Artists' Association (CINTAA), a Bollywood trade body, charging her male lead with "unbecoming" behaviour.
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It's one of the first widely broadcasted shows with a black, gay male lead, and remains one of the only TV series that addresses homophobia and abuse head on.
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The British actor is known for his portrayal of Frankie in the 2017 film "Beach Rats," for which he recieved an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best male lead.
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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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To play the male lead—"that man we all want but we know we shouldn't fuck with," Matsoukas said—she found an amateur boxer from London named Dudley O'Shaughnessy.
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In addition to also playing the male lead in rom-com Sierra Burgess Is A Loser last summer, Centineo just starred in his third Netflix rom-com The Perfect Date.
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Indeed, the initial backlash to The Last Jedi's predecessor, The Force Awakens, was driven by only a handful of people but based entirely on the film's male lead being black.
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So, there were certain movies I conceived of when I was in college and they would have a male lead, and I was like 'Wait, why did I do that?
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The Office alum, 56, will play the male lead in Apple's upcoming but unnamed drama that also stars Jennifer Aniston, 49, and Reese Witherspoon, 42, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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And coming up, he's the male lead in Elizabeth Banks' Charlie Angels reboot and headlines his first action film as He-Man in the anticipated Masters of the Universe remake.
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In the first two, it's at the Oscars, where the male lead drunkenly interrupts his wife's acceptance speech to steal her spotlight and give an embittered rant about his own decline.
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After all, the Netflix YA saga is a love story above all; The Innocents isn't going to leave its dashing male lead as a pile of unblinking bones in the corner.
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" [Maxwell] says that romance novels were part of the evolution of gender relations at the time: "In those books in the '80s, we didn't see [the male lead] as a rapist.
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The gathering was headlined by what the Sanders campaign called "prominent supporters," including the fourth male lead in "The Hangover" movies and a member of the band TV on the Radio.
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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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One of the biggest problems with Grease is that the T-Birds — Rydell High's shit-talking, pelvic-thrusting greaser gang, which boasts male lead Danny Zuko as a member — are garbage.
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However, Banks pointed out that the many other male-lead franchises that get rebooted over and over again don't seem to face this question, when speaking to the Wall Street Journal.
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The male lead of 1971's beloved black comedy Harold And Maude is 18-year-old Harold (Bud Cort), who has a love affair with an 79-year-old woman (Ruth Gordon).
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Starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (who owns the multi-hyphenate role of male lead, producer, and director), it's no wonder the third remake of the 1937 film is on everyone's mind.
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It's funny — if there is a male lead, nobody talks about who their audience is going to be and who they're catering to and how it's going to work in a lineup.
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When we got Kiara at LAX and asked if an X-rated remake of the night was a possibility ... she seemed into it -- and even had some ideas for the male lead!!
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A turning point in his career came in 1988, when he played the male lead in the Garson Kanin comedy "Born Yesterday" opposite Rebecca de Mornay at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
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This picture is a heavy-handed pursuit of diminishing returns, given that the male lead, Vincent Elbaz, is equally unappealing as a creepy alpha male and a befuddled representative of oppressed manhood.
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Imagine a show about a brooding male lead whose confusion about his true parentage — caused by his father, who died before telling him the truth — causes him to develop feelings for his aunt.
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The 23-year-old Florida native became the go-to male lead in several other Netflix teen rom-coms, including 2018's "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser" and this year's "The Perfect Date."
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Arthur Bauer (Lars Ekborg, the male lead in Ingmar Bergman's "Summer With Monika"), plays a self-important but now inconsequential political exile who is pitted against the earnest student radical, Tomas (Gosta Ekman).
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Shortly after production began last fall on Season 6, sexual assault allegations surfaced against its Emmy-nominated male lead, Kevin Spacey, shutting down production and forcing the writers to reimagine the coming narrative.
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Trial By Fire's cast is stacked with awards-show favorites, from two-time Oscar nominee Dern to male lead and BAFTA-winner Jack O'Connell, and the production team already has Oscars on their mantels.
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When the movie ended, the film's male lead, Henry Golding, and fellow "Crazy Rich Asians" actors, including Selena Tan, Harry Shum, Jr., and Jimmy O. Yang appeared and thanked the attendees for their support.
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Although Plemons didn't take home the prize for best male lead for his work in Other People, the actor appeared to have a great time hanging out with Dunst and others seated at their table.
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" Jenkins also said she believes female characters "can and should be everything just like male lead characters should be" and shouted out to "the massive female audience who made the film a hit it is.
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The most pressing issue, though, is whether revisiting a familiar property with a traditionally male lead deprives women of their own stories that feature them organically, as opposed to shoehorning them into an existing format.
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While the trailer focuses a lot on the film's supporting male lead, played by Chris Pine, Wonder Woman is sure to bring the hard-hitting feminist superhero action we've been waiting for since Jessica Jones.
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My only question — and I don't think this is sexist; I hope I'd be asking the same question for a male lead — is, couldn't the Resistance have sprung for a change of outfit at the end?
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The male lead and head of older brother pop group M2, Woo-Hyun, is a tall drink of water—and he knows it, sauntering the halls of the record label like everyone there works for him.
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The role of special-forces captain was the first for the male lead, Song Joong-ki, after returning from his own military service, and the special-warfare command says it has seen an uptick in inquiries.
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Manchester, the Sundance breakout by writer/director Kenneth Lonergan, was nominated for five Indie Spirit Awards including editing, male lead (Casey Affleck), screenplay and male supporting (Lucas Hedges) — but, puzzlingly, no directing award for Lonergan himself.
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"I started to act to help my music career," says Camil, who found unprecedented success in 2006 as the male lead in La Fea Más Bella, the Mexican version of the Colombian telenovela that inspired Ugly Betty.
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Bradley Cooper's directorial debut certainly takes cues from its three previous namesakes (including his character's last name, a tribute to Norman Maine, the male lead in the original movie), but still feels distinctly like its own film.
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The Domestics star, 34, opened up about battling sexism in Hollywood during a sit-down with PEOPLE Now, saying that she's found that filmmakers always seem to cast the male lead before locking down a star actress.
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This notion provides the premise of the video, which shows Bunny utilizing sexuality to lure the male lead—whom Coates says represents a Trump-like character bent on oppressing women and people of color—into a trap.
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It also doesn't help that the Emmys were broadcast on CBS, a network that proudly announced a new fall lineup featuring entirely male leads—and all but one male lead of color, Shemar Moore from CBS's Criminal Minds.
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The two men pick up a Moroccan (El Hedi Ben Salem, the male lead in Fassbinder's "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul") and take him back to their luxury hotel only to be informed that Arabs are not allowed.
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Last September, he completed a 100-date tour and only took four days off work before beginning rehearsals for The Great Comet, in which he plays the titular male lead eight times a week at New York's Imperial Theatre.
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As he approached the stage to accept the award for Best Male Lead, overcome with appreciation for the recognition, Chalamet did a cheeky dab, because how else do you celebrate with all eyes and cameras on you in 2018?
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Jennifer Kent, the only female director in the main competition, won the Special Jury Prize for "The Nightingale" a revenge thriller set in 1825 in Australia whose male lead Baykali Ganambarr won for best up-and-coming actor/actress.
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Takahashi had originally envisaged a thriller-style film with the girl as the main character but decided on a male lead whose perspective he could better understand, which he said helped him to deepen the story and address themes like abandonment.
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Adi: I mean, if you have no chance of hooking up with anybody from Game of Thrones, it's also just more interesting to lust after the undead ice guy than the useless and boring (albeit technically also undead?) actual male lead.
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Both friend groups are forced to move out of their unofficial home, but only one of those goodbyes involved doctored eviction notices, anagrams, many silly cameos, and the male lead screaming out of resigned frustration before emotionally accepting his friend.
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Sweet Life, which Issa Rae will be co-creator, will be focused on the life of a family living in Los Angeles during the 1990s; Him Or Her will be a romantic comedy focused on a black bisexual male lead.
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The comics-accurate casting might've merely be a missed opportunity to not have a white male lead for the 14th movie in a row, but they also cast Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One, a powerful sorcerer of Tibetan descent.
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The New York Times recently reported that in the search for the male lead in "Crazy Rich Asians," one of the movie's producers was told by several prominent American theater schools that they hadn't had a male Asian graduate in years.
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There, the funnyman stepped to a podium to collect his award for best male lead for his role in "Uncut Gems" and let everyone know exactly what he thought of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooking him.
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Timothée Chalamet won best male lead for his performance in "Call Me by Your Name," Allison Janney won best supporting actress for "I, Tonya," and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" yielded prizes for Sam Rockwell (best supporting actor) and Frances McDormand (best actress).
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"The Big Sick" requires drawbridge work by the male lead, but not by the woman, who spends most of the movie in a coma; what makes him likable isn't courtship, but the more adult work of helping her parents care for her.
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While Harrison Ball, the male lead and in the role for the first time, held his own, there were strained moments: His partner, Erica Pereira, smiled brightly (as she often does) but was less capable of displaying a robust breadth of movement.
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The Broadway-bound musical unexpectedly announced Wednesday that its Tony-winning male lead, Steve Kazee, was leaving the production, and that Andy Karl would replace him in the key role of Edward Lewis, the affluent businessman who falls for the title character.
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In 2013, the New York Times Magazine published a cover story about Lohan on the set of her movie The Canyons, an erotic thriller with porn star James Deen as the male lead, which would go on to become a massive box office failure.
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They're part of a gradual move away from archaic tropes that has seen TV moms evolve to become full-fledged individuals whose identities are not tied solely to the care of their children or as the straight (wo)man to the funny male lead.
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On Sunday, after a farewell performance that will include one of the most challenging roles in the repertory, the male lead in George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations," he'll flash his bright smile for the last time from the stage of the David H. Koch Theater.
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In particular, I've always appreciated that Peeta, whose primary characteristics all code as feminine, gets to be the romantic male lead in this grim and gritty action franchise: He's the empathetic one who is a good communicator and a good cook and an artist, basically.
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And instead of finding another Amy, Ms. Ferrentino and Mr. Ellis decided that Mr. Barbanell should occasionally be given his own performance dates — and when he played the lead, the play would be "Andy and the Orphans," with some scenes rewritten for a male lead.
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He had started doing stage work, and was discovered by Ida Lupino, who signed him to appear as the second male lead in the polio drama "Never Fear," which she had co-scripted and was directing; for O'Brian that film led to a contract with Universal Pictures.
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" Earlier in the week, you would see a more specific clue that most people might know, like the male lead in the opera "La Traviata," or, if you wanted to clue it to the pasta sauce, something along the lines of "Made with a creamy, cheesy sauce.
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Three out of the four acting categories went to black actors on Saturday: Abraham Attah, the pre-teen star of Beasts of No Nation, for Best Male Lead; his co-star Idris Elba, for Best Supporting Male; and Mya Taylor, a transgender woman, for her supporting role in Tangerine.
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In a post titled "An Open Letter to the Creators of Disney's Live-Action Feature Film The Legend of Mulan" published on Angry Asian Man, the anonymous writer explains that he has seen a spec script for the live-action Disney film that would introduce a white male lead.
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Dylan: I was pretty chuffed to see Simone return, not least because I think, as happened with The Office's Karen Filippelli, the writers might have introduced a better-suited love interest for the male lead so as to throw some obstacles in the way of the central romantic storyline.
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On Tuesday at the Avengers: Endgame premiere, Entertainment Tonight caught up with Mark Ruffalo, the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but the romantic male lead in 13 Going on 30, and discussed the latter film's legacy, mentioning Larson's appearance as one of the "Six Chicks" in the '80s scenes.
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Unfortunately for her, Logan is rated R (and, my sister would like the record to show, not something Sloane will get to watch for many years) and I've flown from London to Austin to take her to see that other film featuring a hirsute male lead: Beauty and the Beast.
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The original idea was, yeah, an African-American male lead, the character of Stevenson who was the commander of the space station was originally slated to be African-American, and the flight director who's the person in charge of mission control was originally going to be a Latino-American woman.
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One reason that I appreciate and don't just love "A Star Is Born" is that its director and male lead, Bradley Cooper, gives fairly equal time to both the body of his co-star, Lady Gaga, and to his own, including through some amusingly self-admiring shots of his bare chest.
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Led by Neven Caplar, a PhD student at ETH Zürich's Institute of Astronomy, the new research found that papers with male lead authors were cited 10 percent more frequently than papers led by women, even after controlling for non-gender-specific disparities such as seniority, team size, publication date, field, and academic institution.
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Meanwhile, Quentin (Jason Ralph), the show's male lead, spent most of season two trying to work through his grief over the death of his girlfriend, Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley), while haunted by various manifestations of her (this story development proved both artful and a sneaky way to keep Dudley on the payroll).
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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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Marron was fed up with hearing that as a nonwhite actor he was "never going to play the romantic male lead," as he told the Washington Post's Soraya Nadia McDonald in an interview in July 28.33, so he set out to show just how few minorities are playing lead parts in Hollywood.
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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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But while that final season showed flashes of something interesting in the way Wright's character tried to weaponize claims of sexism once in the Oval Office, the writers weren't able to rethink the show in any meaningful way that could free it from the shadow of the gone but far from forgotten male lead.
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Elsewhere, Alexandra Daddario plays a lifeguard trainee that you know is sassy because she scoffs "and no fucks were given" when Brody tries to introduce himself, but that you also know will cave to his douchey charms eventually because this isn't the kind of movie that lets an attractive woman get away with not falling for the male lead.
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Cade is a peculiarly American fantasy of a totally normal, down-to-earth, salt-of-the-earth dude who is also, paradoxically, so smart and noble and strong and kind that he's earned his Chosen One status, while Vivian is one of those Strong Female Character types who actually just exist to bolster the male lead.
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But the Asian romantic comedy is already a wildly popular genre that's spawned a variety of online fan communities, and it comes with its own set of heavily used tropes, such as buffoonish gangsters who hold the female lead for ransom, or a male lead who gets into a car accident and ends up with amnesia.
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In the new year, Riccardo Muti and his Chicago Symphony have a marvelously diverse program of Stravinsky, Higdon, Chausson and Britten, as well as a spot of Brahms; the Boston Symphony outshines them in April with Shostakovich's Fourth and the second act of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," with the small matter of Jonas Kaufmann singing the male lead.
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Even in modern, critically acclaimed productions, women often end up playing supporting roles: either as a wife holding the family together while the flawed, nuanced, and overwritten male lead sucks up all the juicy stories, or as a love interest adding sex appeal and sensitivity as we once again witness the eternal struggle of being young, white, and male in this world.
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When festivals proudly roll out their 97 percent male lineups, there is backlash; when grime is omitted from the Brit Awards, MCs make their point heard; when the Oscars failed to represent everybody in the industry—giving Sylvester Stallone an award for Creed while ignoring the film's black director and male lead, for example—the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite spreads like wildfire.
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It has no qualms, for example, with showing a murdered woman's bloodied naked body over and over, examining her corpse in close-up, despite the fact that we know basically nothing of her as a person, nothing of who misses her or loved her, and nothing of how she lived or died apart from where it relates to the exoneration of the male lead.
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Last weekend, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 — Dave Malloy's electro-pop adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace — closed on Broadway after a casting controversy: The show's producers had asked the male lead, Hamilton's Okieriete "Oak" Onaodowan, who is black, to step aside early to "make room" for the more established (and white) Mandy Patinkin, who later withdrew from the production after social media backlash.
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Though directed and written by men (the script was written by David Kajganich, who has a gift for horror — he's also behind the upcoming Stephen King film, Pet Sematary) what's striking about Suspiria is its distinctly feminine energy Women make up the entire cast — the decision to have Swinton fill the only male lead role was intentional — and the issues at stake feel just as relevant today than they did in 1977.
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We won't spoil too much of Wonder Woman's (as played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot) first standalone foray into cinema, but here's a little lowdown: Expect fireworks and sexy banter with male lead Chris Pine (playing dreamy WWI fighter pilot Steve Trevor); nefarious villains General Ludendorff (Danny Huston) and Dr. Maru (Elena Anaya) who play around with poisons; and a bad-ass No Man's Land battle scene that will give fans goosebumps, and not just the ones who grew up rocking Wonder Woman Underoos.
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