Rachel Zegler is being paid by Jennifer Lawrence to try to make people forget the whole “nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work – because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead’ thing. Yes, yes, that’s what the history of cinema has taught us all right.
Sorry, Ms. Lawrence. Ms. Zegler is doing yeowoman’s work in making an utter ass of herself, but I’m *never* forgetting your remarks. They are just too damn funny.*
(Remember when the woman who stars in Netflix’s most successful show of the last several years, Wednesday, was heavily criticized in the industry trades and on Twitter? Because she threw her weight around in the writers room to make sure the character of Wednesday Addams stayed true to the, well, character of Wednesday Addams? Funny that nobody who criticized her is saying boo about Zegler torpedoing yet another Disney movie.)
