![]() ![]() The messaging in most female roles – that women should constantly be policing the aesthetics of their bodies, apprehensive about sex and ashamed of or embarrassed by their own desires – is cleverly embedded in Nancy’s dialogue. ![]() ![]() I think it’s still completely s**t, actually.” on the oft-cited notion that things were getting better for female actors: “I don’t think there’s any appreciable improvement and I think that, for women, the question of how they are supposed to look is worse than it was even when I was young…So, no, I am not impressed, at all. The 63-year-old has also long been one of the leading voices in openly discussing sexism in the entertainment industry. “Leo Grande” is one of two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson’s best-ever roles, and that’s saying something. That director Sophie Hyde, Thompson and newcomer McCormack deliver all of this with such a light touch is nothing short of masterful. And the movie’s attitude toward sex work – that this profession might actually offer a valuable service to humanity - is downright radical for Hollywood. Its gentle honesty about the wide spectrum of human sexuality stands in direct opposition to so much of what we see depicted in movies as “normal” sex – particularly women’s experience of it. The female-written and directed dramedy is a marvel, and a rarity. ![]()
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