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icymi – Tom Hardy talking about female action heroes

“It’s about time you had better female leads in action movies. This is not a feminist argument, it’s a person-hood situation. This is how we ought to reflect the times — not so much strong women, but just people. You know, you have a male and a female who are both just person-hood situations on both sides of the gender. I wouldn’t put it past George to come up with a transgender [hero], do you what I mean? He’s not the type of person who’s going to mince his words.“

“This is how we ought to reflect the times — not so much strong women, but just people.”

“I think that’s very, very smart of [George Miller] to deliver a female lead in Max Max. I remember talking to George back in Namibia about old school movie star, male-­female chemistry. How does the dynamic work between a strong alpha-male and a strong alpha-female on screen when you get them together. And for me personally it’s very important that one has to yield to the other to understand who’s going to team lead — who’s going to alpha and who’s going to bravo, as it were, in sort of a military sense.” 

“You would’ve thought that a man’s man is this and a woman’s woman is that, but none of that actually exists in a partnership where you have the chemistry between a leading man and a leading female. And I think in this one as well, Charlize led this entire movie and it shows on screen and you can see it quite clearly. One has to yield to that. Because if you fight it, you get malleted.”

Source: metro.us/the-secret-feminism-of-mad-max