The NYT's video montage 14 Actors Acting assembles the Hollywood classic stereotype formula for women which traffics in the 'ol hooker, victim, doormat onscreen.
I didn't see any of the men asked to strip down for the cameras to show sexy underwear.
Natalie Portman's dead-eyed femme fatale; Noomi Rapace's dissolute smoky-voiced chanteuse; Jennifer Lawrence's horror scream queen; Leslie Manville as the doormat; Tilda Swinton another weepy victim. Even Chloe Moretz's portrayal of anger makes her look more unhinged with crimson lips rather than a subject with agency.
The acting craft should ask more from women than simply channeling boilerplate roles from the Women are from Venus playbook.
