Diversity and inclusion matter to everyone, even the actors. The Fast and Furious franchise has always been the place you go for men with big muscles, cars with big engines, and talk of "family" over and over again. But it hasn't exactly been the place for fleshed-out female characters. All that's about to change. While a guest on Wednesday's SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show, Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Letty in most of the series' 9 movies, explained why she demanded a female writer be hired for the series. Basically, she was sick of being relegated to playing someone with one note. Rodriguez had had enough of the stories being male-centric, with her male co-stars being given depth and range while she and the women around her never got to arc. "A lot of my necessity to have a female writer was just really more about candor," she began, adding, in her opinion, the male writers prefer "a one dimensionalized" female character. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 14 September, 2020