People act surprised that celebrities are actually human beings with emotions and flaws and not just perfect apparitions that materialize for interviews and red carpets. That’s on them really.
Some celebs are straight up assholes, some just have bad days. Like the rest of the world.

That sounds fine to me. And even describing a character of any gender as attractive or sexy is fine too if it is definitely necessary for your story. If you’re writing a story about 1950's Hollywood for example and you have a character that is a budding starlet, you’re probably going to describe her something like…

I feel like you’re investing too much on the idea of movie stars as guaranteed box office bank. It’s complicated, but generally speaking, no star guarantees a hit movie or big returns. A lot of movies flop with a cast chock full of bankable stars and a lot of movies break money making records with no name actors at…

It’s not particularly. She plays a character that people associate with her now, that of a 1950's starlet who looks beautiful. She’s the star of an aquatics show, but she gets pregnant while unmarried, so it’s up to the protagonist of the movie (studio producer), to keep her scandalous behavior under wraps.

I do sometimes wonder if there is a place Scarlett Jo can go after she ages out of the horrendously narrow Hollywood bracket for beautiful (to a young straight male audience). If you are an actress that doesn’t have that much else to define themselves with it seems to be a first class ticket to background Mom roles.…

My heart goes out to all the female producers and actresses in Hollywood, who have to deal with this shit on a constant day to day basis. How any woman survives in this town with sense of self and self esteem in tact is beyond me. Maybe this is why so many unbearably beautiful actresses end up dating old trolls.…

Nailed it.

Don’t be terrified! It’s really not that hard. If you are interested in crafting fully realized characters rather than bringing your sexual fantasies to life via film, then you will be fine.
A great practice is to take examples of interesting, compelling, well-written female characters that already exist in film and…

I had always naively thought that consumer demand alone would change things, but given how utterly clueless executives seem to be about what people want to see and why, I’m starting to think that’s really not enough at all. Seeing toy companies neglect to produce female action hero figures time after time when the…

Honestly, ALL women of color need including in this conversation. And (if we’re using this sliding scale logic) you could easily criticize Chris Rock for excluding them from his complaint, the same way he criticized JLaw for excluding black women specifically. Asian women are practically non-existent in the movie…

Jessica Williams would have been so perfect it’s not even funny. She is so on point with her commentary and would have let them have it from all the right directions.

Same. Use that power to talk about bias in general. More so with the powerful white men in the industry, who risk much less than even her.

I guess it’s more like I’m holding out hope that it’s a shot... for all actors of color. Mostly because it doesn’t feel like there’s any other immediately available avenue to get action out of discussion. How else to make a platform available and a discussion relevant to the media’s short attention span? Am I being…

Yup! It’s called Mind Hunter.

I love that second look an indecent amount.

I hate the name, but I’m hoping it’s so obnoxious it’s going to be tongue-in-cheek. The company itself has it’s share of controversy and problems later down the line, but I would be fully in support of a show that focused on a female business owners’ rise to success after starting at the very bottom.
The fact that the…

The Devil Wears Prada is a terrible name for an average novel that went on to be a great movie, so sure, I’ll try.

Same here. She’s also executive producing that new David Fincher (!) Netflix crime series too, so it looks like Netflix is really confident she’s going to putting together the right people for some quality shows. They seem to be interested in working with a lot of talent from the film industry in general lately, so it…

Hollywood puts money into risky stuff ALL THE TIME! The Peter Pan reboot? Risky. There was reboot already made not even 10 years ago. That movie tanked! Gunman? Risky. Putting one of the most disliked actors in all of Hollywood in an action movie in his 50s. Also tanked!
I could compile a list a mile long of stupid,…

Absolutely this! Once women and people of color start occupying more power positions at movie conception and execution stage, we will see change. Supporting those creatives would be a great way to keep the ball rolling.
The success of Fury Road and Star Wars gives me hope that there are broader archetypes being carved…