Remember Rachel Zegler, the unibrow girl who played the live action remake of Snow White? You know, the one with seven “magical creatures” who looked like what you might find in any homeless encampment rather than seven dwarves? Remember how that blew up and Disney made AI dwarves instead? And remember how Zegler couldn’t stop running her mouth and alienating most potential viewers of the film? Remember how, when it seemed Snow White was going to bomb, Zegler cried racism, sexism, and all the usual usual excuses for leftist failure? Remember how the movie flopped so badly Disney lost $170 million? Good times.
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So good, it appears the star of the upcoming Supergirl remake, one Milly Alcock—no, I’ve never heard of her either—is trying to out-Zegler Zegler:
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Milly Alcock told Vanity Fair in a new interview that she’s aware she’ll face backlash over leading Warner Bros. “Supergirl” simply because she’s playing a female superhero. The 25-year-old actor is no stranger to dealing with intense fandoms, having broke out as young Rhaenyra Targaryen in the first season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon.”
“It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on,” Alcock said. “We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself.”
I suspect Rachel Zegler was very much being herself, and that didn’t end so well either.
I recall strong female characters doing well. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was very popular, and so were the Wonder Woman comics of the past. Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in several Alien movies, and particularly the original, had no lack of fans, male and female. Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor was embraced by movie fans, and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a great TV run and became an iconic character. Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft also had a great movie run. Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow has done good box office. Carrie-Anne Moss made a memorable Trinity in the Matrix films. Charlize Theron easily carried two “Old Guard” movies and Atomic Blonde, and the list goes on and on.
On the other hand, Pheobe Waller-Bridge in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny couldn’t carry that movie, nor could Daisy Ridley in The Force Awakens. Was that because they were female leads, or was it poor screenwriting and the woke imperative requiring women—any woman—to overshadow what have traditionally been male roles? Carrie Fisher had little trouble excelling as Princess Leia, a character she made ironic.
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Rumors of the new owners of the James Bond franchise picking a woman to take on that more than iconic role have not set well with fans. Apart from wokeness and perhaps a need to stick a thumb in the eye of Bond fans, why would producers want to mess with one of the most successful formulas in film history? In Die Another Day, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film in which Bond died, Ana de Armas played a convincing female agent with believable physicality, as did Lashana Lynch, as a OO agent backing Bond. The temptation of woke producers to make her—a black woman—the new Bond must be overwhelming, but such casting would almost certainly cause fans to stay away in droves, not because she’s female or black, but because the franchise has spent decades cementing the image of James Bond—not Jane Bond—in the public imagination. Charlize Theron excelled as a female secret agent, but it’s a virtual certainty no woman could fill James Bond’s shoes.
Alcock, who appears to be someone’s very young, not-yet-blooming, barely teenage sister, couldn’t leave well enough alone. She had to go after Christians, who apparently absolutely hate women and the movies:
“I guess women know that this is just how it’s always been, unfortunately,” Alcock said of the criticism over her retarded comments back in March. “And it’s from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts. Or someone’s name and then ‘Dad of four, Christian,’ which is hilarious to me. But I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you’re pissing the right kind of people off, you’re doing OK.”
Well, not if “pissing off the right kind of people” keeps them from spending their hard-earned dollars on outrageously priced movie popcorn. Alcock seems to be just another “celebrity” using her girl power to spout ill-considered, insulting political views and to make excuses for poor acting and screenwriting. Her only sort-of, Zegleresque, innovation is making excuses before the movie’s debut, not after it bombs. Perhaps she knows something we don’t?
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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