The Fierce Female Characters Of Film In 2018
This year, movies where women starred had Hollywood muscle behind them. So do this year's heroines — conceived before #MeToo, but landing in the moment — mark a change for the industry?
Consider the cast of fierce female characters on screen in 2018.
Danai Gurira's unflappable war general in Black Panther. Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in the love and power triangle The Favourite. Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan as rivals in Mary Queen of Scots. Nicole Kidman's bedraggled, hellbent detective in Destroyer. Viola Davis and her partners-in-crime in the heist thriller Widows. Rosamund Pike's portrayal of gutsy journalist Marie Colvin in A Private War. Yalitza Aparicio's fortitudinous housekeeper in Roma.
These movies have both star power and Hollywood muscle behind them. Yet studies persistently report that women are
