Michelle Rodriguez Could Quit Fast And Furious Over Its Portrayal Of Women
Fast and Furious star Michelle Rodriguez has taken to Instagram to issue what appeared to be a threat to quit the franchise, if it doesn’t change the way it portrays women.
“I hope they decide to show some love to the women of the franchise on the next one. Or I just might have to say goodbye to a loved franchise,” she said, posting on the day of Fate of the Furious’ digital release.
It’s not the first time she’s spoken out about the male-dominated world of Fast and Furious, telling Entertainment Weekly last month: “it seems like we’ve been stuck in the ’90s for the last [however] many years that we’ve been doing the franchise, because of the macho bravado involved, but that truly is the voice of the urban ghetto. I was hoping that at some point we’d evolve out of that vibe”.
Fast 8 director F Gary Gray has since responded to the star’s Instagram post. Speaking to Business Insider, he said: “I thought there was a strong representation of women in the movie [Fate of the Furious] when you bring on what I thought was one of the strongest antagonists in Charlize Theron. And then you have Helen Mirren, who has a cameo that’s strong”.
Fate of the Furious ended up grossing $1.238 billion at the box office. It’s currently the second highest grossing film of 2017, and set the record for the highest grossing opening of all time. The next installment in the franchise will be out on 19 April 2019.
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Inb4 everyone in the comments starts bitching about feminists
Idk what to say tbh
How can she quit something that doesnt exist?Wait there will be a another Fast movie. AH MEIN GOTT
Two more in fact. Plus a spin-off, apparently. And probably other stuff. Milking that cash cow hard!
The francise hase been dead since 2009 anyway
SO TRUE HAHAH
I think it died after the first one imo.
I’d even forgotten that the 8th movie was out.
After Fast 5, it became like an Italian sitcom where the baby in the program in the 1980s grew up to be the main protagonist now.
as much as you hate the franchise saying its dead is quite the ridiculous statement, it is one of the most selling franchise movies ever, of course that does not make it automatically good, but it doesnt make it dead since 2009 either lol
“I thought there was a strong representation of women in the movie” just cause you make 4 or 5 woman wear normally sized pants compared to the plethora of mini-skirts, mini-jeans and other tiny skimpy clothing doesn’t mean you’re “representing women”
Oh come on… Letty was a strong female character all along, even Mia who was a minor support and had nothing to do with cars was shown to get out and have fun every now and then. Now a woman is up against the whole crew and almost wipes them out and it’s not good enough? The whole series is about macho bravado, How many Michelle Rodriguezes can you cast for this kind of role???? Leave this fluff out of this kind of “let’s have a couple six packs with mates and watch a movie” kind of films. It’s going too far.
I’ve never seen a man wear a mini skirt so it’s pretty accurate
Are men properly represented?
That makes a real statement when you announce your displeasure after the 8th movie. Respect.
More to the point, do we really need a F&F 9?
we need FF33 like yesterday. And Vin Diesel needs his OSCAR right now!
Let’s be honest here: they will never stop making f&f films
Did we need F&F 8?
It should have stop after the first last job…
I THOUGHT IT WAS FINISHED, FFS