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Maggie Gyllenhaal Wants To See More Real Women In Movies

Maggie Gyllenhaal Wants To See More Real Women In Movies
Maggie Gyllenhaal Wants To See More Real Women In Movies

Maggie Gyllenhaal on the red carpet at the Gracies award. Photo: Getty Images

Maggie Gyllenhaal has a message for Hollywood: Get real.

The 37-year old actress has spoken to New York Magazine about the image resonating most with her in show business. Any guesses for what that might be? Women. But not impossibly perfect, airbrushed, stereotypical images of women. Real women.

The recent portrayal of women onscreen that most resonated with her was Charlize Theron’s Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.

“There are the really hot girls whose eyes are not bloodshot, who are wearing bandages and looking really beautiful and lovely [in the desert],” Gyllenhaal told New York Magazine. “But my heart went out to the imperfect one, the one who showed us herself, her humanity, that sense of being ourselves.”

Speaking from her own personal experience in Hollywood, Gyllenhaal bemoaned the lack of realistic and credible roles for women.

“I can’t tell you some of the weird parts I’ve been offered to play, that I can’t recognise as any human being I’ve ever come into contact with. People really like to see fucked-up crazy women, and really perfect powerful women.”

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