Tag: viola davis

abbyyaytes:

sweetenergrandes:

“When the [Wonder Woman] TV show came out, I was twelve years old, and I just never seen anything like it in my life. I mean, soon as the going got tough, you saw this woman who was seemingly demure and sweet and beautiful and all of that. [Diana] could transform into this superhero and just get the job done. It wasn’t about her trading in her femininity or her intelligence. She wasn’t vindictive towards other women. She was just her. And the lasso, and the bulletproof bracelets

― I mean, that sort of superhuman power associated with being a girl… I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m still a twelve-year-old girl. I try to talk her off the ledge every once in a while, but I’m still a twelve-year-old girl.” ― Viola Davis on her obsession with Wonder Woman

mapplestrudel:

selfrescuingprincesssociety:

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p1ratew3nch:

wombatking:

jazz2midnight:

barefootdramaturg:

squirrelswithmakeup:

amuseoffyre:

Just had a thought for an action hero thing: 30-something woman hero is doing her ass-kicking thing. One day, her boss shows up at her door, and tells her she has to stand down, or there will be consequences. “Honey, it’s not that you’re too old. It’s just the public don’t like to see a woman of your age saving the day. It feels emasculating”.

So woman is stripped of her support team, fellow agents, and is pretty much put on the shelf. She tries to do heroing, but keeps getting cockblocked by younger women or superhero men she used to work alongside.

Just when she’s hitting rock bottom (and sitting in her house wearing pyjamas and eating ice cream), there’s a knock at the door. Judi Dench is standing there, and our heroine assumes it’s a charity collection.

“Oh no, dear,” Dench says, smiling. “We’ve come to recruit you.”

“Recruit me? For what?”

“To do what we do best: save the bloody world.”

And all at once she’s part of a covert ops team made of all the older women who have been retired and who currently are holding the reins of managing the world.

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase

I am here for this plan.

Oh, yes.

Of course, a few older women heroes and vigilantes don’t take the offer. Some are too embittered by the rejection they’ve faced and decide to show the world exactly why they’re still to be feared. 

Enter Judi Dench’s arch-nemesis, Dame Helen Mirren.

I need this like air

Look – here’s your casting call:

  • Sigourney Weaver – 67
  • Pam Grier – 67
  • Lynda Carter – 65
  • Linda Hamilton – 60 
  • Angela Basset – 58 
  • Michele Yeoh – 54
  • Ming-na Wen – 53
  • Famke Janssen – 52 
  • Halle Berry – 50
  • Tia Carrere – 50
  • Carrie-Anne Moss – 49
  • Lucy Lawless – 49
  • Lucy Liu – 48
  • Uma Thurman – 47
  • Angelina Jolie – 41
  • Milla Jovovich  – 41
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar – 40

The Recruit:

  • Jessica Alba – 36
  • Emily Blunt – 34

I need this to happen!

@gwen-cousland

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