James Gunn has revealed his distaste for the stereotypical "perfect" female badass character trope.
"As a female, you don't always get to play very three-dimensional, complicated characters," Harcourt actor Jennifer Holland lamented on the latest episode of Peacemaker: The Official Podcast with James Gunn. "Either women are really mean and terrible or they're really nice, sweet and lovely. You [Gunn] add a lot of dimension to your characters."
"They're all people," Gunn offered. "There are differences between the sexes, obviously… but we're way more alike than different. When I came into [Hollywood], the female characters were always just perfect for the most part. As time went on, the quote-unquote 'female badass' started to occur. I also fucking didn't necessarily like that because they weren't badasses like Star-Lord's a badass or Deadpool's a badass. They didn't have personalities. They were still perfect badasses. So, being able to allow flaws in those characters was, to me, the coolest thing you could do."
While there have certainly been scores of fascinating, flawed 'badasses' down the years – the likes of Ripley, Sarah Connor, and Trinity all say hello – there also existed a growing trend of the sort of 'perfect' characters Gunn refers to from the 2000s onwards.
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