Jennifer Lawrence
Reference News Network reported on October 18, 2016 that on December 7, 2016, the authoritative film magazine of the United States released the list of "100 Most Influential Women" in the entertainment industry in 2016. Among them, 26-year-old "big cousin" Jennifer Lawrence, with the sky-high salary of 20 million US dollars in the new science fiction work "Space Traveler", has become a well-deserved representative of young Actresses in Hollywood. She is also the only actress of her age group to be a member of the 20 million club.
The "Most Influential Women" list has been selected for 24 years, with the aim of praising women's struggles in Hollywood and encouraging them to break the "glass ceiling" of Hollywood. But a recent study of Nearly 100 Years of Hollywood Stars showed that sexism is still widespread in Hollywood. Using IMDB data, the study analyzed the gender and age of all Hollywood stars from 1920 to the present, and found that in the world of the movie screen, men always dominated, and male actors always had greater opportunities to star than women. At the same time, the median age of actresses with photogenic opportunities has gradually risen from 27 to 32 years old, but this progress has been very slow.
In other words, judging only by the numbers, women's status in Hollywood has not been satisfactory. However, the cold data is not the whole story, with the rise of the new generation of actresses, their stories are the most vivid interpretation of hollywood female group portraits. Perhaps from the struggles of their roles on the screen and real life, we can glimpse the tempering and growth of the new generation of Hollywood actresses. About them, it's not just about their looks and acting skills...
The first benchmark of "non-traditional"
In August 2016, Lawrence, nicknamed "Big Cousin" by fans, topped the list of the world's top ten highest-paid women in 2016 published by Forbes magazine with $46 million. If you add the two indicators of acting skills and works, "Big Cousin" is definitely the first benchmark and leader of the new generation of Hollywood actresses.
Despite being young, the acting skills and status of the "big cousin" did not come out of thin air. Back in the 2008 feature film Burning Plains, Lawrence shined as a supporting character, a role that earned her the Marcelo Mastruani Award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Two years later, she became a hit in "Winter's Bones," which earned Lawrence, who was only 18 years old at the time, nominated for Best Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards and Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.
In 2012, after "The Happiness Line Behind the Clouds" reached the top of the Oscars, "Big Cousin" successively launched works such as "American Hoax", "Selena" and "Struggling Joey" at the pace of one movie per year. After experiencing steady and steady acting skills, the "big cousin" is rapidly rising and becoming a new generation of model actresses in Hollywood literature and business.
The first "post-90s" Oscar queen in history also showed extraordinary appeal at the box office, and "Big Cousin" participated in "X-Men: Reverse Future" and "Hunger Games: Mockingbird (Part 1)" in the same period, two successful commercial films that grossed at least $1.4 billion at the box office.
Judging from Hollywood's traditional aesthetic of actresses, the "big cousin" is not slim and bone-like, looks more like a strong woman, and always makes trouble from time to time, but she is so real to the public. She stumbled on the Oscar podium with a big grin and was amused at various awards ceremonies. She said she'd rather look chubby on TV than go on a diet to lose weight, and her favorite thing to do is to lie on the couch and eat junk food.
In 2014, the intimate nude photos of a female celebrity in Hollywood were stolen by hackers and spread online, shocking everyone. The "big cousin" was also unfortunately recruited. When encountering such unfortunate things as nude photos flowing out, many actresses will choose to swallow their anger and calm down. But the "big cousin" has a clear attitude and full of personality in the face of the "nude photos gate". Through Vanity Fair magazine, she first denounced the nude photos gate as "not a scandal, but a sexual crime" and that "all the people who look at the photos constitute sexual assault.". This tough response won the applause of public opinion.
Katniss, played by "Big Cousin" in "The Hunger Games", became a spokesperson for resistance to oppression, and in reality, she has always been outspoken and fast-talking, and she has also fired at the phenomenon of "equal pay" for Hollywood actors and actresses on many occasions. In 2015, she publicly wrote "Why I Earn Less Than My Male Partner", pointing to sexism in Hollywood:
"I think I deserve the same salary as my male counterparts. I think I should have the right to dominate my own body. I also think that as a woman, I should be involved in deciding on matters that have a real impact on my life. I think more that in society, I should be treated with the same respect as men. At the same time, she also stressed that the reason why she stood up for the equality of income between men and women was not because of her lack of money, but for principle.
Not willing to be a "vase"
Although Hollywood A-list actresses can be paid $10 million to $20 million and can negotiate a share of the film's profits, female artists still have much less opportunity to enjoy top salaries than male artists. The gender-based "income divide" has a long history in Hollywood, but it has always been ignored. But in the new generation of female artists, more and more people dare to express their dissatisfaction with gender inequality. "Hermione", a British actress of the same age as "Big Cousin", Emma Watson, has moved the issue of gender equality to a larger stage.
Emma Watson
At the age of 9, Emma got the role that all children aspire to, starring in "Hermione" in Harry Potter. Everyone seems to see the future life of this cute girl who became famous at a young age, but Emma wants to say no to everyone's "expectations". She received acceptance letters from three Ivy League universities, including Oxford University, and she chose Brown University. In 2014, Emma graduated from college majoring in English literature. In addition to this diploma, she also has yoga and meditation instructor qualifications. Also in the year of graduation, Hermione became a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, delivering a "HeForShe" ("He For Her") speech at the United Nations. This woman with the "most beautiful face in the world" is no longer just an ordinary actress in the entertainment industry.
The "He For Her" initiative aims to call on everyone, including men, to fight against gender injustice, to participate in action, and to make a difference. Emma wants to make more men aware of joining the gender equality movement "so that their daughters, sisters and mothers are free from prejudice, and their sons have the right to be vulnerable and sensitive – something they have given up on, and having a more authentic and complete version of themselves." ”
This time, she was not an actress, not a bully, but a young woman who understood what she wanted. The girl who came out of Harry Potter once again let everyone see her power.
On the screen, Emma once again brought surprises. She starred in Disney's live-action film Beauty and the Beast, which is highly anticipated. Beauty under house arrest falls in love with the beast, and this story with some "Stockholm Syndrome" metaphors seems a bit old-fashioned today. So when Emma, who is focused on feminism, announced her starring role in "Beauty and the Beast", many people were surprised. However, Emma said that she would not be willing to be a well-behaved "Disney princess" and began to "transform" the role — there would be no unrealistic corsets and shoes in her wardrobe, she was good at riding horses, trimming gardens, and repairing equipment, and the traditional deep boudoir princess seemed to have been transformed into an inventor by her.
"True Temperament, Lady"
Like the positioning of more "true temperament and female man" in real life, the screen roles of the new generation of actresses are also quietly changing. For example, in the 2016 "superhero" film, the two goddesses who were red in half the sky - "Wonder Woman" Gayle Gadot and "Joker Girl" Margot Robbie, one good and one evil, but both shined and became more popular than the protagonist.
Gayle Gadot
In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Gail Gadot fights two superheroes in a desperate fight. Wonder Woman's limelight even overshadowed two muscular men and became the audience's favorite. No wonder some netizens joked: ""BatMan" turned out to be a super long trailer for the future "Wonder Woman"! In the latest list of the 50 most influential superheroes in entertainment weekly, which is called "the most accurate in history", Wonder Woman surpassed Batman, Superman, spider-man and other popular superheroes to win the first place.
Gayle Gadot, 31, the most popular Israeli actress in Hollywood in 2016, rose to prominence in Hollywood because of her tough performances in the Fast and Furious series. But it's hard to imagine that Gayle's debut started with the title of Miss Israel in 2004 and represented Israel in the 2004 Miss Universe pageant. No one would have thought that Gayle's star path was really popular after giving birth to a child.
I could have relied on my body as a vase, but I had to play a world in an action movie. Having a representative role, but also bringing the influence of the role to life. Gail won the role of Wonder Woman, apparently not only by her natural beauty and figure, she once entered the Israeli army at the age of 20, served for two years, worked as a sports coach in the Israel Defense Forces, and also studied weapons and firearms in the army. Gail in life is an avid motorcycle rider who specializes in a variety of ball games.
For Wonder Woman, Gail gained 16 pounds and trained in swordsmanship, martial arts, and judo. Because of the exemplary role of this role in gender equality and feminism, it has promoted the further development of the feminist movement. In October 2016, Gail Gadot added a new title: United Nations Honorary Ambassador for Women's Rights.
If "Wonder Woman" is because of the slow positive energy and popularity, then "Joker Woman" combines evil and beauty without violating it.
With films such as "The Wolf of Wall Street", "Time and Space Traveler" and "Focus", margaret Robbie, who was able to cooperate with big names and join the frontline, also broke the previous image, and played the intelligent, beautiful and evil "clown girl" Harley Quinn in the anti-hero movie "Suicide Squad", in this play, Margot Robbie instantly got rid of the vase image and was stunning.
Margot Robbie
Another freshly baked star girl in 2016 is "Post-95" Brianna Hildebrancco, who played the "black queen" in "Deadpool", she came to the big screen with a strong gothic style, and her cold tomboy shape and neat hands were a blockbuster, directly overshadowing the limelight of another heroine, Morena Bacarin.
New female heroes were also born in the Star Wars film series. Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story featured a new generation of actresses like Daisy Ridley and Felicity Jones, respectively.
During the casting process for The Force Awakens, British Little Flower Dan Daisy Ridley stood out from 4500 audition actors. After the successful selection, Daisy began a difficult physical training, 3 consecutive months, 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, allowing her to lift 80 kg of weight in the later stages of training.
Daisy Ridley
Originally an unremarkable supporting character in the British drama, Rey became a self-reliant scavenger orphan on the planet Jaku, playing a key role in later resisting the hegemony of the Galactic Empire. When the film was screened, many media reporters marveled at Daisy's performance and said that she was the protagonist of the show. Compared with Princess Leia played by Carrie Fisher thirty years ago, Daisy portrays Rey with less gentle femininity, but gives her more independence and tenacity, which may be what the 30-year era span has brought to all hollywood actresses.