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The promotion for Birds of Prey is amping up. The upcoming DC movie includes a female ensemble of kickass heroes and one morally ambiguous Harley Quinn. Director Cathy Yan has been super excited for this film during the press tour and she’s expressed her connection to the movie and Christina Hodson’s script:
“To me, the story is super compelling and personal to me because it is about emancipation, about women sort almost being competitive with one another and bringing each other down. But also because of our own inabilities, I think to feel so powerless in the stranglehold that is the patriarchy. I feel like I very much have gone through that arc myself…And I’ve seen it, especially I think set against the backdrop of like ‘Me Too’ and what has been happening in our industry in the last few years. So, that definitely infiltrated its way into my pitch as well. So that for me this film was so much more than a superhero film about first girl gang film or any of that. But it really has a compelling narrative and theme to it is very, very personal to me.”
Yan’s first project is Dead Pigs and besides that, she’s a relatively new director on the scene. This didn’t stop Margot Robbie from championing for her to head the Birds of Prey film:
“Kathy gave the best pitch. She came in, she understood the piece, she elevated the ideas that we’d been working on and kind of took them to a place. And that’s kind of what you need your director to do, to take what you have and then elevate it to another level. And she did that. And I remember writing copious notes every time we spoke to someone, and Kathy came in and my page was like just a big smiley face. I was just like, ‘It’s perfect. She’s perfect for it.’ So it was really exciting, that initial conversation.”
Are you excited for Birds of Prey?
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