The Women is touting its all female cast as a victory for the gender, and certainly hopes that it will attract a big audience out of the 51% of the population it represents. However "chick flick" queen Meg Ryan has no ill feelings towards the other
Meg Ryan One of The Women
"It's important to be careful of boys vs. girls," Ryan said. "I get a lot of that, was it different to work with all women or a female director? I think ideally, and I think it is true, gender is more fluid than that. I've worked with male directors with very pronounced feminine aspects to them and women who are very masculine in certain ways. I like the interchange, this balance, that creative people have. It's so much about who you're with and not the gender. I think it's important to distinguish. We're not anti-male. We love them."
This all-girl aesthetic serves The Women as a story of their role in relationships. Ryan's character discovers her husband is having an affair and must reassess herself and decide whether or not to forgive him.
The Women
The Women
"[Writer/director] Diane [English] and I talked a lot about her transition in the movie. She's somebody whose life is falling apart all around her. She thinks its going perfectly but she's asleep to a lot of it. I liked making her culpable in that way in that she's not a perfect friend, though she thinks she is, and she's not a perfect wife, although she thinks she is. She's somebody who isn't coming through for herself or anyone else. By that point in the movie, she's just frustrated with the whole thing and throws it away."
Based in the 1939 movie, The Women has been updated to represent the modern female. "There are certain observations that I thought were interesting in the movie. Sometimes we disagreed on whether she should stay or go in the marriage. One thing from reading the script I appreciated, Diane was trying to make a case for both with the X factor being the fact that she was in love with her husband. When this occurs in a woman's life, it's an enormous thing to happen. Your husband is cheating on you. What do you do? Who are you allies? Who comes to your aid? All of these things are relevant and equally true now. It's just a different observation on an age-old trouble."
The Women
The Women
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