James Cameron Doubles Down on Controversial 'Wonder Woman' Comments
by EG
James Cameron, director of The Terminator, recently reiterated comments he made weeks ago, when he said that this summer's hit Wonder Woman was a "step backwards" for women in film. The comments didn't sit well with the film's director, Patty Jenkins, or fans who saw Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman as a ground-breakingly empowered female lead character. Cameron, it seems, wants credit for creating the original empowered female hero in Linda Hamilton's supporting role (behind Arnold Schwarzenegger's lead) in The Terminator 2. He went on to explain that Gal Gadot is too attractive, and her Wonder Woman costume too "form-fitting," to qualify her as an innovative feminist role model. We're predicting that these new comments will not go over well, either.
Via Page Six.
“Wonder Woman” still isn’t wonderful to James Cameron.
The director, who called the female-starring and -directed film a “step backwards,” still feels the same way.
“Yes, I’ll stand by that. I mean, [Gal Gadot] was Miss Israel, and she was wearing a kind of bustier costume that was very form-fitting. She’s absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. To me, that’s not breaking ground,” Cameron told The Hollywood Reporter.
“They had Raquel Welch doing stuff like that in the ’60s. It was all in a context of talking about why [“Terminator” character] Sarah Connor — what Linda [Hamilton] created in 1991 — was, if not ahead of its time, at least a breakthrough in its time. I don’t think it was really ahead of its time because we’re still not [giving women these types of roles].”
“Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins later fired back at Cameron, defending Gadot’s portrayal by saying not every female character has to look “hard, troubled and tough to be strong.” Cameron responded by telling the magazine that Hamilton was never “treated as a sex object.”
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