How did you feel about the controversy aroused by your role in Juno?
I was like, you know what? You all need to calm down. People are so black and white about this. Because she kept the baby everybody said the film was against abortion. But if she'd had an abortion everybody would have been like, "Oh my God". I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do – go back to clothes hangers?
What do you think of the way women are treated in the movie business?
I think it's a total drag. I've been lucky to get interesting parts but there are still not that many out there for women. And everybody is so critical of women. If there's a movie starring a man that tanks, then I don't see an article about the fact that the movie starred a man and that must be why it bombed. Then a film comes out where a woman is in the lead, or a movie comes out where a bunch of girls are roller derbying, and it doesn't make much money and you see articles about how women can't carry a film.
Love. Her.
H/T AfterEllen and Feministing
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Haven't seen Whip It, but have loved her ever since the scene in Hard Candy where she says (something like) "y'know what I said about not having other people make your drinks? That's good advice for everybody," to the would-be statutory rapist she's just drugged and tied to a chair. I'm still having trouble forgiving Catherine Keener for torturing her to death in An American Crime, though...
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