Big screen women – Kelley Eskridge

The screenwriting life continues to have a storybook-quality wackiness that fascinates, frustrates, amuses, and occasionally depresses me, although really it’s mostly fun as long as I stop attaching to the outcome. I am learning huge lessons in loving what I’m doing in the moment, because tomorrow may never come…

But that’s a story for another time. I find I am reluctant to talk about my particular experience of this screenplay while it’s still ongoing. Not out of superstition, but because it’s too close to me. I wrote a while back about boundaries: well, this is private for me right now.

But I can tell you that there a couple of great roles for women in the script, and that I’m intensely interested in and frustrated by the absolute terror that studios have of movies with women. Who knew girls were so scary? Oh, sorry, girls aren’t scary, they just can’t open movies!

You may imagine my response to this (grin). And after you’ve had some fun with that, go read what Emma Thompson and Liane Balaban (who appear together in the upcoming film Last Chance Harvey) have to say about it.

And can I just say that Emma Thompson rocks?

Enjoy your Saturday.

4 thoughts on “Big screen women”

Yes, Emma Thompson does rock. Interesting comments.

“You have to keep telling the stories…We’ll get there.”

And so will you.

Thanks so much for the link. I totally believe that we can build the women’s market for films if we get out there and support them regularly. If you are interested, I publish a weekly newsletter (which you can sign up for on the site) that lists all women centric movies opening.

Thanks for your work.

Melissa

Melissa, welcome! I love what you’re doing with Women & Hollywood, it’s been a breath of fresh air for me (although wow, there is so much to get mad about, no?).