Q&A: 'Civil War' director Alex Garland on why writing female leads is less boring than writing for men

Q&A: ' Civil War ' director Alex Garland on why writing female leads is less boring than writing for men | CBC News LoadedQ&A: ' Civil War ' director Alex Garland on why writing female leads is less boring than writing for men

Alex Garland: Uncomfortable. I think it's complicated. That's actually a really nuanced question, and in some ways, I think it's undemocratic that the same choice arrives four years later. I think something should have shifted for lots of different reasons.... AG: It's not very hard at all, because America is just like any other large state. I think this is something often people don't understand. If you live in the West, you understand it. From the outside, of course, the West can look so wealthy in a way, just so wealthy, which of course it is, but the wealth is concentrated. It's not broadly spread. And there are areas of really extreme poverty in America, and in my country, too, and in all of these Western countries.

But, I was born in 1970, I'm in my mid 50s. In the period of time I grew up and was watching films, every film pretty much had a male lead. And ... it's not really a political act on my part. It's actually just faintly boring to write it as a guy because that's all I used to see. So in some ways, I'm sitting down to write this story, and I could write Lee as a bloke, or I could write him as a woman, and I just feel very slightly more bored by the idea of him being a man.

EG: What's it like to see how close they are as partners on the day ? That is a fearsome scene, and I just wonder what that was like, to see them go from people who love each other to antagonists in front of your camera?

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