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Michelle Rodriguez said she'll quit Fast & Furious if it doesn't 'show love' to female cast members
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MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ SPOKE out in May about how it’s a wonder that the Fast & Furious series passed the Bechdel test. For those who are unaware, the Bechdel test is an uncomplicated way of measuring female representation in movies.
To pass, a movie needs to meet the following three criteria:
If you haven’t noticed how little effort films put into making two women have a conversation about something other than a man, here are a few titles that failed: The Entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, Avatar, the Star Wars trilogy and The Little Mermaid. You can check how other films did here.
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So basically, Michelle Rodriguez is pretty annoyed at the lack of female interaction in the series.
Despite working with Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren and Gal Gadot, Rodriguez was aware that more female characters does not mean more female dialogue. She told Entertainment Weekly:
Yesterday she took to Instagram to show just how serious she was about getting realistic representation of women in the series.
She said:
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