One Battle After One other star Teyana Taylor has addressed some main criticism of her character.
The 34-year-old actress performs Perfidia Beverly Hills within the critically acclaimed Paul Thomas Anderson movie, which additionally stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn as Bob Ferguson and Steve Lockjaw respectively.
Within the movie, Perfidia shows her sexuality whereas being objectified by each White males, and a few individuals have questioned the character’s portrayal.
Nevertheless, Teyana has insisted the thriller will get issues spot on.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, she mentioned: ‘Is that not what Black ladies undergo? We’re fetishised, particularly by creepy motherf***ers.’
She added that Black ladies are ‘the least protected individuals’, and that the movie is doing its job by encouraging troublesome conversations.
She mentioned: ‘Displaying what Black ladies undergo, that’s a tough actuality to simply accept. And this film ought to spark debate, I all the time knew it could, as a result of typically you simply bought to shake the desk.’
Within the film, Teyana’s character Perfidia is a member of the French 75 revolutionary group.
In addition to her romance with Bob, she types a bodily relationship with Steven, and Teyana beforehand insisted her character was ‘misunderstood’ however nonetheless not likable.
Talking at CinemaCon in April earlier than the movie’s premiere, she mentioned: ‘She’s all the time in survival mode. She’s very misunderstood, however she’s nonetheless egocentric.’
Co-star DiCaprio later praised his castmates for her present stealing efficiency within the film’s opening 40 minutes.
‘The echoes of [Taylor’s] character reverberate all through the whole film, and each character is emotionally scarred by Perfidia,’ he advised the New York Occasions.
‘She simply embodied that character in a approach that I don’t suppose anybody else might. We’re all left as carnage after she comes onscreen, selecting up the items of our lives.’
In the meantime, the 50-year-old Oscar winner – who performs a washed-up revolutionary residing off-grid – additionally opened up on the film coping with the present state of the world.
‘It offers with extremism on either side and the polarity of the world that we stay in the place nobody can appear to speak or get alongside,’ the star advised Metro and different press on the purple carpet of the movie’s UK premiere.
‘However the undercurrent of those characters – to not say there’s a message, however I believe Paul creates very flawed human characters which might be looking for the humanity in all of this.
‘I imply, it is a political thriller, however I don’t suppose he’s imposing his ideology on the viewers – he’s holding up a mirror to who we’re. And he wrote this 20 years in the past, which is completely fascinating that it’s popping out at this explicit time in our world’s historical past.’
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