Women Who Rock In Sci-fy

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In Ballroom 20 today, EW hosted an interesting panel about women in the Sci-fy genre. The panel featured Jena Malone from “Sucker Punch,” Ellen Wong and Mary Elizabeth WInstead from “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Elizabeth Mitchell from “V,” and Anna Torv from Fringe.

These women are the up-and-coming stars of Sci-fy and action, so they shared some insight in the direction of these genres and how women’s parts are changing within them. Women aren’t damsels in the distress anymore, but action heroes.

Elizabeth Mitchell summed up the panel best in that she believes that the genre of Sci-Fi have always created great strong female characters, and that’s why she enjoys working in that genre so much.

Jena Malone talked about clichés female characters have, about not having layers to a part. Mary Elizabeth Winstead then chimed in that string women characters are often written and portrayed as “butchy,” that a strong woman losses her femininity, and that it is refreshing to find a string female character that still has her feminine attributes.

Anna Torv talked about her character Olivia on Fox’s Fringe, and wish that she could take strength from her character, but not before taking the weight of the world of Olivia’s shoulders.

The panel clearly wanted to point out the limited choice of strong female characters in Hollywood, but that the tides are slowly changing as shown by these five women and the characters that they play.

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