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Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

Sunday 17 December 2006, by Webmaster

Sarah Michelle Gellar has criticized Hollywood for not creating enough good leading roles for women.

The 29-year-old actress - who shot to fame in cult TV series ’Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ - insists too many scriptwriters in Tinseltown refuse to make a female character the lead in their screenplays.

Sarah prefers Asian cinema because the films often have strong women.

She said: "I’ve always been fascinated with Asian movies. I love that women can play a lead. There are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out and be heroic, be the centrepiece."

Sarah, who is married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr., has starred in the US remake of Japanese horror film ’The Grudge’ and the sequel ’The Grudge 2’.


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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

    17 December 2006 16:37, by Anonymous

    "insists too many scriptwriters in Tinseltown refuse to make a female character the lead in their screenplays."

    Way to go SMIDGE ,just keep making these sweeping brushstrokes about screen writers and you be solitifying your reputation. "Sarah Michelle Gellar? dont go there"

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

    18 December 2006 00:51, by Anonymous
    I’m thinking about the number of movies I’ve seen over the past few years with powerhouse performances from women in the lead. I don’t think for a moment there’s a problem with screenwriters and scripts. The problem is with actresses like SMG with little acting talent who think with the "right" script, they’ll win an oscar and make $20M a film.

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

    18 December 2006 06:44, by Anonymous
    It may not be the best career move but she’s right.

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

    18 December 2006 20:57, by Tehom

    Sarah sometimes has intelligent comments, but here she is completely wrong. One hundred and eighty degrees wrong.

    If anything, Hollywood bends over backwards to show strong women at every opportunity. And SMG ("Buffy") is the last person who ought to be saying otherwise. She has to know that that’s nonsense.

    Unless by "too many scriptwriters" she means that 1% of them are holding out against the trend and she thinks it should be 0.1%, or 0%.

  • Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Hollywood frustration

    27 March 2007 19:47, by Anonymous

    All you film stars here on this posting board disagree with SMG, because all of you are out there and really know what is going on in Hollywood, and what it takes to get a movie made????

    Pa-leeeze. Sarah is a person, she is allowed to make comments and remarks anytime she wants about the business she works in, as I am sure all of you do about your jobs. AND, if you were an actual fan of hers, you’d also know these particular comments were taken out of context. Yeesh.

    Oh and the person who referred to SMG as "SMIDGE" with the "Don’t go there". What the hell is that all about? I despise people who claim to "loathe" a particular celebrity - and then goes to all the sites that honor that celebrity - just to tear them down. Immature and pathetic.

    And, for the record, Sarah WILL BE winning an Oscar in the very near future, I hope all you detractors out there don’t choke when she does. He who laughs last........