Andie MacDowell on Sexism in Hollywood: How Dare You?

[@victoriac7216]

Your interviews are amazing Sam, please for the love of god never drop this show

[@EricMussBarnes]

I've written 5 novels in the last 20 years. My first novel, _The Gothic Rainbow_ is a vampire story. One of the lead vampire characters, Camillia DuBois, is based on Andie MacDowell. I never mention Andie MacDowell anywhere in the story, but in my mind, Camillia looks and speaks like Andie. To this day, 20 year later, I still think Andie MacDowell is one of the most strikingly beautiful women in the world. I'd cast her in a movie of my book before I even thought about male leads.

[@Adamkalb1]

I know plenty of actors (mostly voice actors) that I would love to use as a lead or have been a lead in a film or a TV show! Kelsey Abbott, Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Aniston, Ashleigh Ball, Kathleen Barr, Stephanie Beatriz, Christine Marie Cabanos, Dove Cameron, Aimee Carrero, Daveigh Chase, Courtney Cox, Joan Cusack, Elizabeth Daily, Grey DeLisile, Loretta Devine, Michaela Dietz, Dakota & Elle Fanning, Sarah Hyland, Tajja Isen, Ashley Johnson, Rashida Jones, Lisa Kudrow, Mila Kunis, Carolyn Lawrence, Amanda Leighton, Andrea Libman, Rachael MacFarlane, Debra Messing, Hayden Panettiere, Amy Poehler, Michelle Rodriguez, Kristen Schaal, Tabitha Saint Germain, Stephanie Sheh, Yeardley Smith, Brenda Song, Anna Grace Stewart, Tara Strong, Cree Summer, Ashley Tisdale, Cydney Trent, Alana Ubach, Lisa Vischer, Ming-Na Wen, Cathy Weseluck, April Winchell, and Ariel Winter are all female leading actors that we have to whom I am attached that I know plenty enjoyed to see or hear in the past. I went through more than half the alphabet on purpose. If I mentioned my most favorite female supporting actors, I would be making this comment all day and you would be here reading it all the next day. December 6, 2020, 2:00am

[@IanBrownMakeUpArtist]

She’s really intriguing to listen to. She comes across as a deeply thoughtful and centred individual. Very inspiring.

[@ragemodels]

@IAN SO TRUE !!! BEAUTIFULLY SAID !!!❤🙏❤

[@Filmpilot]

This woman is magnificent and could play “and carry” Lead actor in any film, period..

[@theBishopmattp]

John Sarviss this is a sexist comment. Do you not think she can play and carry a lead that is fit for a male? Isnt this what the world is coming to? Ignoring facts and just making shit up as we please?

[@Filmpilot]

TruCon78 Step up.i have yet to see your work.

[@jesuswesleyramirez4165]

@@theBishopmattp way to make shit up, poor soul

[@scotthaynes5240]

She was so bad in Greystoke 1984 - they had to have her voice dubbed.

[@fw1421]

If Andie is in it,I’ll see it. She is a wonderful actress.❤️❤️❤️

[@karynb7781]

You made the hair on the back of my head literally stand up. I think that perpetuation is how they justify paying men more. It's just sick & perverted. Having more women directors, producers, and writers will surely lead to stronger women lead roles and better pay for actresses. As a female lead, you often 'steal the scene' and often 'steal the show'. Your work speaks for itself.

[@foresterboy2011]

The trouble is Karyn B is that with human nature, anything we (both sexes) find that when something threatens us we retaliate in different ways. Men have always known that women are the stronger sex in many ways, not just physical, and that's why, I think, women have always been down trodden in all aspects. I'm a guy and I know that women should have the more influential rolls because a woman will not throw her weight around in the work place letting everyone know "I'm the boss" but instead deal with each issue accordingly. You girls were born to multi task and thats why you should have the better if not equal tasks and pay. I'm not a weak person mentally but I definitely think a woman makes a better boss.

[@annieirish2229]

@@foresterboy2011 Do you really believe women are physically stronger than men? Also I have had much better experience with men being the boss than women but I guess it really depends on the individual to be fair.

[@blue3katrin]

@@annieirish2229 It absolutely depends on the individual

[@annieirish2229]

@@blue3katrin 100%. Karen and John want to make it all about male vs females and that is absurd!!

[@Jocelyn_Jade]

Well she’s right about that theory existing. That’s why a majority of movies and games up until fairly recently had *mainly* male protagonists.

[@tameshewolf]

Lovely interview! She spoke so well and so openly!

[@Caprizonica]

Funny how America thinks that way when we don't even do that in Latin America where TV stories are about women for women.

[@physiotherapistpaulina9340]

When a talented and beautiful woman like this is being rejected, how do the rest of us women stand a chance in society? we need to change this ladies! speak out like she has.............

[@dbj1852]

I love Andie MacDowell she is great!

[@kurtdanielson9862]

I am of the theory if you make a good movie, people will show up. Many top leading men have stinker movie's no one wants to see.

[@lees2708]

It is a fight being won by women like Andie M. As a male writer, I depend on strong women to make scripts worthy of public consumption.

[@frawgy]

I love how she pronounces her “G’”s.

[@DiamondLil]

Hollywood's "Golden Years" were FILLED with strong female leads who were recognized as giant box office draws: Kate Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Carole Lombard. Movies were made around those women and people flocked to them. When did Hollywood decide the women were only good for set dressing?

[@tulipchic34]

As a kid l loved female lead films and still do

[@elainemcgovern1430]

She speaks so well on this subject

[@seop1721]

Another aspect of a kind of discrimination is with voices. I recall a famous English advert, for a skin cream or soap, with Andie, in which - if memory serves - they dubbed her voice. She speaks English, but I was pretty sure her voice was dubbed. That was the common comment at the time.

[@mariotorresgo]

I thought that before and I don't know if it has to do with her accent in that particular case, maybe they didn't feel it was "right", but she's an actress, she probably can change/adjust it to a more standard accent when needed. But, last mexican to win Miss Universe was or is also the image of L'Oreal in Mexico and they dub her commercials all the time. I'm friends with her cousin, so when I asked him why do they do that or do they really think we can tell her voice apart, he told me in her case it's because the commercial shoots for a day, to make her come back for a second day to the ADR studio to dub her lines would cost the company twice as much, so they prefer to bring her only for one day and then hire a cheaper voice actress to do the additional narrations.

[@seop1721]

Mario T I personally think that if a person is endorsing a product, they should use their voice. Except when they have to translate it for a foreign market. I actually felt that the advert lost credibility as a result. It was rather silly.

[@sherry3612]

Describes politicians perfectly. “If they could step outside themselves and see how ugly that is.”!

[@evesapple]

It's funny- when you hear stories like this, you would imagine the Hollywood movies in the 1940's-50's were absolutely terrible in terms of how sexist they must be. They're actually not- Bette Davis? Rosalind Russell? Katharine Hepburn? It's like the men she's talking about had never heard of these actresses, or films such as I don't know... 'The Women.' Bizarre.

[@anarcho-communist11]

Narcissism will make a person delusional

[@skimmynyc6165]

She looks so beautiful, elegant and natural; not botoxed and plumped up.

[@atreju305]

Yes!!! A fresh breeze of air these days! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Andreea05990]

She’s great

[@sarahjoyce3]

Andie Macdowell is dope

[@hyperchord]

Narrator: They don't

[@HazeGrayQM2]

As a man that was born in 1962, I have seen many shows and movies that were led by women. Police Woman, Cagney & Lacey, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, Bewitched, Get Christy Love, Carrie, Silkwood, and many others. This notion that men don't watch women as leads is false and political. It's nonsense.

[@MusicIan423]

Now I question the amount of sexism in the developed world, but this is one of the clear examples of it.

[@kristeandreatujague7016]

I can say unequivocally that I have never ever gone to see a movie based on the leading man. EVER. Not ever, not once. Also, I will see a movie if Andie Macdowell is in it. I saw Ready or Not at the cinema just for her. 💕

[@karenboromeo5752]

Great actress anf smart lady. Funny l havnt heard her REAL voice before. Very country and higher pitched than in her movies. Love her honesty too.

[@jobecker4381]

that's hilarious, everyone knows you only go to see the female lead

[@villanessa]

Not true at all. I go to the movies to see who the female leads are. When they're all men in the cast I get so bored.

[@nathaliedufour3891]

Nowadays, our daughters are toppling over all those sexist theories and behaviors :))

[@aquickstory2196]

the same with racism. if it is ok with some it is ok with all. privately or publicly. we hold onto racism because it gives life and lies to our ego.

[@NeyooxetuseiDreamer]

she's right.

[@lindabb7064]

Those guys don't love their daughters, mother, or wives. It's all about how those women in their lives made them look (good)

[@connshawnery6489]

I like to say a prayer and drink to world peace

[@TacShooter]

This must have happened before Aliens.

[@emilyblunt4241]

TacShooter the female lead in aliens was written as a male lead but the actress auditioned for that role & they changed it to a female role

[@mmc1086]

Weird theory. I feel attached to male and female characters.

[@wcg19891]

I’d watch Andie Macdowell in anything she does. She’s fantastic.

[@ragemodels]

#AndieMcdowell incredible Woman and brilliant Actor !!! I no longer watch Movies because Movies dont have amazing Actors like her anymore !!!

[@dodgedabullet670]

PUlease! You got roles based on your looks....don't talk about sexism when you use it to climb in the entertainment field!

[@thecreatonaut6165]

Trivia question. What movie was she in that had this line? "She touched my peppy"

[@chantalfinn6173]

Multiplicity

[@Gogs126]

Hear hear Andie!!

[@Saybleu]

🎻🎻🎻🎻 I didn’t go to see GROUNDHOG DAY because of you Andie…….

[@LemonCat1000]

Love 💞 that lady! Beautiful inside and out! ❣️

[@egonfang]

Statics are left out of the argument.

[@michaelreilly3513]

Statics :the branch of mechanics concerned with bodies at rest and forces in equilibrium, or lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in an undesirable or uninteresting way, or concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium or (of an electric charge) having gathered on or in an object that cannot conduct a current or (of a memory or store) not needing to be periodically refreshed by an applied voltage or crackling or hissing noises on a telephone, radio, or other telecommunication system. Which static were you referring to Darn Flyer?

[@genesispuredeaf2390]

How dare you make it about you, Andie? You used the word narcissistic and yet you are guilty as all get out of making it all about Andie 24/7. Reality check #1: I like the characters that you play much more than I like you, the passive aggressive man-hater. Reality check #2: if the industry is wrong, then prove the theory as wrong by stepping away from the whiny shame/blame role but instead make a movie using female characters as the lead.

[@ziggy33399]

Inadvertently, I’ve never watched a movie 🍿 because of one man ~ I HAVE watched for a good actress (Er, female actor). Females are more pleasant to watch. That’s a fact. (With exception of gays, I suppose). I don’t really know.

[@Mkundera]

OMG, in most movies the male lead does make the movie. Get over it. Sam Jones' crocodile tears reaction was a howler. haha

[@emmasayers7576]

People go to see films to see men and identify with male protagonists, because these are the kind of films that get made. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If film scripts would just stop portraying women in this secondary light and start portraying interesting characters that yes, happen to be female, we might start going to see them! Oh and please, can we have some more women protagonists whose strength is not sexualised, please? More Sarah Connors and Ripleys!

[@theBishopmattp]

Sounds to me like the producer she is referring to had collected the proper data and came to this conclusion. You cant tell me that as a businessman he did not analyze what sells and what doesnt. She likes to call this a theory (her words). I would like to hear his side of the story. I guarantee he can prove by the numbers that his claim is supported. Why is it that I walk into a Mac or Ulta store and all the advertisements are women, hmmm...? Maybe because the business "people" did a lil research and found that it would be a waste of advertising dollars to showcase men in their ads. So this must be a theory that men arent worthy enough to purchase makeup? No, its just fact and because it doesnt work in her favor its a sexist theory. Sounds like a tilted perspective to me.

[@mariotorresgo]

That may be true for other industries but in the movie business (at least from the information I've read in articles or seen in interviews) movies since the 70's or 80's to just a few years ago were made and advertised with the 18 to 49 year old male demographic in mind. That's why blockbusters or the movies with the biggest budget were action movies, with a male lead, women only as a love interest, etc. They thought that was what sold movie tickets and maybe back then it was, but it stayed as the norm for so much time. Aside from Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (which I think was an exception at the time) or Julia Roberts, who was the highest paid actress 15 years ago (starring in some romantic comedies which, although well renowned, aren't comparable in budget or scope with action or franchise movies) a lot of years had to pass for the industry to notice that female leads can carry franchise movies (females were then neglected to indie films or rom-coms because for them to carry a 150 million movie was unthinkable). It wasn't until Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games and the like that hollywood producers started seeing female leads as bankable, so now you have Star Wars and others lead by female characters.

[@evesapple]

@@mariotorresgo That makes sense- especially when you watch the movies before the 70's. You would think that those movies must have been incredible sexist, but Im always surprised at how many strong female characters there are in them-I think there was just a bad period for women in movies, but thankfully we're out of it now.