According to a new study from The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, 2019 saw just as many female lead characters in family films as male lead characters.
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Unfortunately, most of those lead characters are played by men.
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"Alcina" fittingly featured two strong women as its lead characters.
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Instead, the series excels in showing the many imperfections of its lead characters.
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One of its lead characters, Leymah Gbowee, won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Maia is a somewhat odd choice to be one of the show's lead characters.
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The lead characters in Acrimony, A Fall from Grace, Why Did I Get Married?
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The book is set in the 1950s, and its lead characters are all black.
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I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be.
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Despite being one of the lead characters in The Force Awakens, Rey was conspicuously absent.
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For all practical purposes, the series changed not just its focus but its lead characters.
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The long-running "Big Bang Theory" and "Bones" have lead characters with ambiguous autistic qualities.
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The lead characters in some of the decade's most successful films still smoke on-screen.
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An earlier version of this review misspelled the name of one of the lead characters.
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The gift of the film is its insistence on the humanity of its lead characters.
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The lead characters are constantly broke, their relationships are unstable, and they have clueless white friends.
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In The Archies, real-life bands like CHVRCHES and The Monkees will run into the lead characters.
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But is Maui, one of the lead characters of the upcoming Disney animated movie Moana, too fat?
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Even with the entire cast of Black Panther, the MCU still centers disproportionately around white lead characters.
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The new film sees that premise reversed, with the lead characters journeying into the game's fantastical world.
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Only 1.4 percent of lead characters in a sample of studio films released in 2014 were Asian.
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The lead characters in "The Shape of Water" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," however, are women.
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Bubbles are compelling drama, in which the lead characters are always racing excitedly toward a sudden fall.
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The script also takes so many narrative shortcuts that the lead characters are reduced to brush strokes.
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When Pennywise was unleashed upon the town, we understood exactly what that meant for our lead characters.
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"I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be," Jenkins wrote.
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I think that's a beautiful character to portray – especially nowadays that we don't have many female lead characters.
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Plus, the lead characters lack the chemistry and charisma of original stars like Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens.
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And the bittersweet "San Junipero" sends its lead characters (Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) back to 1987.
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Amanda Hess writes that the new Netflix drama "Girlboss" will challenge TV's "likability" requirement for female lead characters.
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A 1961 film adaption starred a young Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the lead characters Maria and Tony.
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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows introduces two new lead characters, and a whole host of hideous creatures to run away from.
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As Pretty Little Liars reaches its series finale, will we finally learn who has been tormenting the lead characters?
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There's a lot of complicated stuff going on and a lot of contempt in our lead characters' respective hearts.
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Our sources say Bailey plays a police officer who had a past relationship with one of the lead characters.
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But it also devoted an entire episode to veterans and PTSD that left its lead characters on the sidelines.
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The Fight's biggest failure is that Leaf is unable to convey his lead characters' historical complexity on the stage.
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I even tolerated Netflix's Love (Season 1, at least), despite my actual hatred for the lead characters Gus and Mickey.
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And while plenty of network shows feature diversity in their lead characters, Netflix is often ahead of the inclusivity curve.
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The set also debuts seven LEGO mini figures for the six lead characters, as well as Central Perk's barista, Gunther.
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Both of its lead characters come from religious backgrounds, and spirituality plays a big part in both of their lives.
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Just having two gay lead characters, or showing a gay kiss on television was considered risky in the late 1990s.
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As often happens in a sequel, the lead characters eventually split up and have to embark on their own journeys.
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Through four seasons, he's proved to be one of the few lead characters who actually has a modicum of integrity.
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With shows like Aziz Ansari's Master of None, are white audiences getting to see a new version of lead characters?
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The lead characters are women looking to make their way in an environment that is often hard, brutal and uncaring.
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Of the 26.1 percent of lead or co-lead characters who are people of color, only 0.8% are Native American.
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No matter what it means, I am all about a good horror movie by a Black director with Black lead characters!
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Though the lead characters are American, the distinct British charm that defined Richard Curtis' original still runs through this new adaptation.
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Simultaneously, we see Greg and Sophie, the lead characters from The Romanoffs' season premiere, "The Violet Hour," descend the opposite escalator.
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Here, the lead characters are those whose society has dubbed them undesirable, who have a plague threatening to wipe them out.
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The story does follow a relatively predictable path at first, outlining the lead characters' differentials in politics and access to power.
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A brief synopsis of the script involves two male lead characters who are looking to break into the Hollywood film industry.
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"I think it's amazing that it's six lead characters with different backgrounds and from different parts of our lives," Sulkin explains.
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One of the lead characters in "A Woman of No Importance" is Lady Hunstanton, named after the Norfolk town, he said.
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But only two of the representatives remarked that comics with nonwhite lead characters did not sell well for them, he said.
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WEEKEND ARTS A film review on Friday about "Grave of the Fireflies" misspelled the name of one of the lead characters.
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I was also a little mystified for a moment over EMS starring in 'Mad Max' (oh, I mean "lead characters," sorry).
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"The findings show that while shooter and adventure games conform to the conventional pattern where female and ethnic characters contribute negatively to sales, RPGs (role-playing games) favor the inclusion of female lead characters and action games favor the inclusion of ethnic lead characters," she said in the report entitled 'Video Game Sales: Does Diversity Pay?
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But part of that is that my investment in the lead characters doesn't necessarily mean I want to protect them from harm.
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The lead characters are clad in "plot armour"; bullets always miss them, villains opt for mercy rather than execution and so on.
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The lead characters, in full costume, took to the field to open the game, showing off their impressive pitching and batting skills.
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"I just think it was two interesting people that happen to have that type," Gardell told People of Mike & Molly's lead characters.
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But Shannara goes in the opposite direction, with virtually all the lead characters dragging their feet as they're forced to fight evil.
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There's only one woman among the lead characters, and another three playing supporting characters (two of which were villains, because of course).
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Delusion is an interactive, immersive theater experience: audiences step into an decrepit, abandoned mansion and assume the role of the lead characters.
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Plus, the lead characters — ambitious Nini, tortured Ricky, and self-assured EJ — lack the chemistry and charisma of Efron, Hudgens, and crew.
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First, because it deposits its lead characters, played by Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, in the past, 1987 to be precise.
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But what is paradise for some is a political prison for others, and that world is where the movie's lead characters meet.
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These are the case's lead characters: Bill Cosby The groundbreaking performer has fallen far since his days of international fame and acclaim.
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The lead characters are a Norwegian couple who had Middle East experience and thought they might be able to broker an agreement.
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The pace is leisurely, the humor likable (until it proves a liability), and its two lead characters are illustrated with generous precision.
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The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), former star of a Western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt).
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And the relationship between the two lead characters I find to be truly beautiful — one of the most beautiful marriages in modern cinema.
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For its first 50 minutes or so, following a traumatic experience that its lead characters aren't too eager to contend with, "Dude" meanders.
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco is refreshingly profound in its exploration of the physical and emotional closeness of its lead characters.
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Beyond writing and singing "Can't Stop the Feeling" for the film, Timberlake was its executive music producer and voiced one of its lead characters.
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This a movie where the two lead characters hoof their way through a planetarium and finish by dancing weightlessly among the domed-in stars.
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The lead characters need each other in some way, yet romance or closeness is not a reprieve but a risk in this precarious environment.
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It's golf, a sport where almost every major offers a different cast of lead characters, and nobody takes the starring role more than occasionally.
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Despite the appalling circumstances and events it depicts, the movie's plain and unstinting affection for its lead characters gives "Parched" a frequently buoyant tone.
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"'Game of Thrones' is a poster child for breaking the rules in terms of storytelling and killing off lead characters with reckless abandon," he said.
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"They had the kind of intimacy only strangers can have," said Mann, alluding to the mutual respect that his lead characters share for one another.
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Bryan: The beauty of this sequence was how it acknowledged and embraced a quality that has all but disappeared from the show's lead characters: vulnerability.
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Of all three lead characters in Marvel's Netflix franchise, Danny Rand could very well be the most difficult to connect with for the average viewer.
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In it, Castro is wearing a "Frozen" T-shirt, in which Elsa and Anna, two of the film's lead characters, gaze happily into the distance.
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Gleb and I are doing a dance to a song from Little Shop of Horrors, and we'll be playing the lead characters from the show.
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That tension played out within the lead characters' relationship, but also amazingly in Kahiru's decision to sue for the film to be shown in Kenya.
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The episode describes polycythemia vera, and depicts a blood clot one of General Hospital's lead characters, Anna Devane, experienced as a consequence of the cancer.
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"The avenging-women are strong female lead characters who actively disobey the patriarchal culture of disarmament, in an apparently feminist display of empowerment," she writes.
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The last season added two lead characters in Jon Bernthal's Punisher and Élodie Yung's Elektra, and retained the first season's pulverizing martial-arts-inspired violence.
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The airplane scene in Bridesmaids serves as a breaking point in the lead characters' friendship and a sort of romance for Melissa McCarthy's character Megan.
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The villainous Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) was mercilessly beating one of our lead characters to death without the show revealing who suffered the grisly fate.
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When adult Kate Pearson (Chrissy Metz) is singing at an L.A. bar in "Manny-Splendored Thing," the episode gives us multiple flashbacks to our lead characters.
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I can rattle off many unexceptional white lead characters like Rory Gilmore, Joey Potter, Torrance Shipman, Bella Swan, or Marissa Cooper, just to name a few.
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While some classic movies are best known for their most memorable quotes or lead characters, others are just as beloved for their soundtracks and musical scores.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the fool was able to address social and political realities in ways that the lead characters rarely could -- using humor as his shield.
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While the casting director thought Cher was talented enough to play either of the lead characters, Scott didn't think she'd bring the right amount of humor.
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In an interview in New York, Mr. Black discussed a scene involving the first meeting of the lead characters and also answered questions about his film.
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In myth, literature, and films of the past, doors or portals lead characters and viewers to something fantastical, usually with a problem that had an endpoint.
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For example, in recent films such as Love Simon, Alex Strangelove, and Call Me by Your Name, white lead characters overcome homophobia through love and compassion.
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"It was important to us to have queer lead characters who were making jokes, and whose queerness was never the butt of the joke," said Aniello.
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That role is usually reserved for the friendship between our three lead characters, and for their attempts to climb their career ladders and excel at their work.
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The Singaporean actress Tan Kheng Hua, who plays the mother of one of the lead characters, countered that the film was a reflection of Kwan's "specific perspective".
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The Science Museum of Minnesota's website crashed shortly after it restocked a hoodie worn by one of the lead characters in the second season of Stranger Things.
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They don't ever put women who look like myself, or men with my skin color, as the lead characters in novelas — soap operas — movies, or magazine covers.
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And that's why writing Superb is so important because we have two teenagers who are lead characters, but they actually talk like teenagers and act like teenagers.
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Frank Vincent won't get to play his final movie role, but he'll still be all over the project ... through the names of the film's 2 lead characters.
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It's fitting that Cassidy is one of the last vampire lead characters on television, because he's the only one real enough to banish the bloodsuckers for good.
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Alex Shephard: Game of Thrones has consistently beaten us over the head with the idea that the fathers of its lead characters are not examples to follow.
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TIME deemed the lead characters to be so unappealing that it compared the film to a hypothetical one about a toxic waste-dumper and a terrorist hijacker.
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A surreal, all but indescribable DIY web series about kindness, friendship, and two lead characters who look like, but are legally distinct from, Batman and Spider-Man.
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The only characters that are troubled by it are the lead characters, because their notions of masculinity and how they see themselves are threatened by the kiss.
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The trailer, created by the young director Mike Buonaiuto, has its flaws, but there is something magical about its matter-of-fact handling of the lead characters.
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We trust that she likes the same shows we do, like Grey's Anatomy and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and to name her cats after the lead characters.
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The plot is based off Margaret Atwood's acclaimed 1985 novel of the same name, and the lead characters are played by Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Alexis Bledel.
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Women of color have to be exceptional just to be included, and they are still overshadowed by lead characters who are presented as stimulating just because they showed up.
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Game of Thrones is all about that, and it's not just that the plot tends to lead characters around in circles (looking at you, Arya, and you, the Hound).
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The problem is that I am simply tired of supporting Caucasian lead characters as if there is any less validity to the triumphs and downfalls of my own life.
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And in an industry where women are still underrepresented on screen, these movies flip the script, not just making women the lead characters but edging the men out entirely.
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In the docs -- obtained by TMZ -- the judge spells it out pretty clearly -- the tales of 2 Christs aren't similar at all ... other than the lead characters being black.
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Speechless sets itself apart about three minutes into its first episode, and not just because one of its lead characters has a disability (though that's definitely part of it).
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Channeling the animated film's lead characters, Gomez and her sister walked hand-in-hand in matching ensembles designed by Marc Jacobs — complete with sequined feathered capes and double braids.
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And with audiences increasingly inclined to stay home and watch Netflix, producing movies featuring lead characters with different skin colors, genders and sexualities is proving to be good business.
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Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams), two fast blue-collar girls, turned up at the local hangout as blind dates for Richie Cunningham and Fonzie, the two lead characters.
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The Starz series "Vida" tackled gentrification in its first season — and was boycotted by the activist group Defend Boyle Heights for making one of its lead characters a member.
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Olivia Colman and Sian Clifford, both of whom were nominated in supporting actress in a comedy Emmy categories, give noteworthy performances as the lead characters' godmother and sister, respectively.
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So while these characters technically pass the Vito Russo Test, they were not lead characters, and their sexuality was used as a plot device to drive the protagonists' stories.
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The ballet also shows a similarly isolated young woman (Andrea Yorita), unanswered calls from a pay phone and failures of communication, until finally the two lead characters find each other.
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Shows like Supernatural and Rizzoli & Isles have been accused of hinting at a same-sex relationship between their lead characters to entice a queer audience but never bringing them to fruition.
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While viewers had no idea what the divine pairing actually was, it was clear lead characters Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) would become that all-important duo.
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The third, second-to-last season of the Netflix-original drama "13 Reasons Why" recently aired, opening loose ends and sealing the fate of many lead characters, both beloved and hated.
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It's unusual and refreshing for a crime drama's three lead characters to be women, though "Queen of the South" might be a case of actresses being careful what they wish for.
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The explosively funny Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong voice the lead characters, and the who's-who supporting cast includes Steven Yeun, Richard E. Grant, Reggie Watts, Tig Notaro and Tessa Thompson.
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The new season sees the show's lead characters with nothing left to lose after they sacrificed families, children, innocence, dignity and even their lives, in the case of the resurrected Jon Snow.
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Her vision can be seen throughout the film, from its lack of male gaze on its lead characters, to the camera's artfully crafted romance with Harley's beloved bacon egg and cheese sandwich.
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The humor is often crass, and the lead characters have exceedingly foul mouths, but over all the series is an amusingly caustic variation on both the teenage comedy and the bromance genre.
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Two other lead characters are The Proprietor, a gun salesman who gives the other characters their weapons, and The Balladeer, the narrator who provides the background stories for each of the assassins.
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The actor is expected to take this message of peace to Davos this year, with Whitaker participating in a chat on "The New Lead Characters" and "An Insight, An Idea with Forest Whitaker".
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Adventure Time, for instance, famously gender-swapped its lead characters, Finn and Jake, to create Fionna and Cake based on drawings Bee and PuppyCat creator Natasha Allegri posted online in her spare time.
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Binge movies at home If you're looking for something to watch from home, this would be a good time to search out these films with Irish lead characters to add to your list.
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The early teasers for "Marriage Story" were released as two separate vignettes, with each of the lead characters, Charlie and Nicole (Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson), discussing what they love about the other.
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It's the follow-up to a game that was beloved in large part because of its lead characters, Max and Chloe, and yet it told a brand-new story with brand-new leads.
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The season begins six months from where it left off—a television secret for pressing the reset button—and, instead of intense acrimony, the lead characters now approach each other with a new tolerance.
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This theory could be confirmed the moment we see Sarah Paulson on set looking like Princess Ariel if she plays his Republican counterpart (her and Peters are rumored to be the two lead characters).
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Split between the vantage points of its two remaining lead characters, Noah and Helen, this episode of "The Affair" is a return to form after the strange swerve into supervillainy it suffered last week.
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But the real triumph of New Girl's season finale was that it acknowledged a truth the show's been fighting since day one: Two of its lead characters have pretty much always been in love.
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Maisel and the machine behind its marketing seems to cement the notion that Hollywood isn't ready to give way to more progressive stories, even as audiences continue to support narratives centering more diverse lead characters.
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" Jenkins also said she believes female characters "can and should be everything just like male lead characters should be" and shouted out to "the massive female audience who made the film a hit it is.
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As network television makes greater efforts to diversify its casts, CBS's pickups caused a small stir: all three of the new comedies feature white men as the lead characters; its dramas also feature male leads.
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Both lead characters have difficulty communicating the enormity of their experiences in space, and in a weird meta touch (or maybe just an imitative fallacy), their movies have communication failures as well, especially in their scripting.
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One thing we're hoping that Hollywood takes away from 2017 — other than that more women and diversity are desperately needed at all levels of the industry — is that movies featuring women as lead characters do well.
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Even when Samantha or Miranda — never Carrie or Charlotte — shared their bed with a Black or Latino suitor the lead characters' empathy or curiosity never expanded beyond stereotypical observations whispered amongst their narrow, white social circles.
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Even the NBC sitcom Mad About You had an episode in which its lead characters toyed with investing in a VR startup, ultimately putting on headsets for virtual run-ins with Christie Brinkley and Andre Agassi.
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It's like that moment in a romantic comedy when the two lead characters, after sniping at each other for most of the movie, find they have a love connection — they both would love to beat Trump.
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You don't build the kind of relationship between two lead characters for two movies and half of Infinity War only to find a way to bring the one who died back to life and just... leave it.
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Unforgettable fell short in more ways than one — despite staring two amazing actresses as lead characters — because it failed to realize most people don't get to live in a vacuum where their identities don't affect their lives.
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When he wants a brand that reflects him, he invents his own, Fucking Awesome, and builds a narrative that allows his team of FA skaters to be the lead characters in their own weird, fucked-up stories.
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We need female lead characters and female voices, not only to rectify the male skew created by centuries of gender inequality, but also because women make supreme heroes, and it is high time we recognize that fact.
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I know I brought up Game of Thrones last week, and perhaps that is an unfair comparison, but just think about the epic, tragic stakes that faced nearly all of the lead characters in that show last season.
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A brief opening shows the lead characters playing the Don Bluth arcade game Dragon's Lair — likely a signal that the show will require its heroes to delve into the Upside Down to take matters into their own hands.
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Believe it or not, the four lead characters (Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, Miranda Hobbes, and Samantha Jones) are actually pretty accurate examples of the four elements of the Zodiac (fire, earth, air, and water) and their respective vibes.
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Late Night is a workplace comedy that feels like a cousin of The Devil Wears Prada, and its greatest strength is its two lead characters, both of whom have adopted coping mechanisms while navigating a male-dominated field.
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Tarantino's love of revisionist history doesn't extend to having, say, Uma Thurman and Pam Grier (two of his former collaborators) play Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's two lead characters who fuck up some Mansonites in the end.
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Not to spoil anything, but, "Y Not" involves a bizarro, hilarious tiger sexual fantasy, a plus-size fashion hallucination that would make Alice In Wonderland's Red Queen proud, and some very fun, UnReal-ish twists for its lead characters.
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The path her Instagram feed has taken since June 2014 has reflected the arc of her lead characters — who can easily be read as avatars of Meyers herself — in a way that suggests it could inspire its own movie.
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To the soundtrack of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation," its lead characters sit down for their class photos, and the audience is greeted with protagonist Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), who slumps and sighs in exasperation, wondering if it's over yet.
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The circumstances facing the lead characters in "Passengers" underscore how all the advantages of automation lead us to make sometimes fateful decisions that inevitably come back to haunt — regardless of how seamless they may appear at the point of inception.
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Metacritic score: 72 Late Night is a workplace comedy that feels like a cousin of The Devil Wears Prada; its greatest strength is its two lead characters, both of whom have adopted coping mechanisms while navigating a male-dominated field.
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G.,' that has no female heroes or lead characters and the one female character, who is in the game backstory, but not the game itself, is a busty woman depicted on her knees groveling at the heroes' feet in admiration.
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Its two lead characters — college student Greer and Gloria Steinem analog Faith — both devote themselves to feminist activism, but over the course of the novel, it becomes clear that a fight for equality is not the only thing that motivates them.
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Every time a new show starts with two of the lead characters sharing cruel-but-flirty back-and-forths and longing stares, we know we're going to be strung along for four seasons until they eventually make out in the rain.
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America Ferrera, who plays Amy, one of Superstore's lead characters, is also directing today, so she has to alternate between playing Amy, who is leading a staff meeting in the break room, and guiding her fellow actors and the camera crew.
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While the movie also stars celebrities like Smith, as well as young actors Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott (who play lead characters Aladdin and Jasmine, respectively), Kenzari's casting seemed to inspire the most breathless takes online from fans reacting to his, well, physique.
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Some have even joked that the plotlines start to affect their real life, whether it's by deciding to start a hotation, adamantly fighting the #LawrenceHive, or dealing with their own career struggles just like the show's lead characters, Issa and Molly, do.
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She does that in her new drama, opening March 13, by studying the faces of her lead characters: a young Pennsylvania woman (Sidney Flanigan) trying to obtain a legal abortion in New York City with the help of her cousin, Skylar (Talia Ryder).
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Past action films like The Heat (2013), Atomic Blonde (2017), and Men in Black: International (2019) have cast actresses to play dynamic and multi-dimensional lead characters who can hold their own in a fight sequence — and will probably whoop your ass.
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Many of these new series have people of color and women as lead characters, in turn pushing minorities and women to the center of the writing staff, a major step forward for writers who say they have long felt like window dressing.
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But it all wraps up with an adaptation of the classic novel Red Dragon (the first story to ever feature serial killer Hannibal Lecter), and it's a great reminder of how good Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen were as the show's lead characters.
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Yet one of the most common responses to my book — sometimes meant as a compliment, sometimes a critique — is that its lead characters, a charismatic and volatile narcissist and the cripplingly anxious, morally compromised striver who becomes her confidante, are not likable.
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Before the movie's release in 1999, Mr. Adler wrote a blistering account in The New York Times about the studio executives who had optioned his book and changed the backgrounds of its lead characters, played by Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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There is no sense of individualistic discovery to shows being advertised at the Super Bowl; there is no resonance or sense of identification when the lead characters' Ghostbusters Halloween costumes are being used as a marketing point, starting with the first publicity stills and trailers.
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It's a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy set in Europe in the early decades of the actual Cold War, balancing its captivating lead characters and their fiery love with the grand sweep of the places and times they find themselves in.
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Throughout the first act of Mr. Maillot's two-act "Shrew," it's extremely hard to tell (or care) who most of the lead characters are, especially as Mr. Maillot starts the show with a sexy female star who turns out to be a very peripheral housekeeper.
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We both love comics from Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Saga) and this was his latest series with all-female lead characters, which matched the girl power theme of another comic he'd given me at the time (Nimona — also a quick and easy read!).
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I was able to speak to the often frustrating — and sometimes really exciting — experience of not just being a fat person, but also playing one on TV. A new goal stirred inside of me: I wanted to find and play lead characters, who weren't defined by size.
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But as he later recounted, he listened from his cell over a public address system and immediately recognized himself in the lead characters, the hobos Vladimir and Estragon, and perhaps especially in the character of Lucky, a seeming slave who enters tethered to Pozzo, his master.
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It's hard to care about family drama and romance when your lead characters have limited facial mobility, or to feel the weight of the show's numerous death scenes (we're not talking "Game of Thrones"-level here, but still) when the person dying is played by puppet.
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That was part of what was so exciting and challenging back in my father's day: creating a world where the puppets were not the sidekicks or the discoveries of human characters, but where all the lead characters and the lead dramatic roles would be played by puppets.
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The movie begins on a blunt note that resonates more of its awful tragedy as it continues: with the death by starvation of one of its lead characters, Seita, who then is reunited with his dead younger sister, Setsuko, the two of them now wandering as spirits.
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Here, it goes with the territory: The two lead characters, cautious Violet and headstrong Tigerlily, are members of a Girl Scouts-like organization for talking mice, the Acorn Scouts, which provides them with snappy uniforms, a handbook, a motto, a pledge and an intimidating troop leader named Miss Poppy.
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Even as the genre has evolved to reflect readers' varied tastes and fetishes — popular subcategories include vampire and werewolf romance, military romance, cowboy romance, time travel romance, pirate and Viking romance — the lead characters are often confined to a fairly narrow set of ethnic, cultural and aesthetic types.
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The scene signals to the audience, before Olivia Pope even appears on screen, that it's about to be introduced to a legendary character, not just because she didn't look like the any of lead characters on network TV at that time, but because she wasn't like any of them either.
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His longer works, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama, Fountains of Paradise, and Childhood's End, begin with simple, straightforward events—like the discovery of an alien monolith, the arrival of an extrasolar object, or the arrival of an alien spacecraft—and lead characters on remarkable, transformative journeys.
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" Robinson, who plays Sully, one of the show's principal drug dealers, is an aficionado of the David Simon show: in one of his recent songs, he raps, "Used to be a Barksdale man, but now I fuck with Marlo," a reference to two of the lead characters in "The Wire.
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Contrast Max and Karen's chemistry with the lead characters in Snipes's previous interracial romance Jungle Fever, which posits that its characters are primarily tempted by social taboos and stereotypes; One Night Stand assumes they're hot for each other because their spouses are tiresome, and, well, they look like Wesley Snipes and Nastassja Kinski.
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To merge the worlds of Toy Story and Vans, the creative team looked to both iconic scenes from the first movie for pattern ideas as well as to the lead characters — namely, Woody and Buzz Lightyear — in order to translate the essence of the films onto shoes in a less obvious way.
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Given how much of the first season of "Game of Thrones" relies on an unfolding understanding of Robert's Rebellion and the way it impacted our various lead characters (Ned, Cersei, Jaime, Catelyn, and Littlefinger, to name just a few), it's no surprise that Benioff and Weiss first tested out the possibility of using flashback scenes.
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You'll notice that the characters who were turned to dust at the end are either relatively minor characters (much as we like Scarlet Witch, it's really not that hard to imagine the Avengers without her) or major lead characters we know are due back for sequels (there is no way Black Panther stops at just one solo feature).
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The Ghost Nation has been a suitably phantasmagoric presence in Westworld until recently, usually coming into the narrative in brief moments of chaos to inexplicably spill blood, whether in a flashback, to establish troubling memories for the madame-turned-rebel-leader Maeve (Thandie Newton), or to conveniently clash with the Confederados while other lead characters escape and continue their journey.
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I think I ended up more emotionally invested in him than in Jyn, Cassian, or Krennic — and while I could take the snarky route and say that's a result of the lead characters being pretty underdeveloped in the first half of the film, I actually think it's much more about Tudyk creating a unique, hilarious droid in a universe that's already filled with them.
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This is an issue when 70% of my students tell me that games such as Ryse: Son of Rome (which uses white statues to decorate the city of Rome and white Roman soldiers as lead characters), as well as films like Gladiator (which has a man from New Zealand playing the Spaniard Maximus) and the 300 (which has xenophobic depictions of Persians) led them to take my courses.
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