Actress Lucy Liu made multiple claims about her on-screen career in a recent interview, including that she and her female co-stars in the Charlie's Angels reboot were on magazine covers at the same time. She said that they were the first female trio to do so.
Liu appeared on Variety's podcast “Variety Studio” and was asked if he would consider making a sequel to the hit series.charlie's angels” series, where he co-starred with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore.
“Honestly, I don't see how that would be possible,” she said. variety. “There were so many repetitions, even after the fact. … In some ways, it's very strange to think about it. Times have changed a lot since then,” she added.
From there, Liu cemented herself as part of a landmark moment in the entertainment industry where three women promoted the film.
“At the time, when we were promoting, we had never had three women on the cover of a magazine before,” she claimed. “They didn't even know how to do it. It was very strange for women to collaborate and be seen as colleagues and friends. That was a huge moment, but now that has changed.”
Despite this claim, Liu, Diaz, and Barrymore were not only not the first three women to be photographed together in a mainstream Hollywood magazine, but also the original cast of the television show. ”charlie's angels” was published in several magazines with international circulation in the 1970s.
Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith all 1976 People cover Not only magazines, time magazine In that same year.
as toto's hollywood He pointed out that the four female stars of “The Golden Girls” also appeared. magazine cover They were together throughout the show's run from 1985 to 1992.
Liu also starred in the 1997 drama “ally mcbeal” and no female actress led the show.
“Even when I was doing 'Ally McBeal,' there weren't any leading women in that way. There were Mary Tyler Moore and others, but the focus changed. I'm not in charge of that. But that's what I always do.'' “Enjoy the moment you have and move on.'' I don't really dwell on things like that. But if something like that happened, I would be really shocked. You will receive it.”
” mary tyler moore show” ran from 1970 to 1977, and in addition to “The Golden Girls,” many other famous sitcoms and dramas starring women aired before “Ally McBeal.”
These include “I Love Lucy,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Bewitched,” “Murphy Brown,” “The Nanny,” and more.
according to rankerOf the top 70 Best TV Shows with Female Leads, 20 were produced before the TV appearances cited by Liu.
Mr. Liu's comments echoed claims made by actress Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence told Variety in December 2022 that she hadn't had an action movie featuring a female lead character until she starred in the Hunger Games movies.
“I remember when I was doing The Hunger Games, no one was going to cast a woman as the lead character in an action movie because it wouldn't work, we were told. …Both girls and boys can relate to male protagonists, but boys can't relate to female protagonists,” Lawrence said.
Audiences immediately made Sigourney Weaver's name in the 1979 filmalienin which she played women who predated her acting career, alongside Milla Jovovich, Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, and Kate Beckinsale.
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