Entertainment
‘Promising, Young Woman’ is the female ‘Breaking Bad’
A woman with nothing to lose
Margot Robbie’s fledgling production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, has gotten off to a rocky start. It’s first four films: I,Tonya, Terminal, Dreamland, and Birds of Prey had less than stellar reviews and no particularly significant returns at the box office. Some people blamed the writing, others blamed promotions, and some actually blamed Robbie herself. She cast herself in the title role of all four of those first four films. People claimed that she had a bad eye for casting in that she cast herself.
Robbie is obviously quite striking and easy on the eyes, which works great when the role calls for a movie star. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work quite as well when the role requires someone who is a little more relatable. It’s the same problem someone like Scarlett Johansson or Gal Gadot might face. They’re nice to look at, but it’s hard for the average person to feel much sympathy for them on screen when they look the way they do.
At LuckyChap Entertainment, Robbie, along with her partners Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr, set out to create a production company that would highlight and promote female talent in Hollywood. Hollywood is notoriously sexist, having very few leading roles for…
