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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal said President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s first election in 2016 is what inspired her to take up directing films like “The Bride!” ahead of the film’s lackluster release.<\/p>\n

In a resurfaced interview last month, Gyllenhaal spoke with the New York Times’ “The Interview<\/a>” podcast to promote her feminist horror take on the “Bride of Frankenstein” character where she discussed the shrinking number of female directors working on major projects.<\/p>\n

Despite the low number, Gyllenhaal described the “impact” female directors like Chlo\u00e9 Zhao have made and argued that there could still be a huge cultural pushback from the lack of female voices<\/a>, using Trump’s election as an example.<\/p>\n

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“I will say, and I don’t know if I’ve said this out loud before,” Gyllenhaal said. “Again, maybe I’ll get in trouble, but I actually think that when I really became a director was actually I think the first time that the morning that Trump was first elected, I think I was like, I have a lot more to say than I’ve been saying.”<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal added that the industry seems fine with women making “little movies” but warned that things can “get dangerous when women have their hands on a lot of money.”<\/p>\n

“Like, if you’ve had your mouth shut for so long, almost like a geyser, like having your hand on something, well, when it bursts, it’s going to come out really powerfully and with a lot of energy… I will say one thing about this.\u00a0It’s going to bring like an unstoppable response maybe, especially from women,” Gyllenhaal said.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to Gyllenhaal’s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n

Though Gyllenhaal has not previously cited Trump as a reason she began directing, she has criticized the president in past interviews. In 2017, Gyllenhaal told Stephen Colbert that Trump’s election<\/a> opened her eyes to misogyny still present in the modern world.<\/p>\n

“I think before he was elected, I \u2013 sexist things would happen all the time in my life, I\u2019d kind of go, \u2018you know what? I’m fine. I don’t need to unpack that. I don’t need to take that apart. I’m lucky. I’m doing fine. I’m just going to take that.\u2019 And after he was elected, I went, \u2018I\u2019m not going to take that anymore,\u2019” Gyllenhaal said on “The Late Show<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Gyllenhaal made her directorial debut with the 2021 film “The Lost Daughter” and also directed an episode of the 2020 TV miniseries “Homemade.”<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal’s latest film “The Bride!” failed to land with audiences<\/a>, grossing only $13.6 million globally in its opening weekend against a $90 million budget with an extra $65 million reportedly spent on marketing.<\/p>\n

“The Bride!” also only received mixed reviews from critics, according to the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/maggie-gyllenhaal-reveals-trump-election-inspired-her-direct-films-like-feminist-horror-the-bride <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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