Blank Check with Griffin & David What Women Want with Lola Kirke
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Oct 21, 2018 Lola Kirke, actress and singer-songwriter known for Mozart in the Jungle and her album Heart Head West, joins to talk about What Women Want. They dig into the film’s treatment of misogyny, Nancy Meyers’ feminine perspective and production design, Mel Gibson’s star persona and later controversies, and how the movie reveals women’s interior lives.
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Binary Gender Framing Narrows Emotional Models
- The hosts note the film's didactic binary 'men vs women' framing forces narrow role models for viewers who don't identify as male.
- That binary can make emotional men feel like outsiders rather than valid models.
Let Successful Women Want Love Too
- Seek narratives that allow successful women to want love without penalizing ambition.
- Lola Kirke praised Darcy's arc as a rare example where a career-driven woman expresses desire for partnership rather than inevitable ruin.
Mel Gibson's Career Arc As Context
- The hosts traced Mel Gibson's early life and career arc from Mad Max to superstardom and later controversies.
- They used his trajectory to explain how star personas shape audience reception of films like What Women Want.