Emily Blunt says she’s “bored” of the “strong female lead”
"Those roles are written as incredibly stoic," she says
The clever trick in Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario is that Emily Blunt’s character is presented as the standard hero-type who is there to help bring down a Mexican drug cartel, when in reality she’s just a tool to make it seem like some covert CIA black ops shit is more legal than it actually is—undercutting both the idea of America’s ever-noble attempts to police the world and the trope of the unimpeachable, super-capable woman in an action movie who nevertheless doesn’t really get to do anything cool or important (Blunt’s character is pretty much explicitly told that that’s why she exists). But if Sicario didn’t make it clear enough, Emily Blunt has now directly explained that she’s “bored” of seeing a script that describes a character as a “strong female lead.”
