Important To Create Content Where Women Evolve In Front Of Our Eyes: 'Tenet' Star Elizabeth Debicki

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Spy dramas have historically marginalised their female characters into non-existence, says Hollywood star Elizabeth Debicki, who feels fortunate to portray an authentic woman in Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller "Tenet" Debicki said spy genre films of the past treated their female characters as mere extras but women have started pushing through this "marginalisation" in movies today. "I do think that we are pushing through the marginalisation and these stereotypes, the kind of in-built limitations of women within that genre. So often women are adjunct and kind of objectified and idealised into a non-existence. You can watch a film in that genre and at the end of it have no idea who those women are," the actor told .

New Delhi: Spy dramas have historically marginalised their female characters into non-existence, says Hollywood star Elizabeth Debicki, who feels fortunate to portray an authentic woman in Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller “Tenet” Debicki said spy genre films of the past treated their female characters as mere extras but women have started pushing through this “marginalisation” in movies today. “I do think that we are pushing through the marginalisation and these stereotypes, the kind of in-built limitations of women within that genre.

So often women are adjunct and kind of objectified and idealised into a non-existence. You can watch a film in that genre and at the end of it have no idea who those women are,” the actor told .

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