Recently Carrie Preston (Arlene Fowler) talked with Zap2it about the kinds of films that she likes to produce including her latest achievement, That’s What She Said. One of the things she says her films try to do is focus on people outside of the Hollywood System or those who might not receive a movie under normal circumstances:
“We choose to do works that tell a story of people who might not get told in a wider, more “Hollywood studio” kind of system. I feel a lot of times that the films that are made specifically for the gay audience can be a little limiting. Maybe they are more explicit sexually, or they’re things that you can’t share with your family. We like to say that we make gay films you can take your mother to and women films with a “broad” appeal.”
Her film That’s What She Said features an all female cast with a strong but not typical female lead. Preston says she wanted to make the film in response to the bromance films that have been put out there:
“There are so many “bromance” films that are all-male except for maybe one female that the main protagonist wants to have sex with. That’s pretty much how women are represented in those films, and we wanted to make a female response to that. The things I do that are more fringe are because I want to give a voice to characters that wouldn’t otherwise have a place in our film and TV culture.”
As for how she became an actress, Carrie says she knew from a very young age that this was the profession for her:
”Oh, I knew immediately. I remember at one point, I think I was 13 or 14, I looked at my mother and said, “Do you think I can do this for a living?” and she said, “Well, honey, somebody’s gotta do it and I don’t know why it can’t be you.”
Source: Zap2it.com- “‘True Blood’s’ Carrie Preston works outside the Hollywood system”
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