Resonating with Melissa Febos' recent book Girlhood (which I haven't read, but discovered through a New Yorker profile), I talk in this episode about how the male gaze turns women from subject to object. And how this is felt keenly as a female actor, in the sexualization of the body and the reckoning with the need to be desired in order to be successful.
I also mention:
Why We Mourn GirlHood
~ Katy Waldman for The New Yorker on April 7, 2021
'One Tree Hill' Cast, Crew Detail Assault, Harassment Claims Against Mark Schwahn
~ Daniel Holloway for Variety on November 17, 2017
(photo credit: Janae Jones Photography)
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