{"id":130843,"date":"2015-10-20T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/20\/i-didnt-realise-when-i-was-younger-that-women\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:23:13","slug":"i-didnt-realise-when-i-was-younger-that-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/20\/i-didnt-realise-when-i-was-younger-that-women\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I didn\u2019t realise when I was younger that women were written so badly but going further into this career I realised there are a lot of really bad characters, that it\u2019s not common to come across females who aren\u2019t just \u2018the girlfriend.\u2019&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Jenna were talking about it. When you get a script they always include a sentence or two about the character, something like \u2013 Jason: 36, strong, built, quick, witty and a description of his personality.\u00a0There there\u2019s his girlfriend \u2013 Sarah: hot, blonde. And that\u2019s it! \u2018Hot looking but in a cute way.\u2019 That\u2019s your character!<\/p>\n<p>[I hope I] never have to play a character that is only there to benefit a male lead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2015-10-12\/maisie-williams-hits-out-at-badly-written-female-characters-who-are-only-there-to-benefit-a-male-lead\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor Who: Maisie Williams discussed \u201cbadly written\u201d female characters with Jenna Coleman<\/a>\u00a0(spoiler warning so click at your own risk.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/m2EC_KrojbMOI6Qe81EXMng\" target=\"_blank\">@merindab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/parallelgallifrey.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">parallelgallifrey<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t realise when I was younger that women were written so badly but going further into this career I realised there are a lot of really bad characters, that it\u2019s not common to come across females who aren\u2019t just \u2018the girlfriend.\u2019&quot; \u201cMe and Jenna were talking about it. When you get a script they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/20\/i-didnt-realise-when-i-was-younger-that-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15294,4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}