‘Hit Man’ Director Richard Linklater Laments Hollywood’s “Sexless Characters, Superheroes Without Genitalia”
deadline.comDirector Richard Linklater rues that Hollywood has taken to creating sexless characters and superheroes without genitalia. The writer/director of films including the Before trilogy and Boyhood is behind Netflix’s Hit Man, one of the standout successes at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
Linklater calls the movie, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, a “sexy crime thriller meets screwball comedy” and says the plot hinges on Arjanoa’s character Maddy being “the one he will risk everything for, just to sleep with her.” Linklater told The Times of London: “Sex and violence is what cinema is great at.
Sex was always the great seller; I don’t know why they backed off from that. Hollywood started feeding this new generation characters that were sexless.
Superheroes don’t have sex. They don’t have genitalia, frankly.” Hit Man follows Gary Johnson (Powell), a professor who moonlights as a fake hitman for the New Orleans Police Department, inveigling targets into arranging hits, and then shopping them to the cops.
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