Paul Feig, director of such mega-hits as Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat, Ghostbusters and A Simple Favor, has branched out into the fairytale genre with The School for Good and Evil, which hit Netflix this week.
On Wednesday evening, Feig attended the Newport Beach Film Festival, where he was honored with a Career Achievement Award. Prior to a special screening at the New Port Theater, Feig took to the stage to talk with Deadline about the new film, which stars Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh and Laurence Fishburne, with voice-over by Cate Blanchett. RELATED: ‘The School For Good And Evil’ Review: Charlize Theron & Kerry Washington In Fun Combo Of ‘Harry Potter’ And ‘Wicked’ Feig discussed his career-spanning focus on presenting women without the stranglehold of reductive tropes, and how The School for Good and Evil—which actually challenges the notion that anyone can be wholly one or the other—felt timely, given social media-driven cancel culture.
The School for Good and Evil follows two young women, played by Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie, as they navigate being wrenched from their village life and dropped into separate schools, one for good, one for evil. “The core story is these two young women and their friendship,” Feig said. “I’m obsessed with female friendship and trying to portray it interestingly on screen, because I think it’s one of the things that never really gets shown in movies, and in Hollywood, and when they do, it’s usually much more contentious and it’s usually women pitted against each other, which I’ve always not enjoyed.” “So many women have been my friends over the course of my life,” he added. “And I was close with my mom, I was an only child, and so you see this dichotomy
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