Mary Chieffo: Discovery Is 'a Feminist Piece'

[KennyB]

Gotta love it when a "cadet" pops in and throws a grenade.........threads and replies like this remind me why I took a 10 year break from the TBBS.

 

[Awesome Possum]

A huge quote with a single world response? Seems legit.

 

[Lord Garth]

Totally. And then the lack of saying anything afterwards.

 

[Jayson1]

Totally. And then the lack of saying anything afterwards.

Perhaps he is carefully crafting the perfect and nuanced response we all expect to see at any moment.

Jason

 

[CorporalCaptain]

So this thread is about another poster now is it?

That's not "another poster," that's the OP, aka the "original poster." There's no "other" about it.

I think @Vitalitas should weigh in.

Aw, and this was his or her very first post. Bless his heart! (Or her heart!)

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Interview with Sonequa Martin-Green & Mary Chieffo (Fangirling):

MARY CHIEFFO: What I really appreciated about the story that we're telling is the diversity of the types of women, of the types of men. I mean, I feel it's a feminist piece in both, its male and female characters, that we get the sensitivity of Tyler and Stamets' intellect, and the beauty of Hugh's intelligence and his ability to figure things out that nobody else did, you know and uh. . . .

SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN: Yea, it's true.

MARY CHIEFFO: And then it's been for me to explore L'Rell being in a patriarchal species. You know, it's—there are a lot of different strong women but they're not strong in the same way.

SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN: Right. Absolutely. It's like championing diversity in all its forms.

[. . .]

MARY CHIEFFO: Well, one thing that um, has actually been really fun to play with—again, coming back to L'Rell specifically being in a patriarchal species—is what I think in playing her I embodied more—you know she says in episode four, "I live in the shadows, I prefer to work on the sidelines," and um, and she sees herself as someone who is in service of the males in charge. She's powerful but she doesn't realize it yet. And maybe as the audience we're seeing her in a clearer way than she does, so as an alien she also views herself as a woman within the species that she's in.

[. . .]

MARY CHIEFFO: That scene with Tyler—I mean, c'mon. . . .

SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN: Yes . . . It's something that we discussed from the very beginning that there was going to be a bit of a gender role reversal with this relationship because here you have this man who's so sensitive and so open and so vulnerable, and losing his way, not knowing where he's going and then seeking comfort, and you know, and then you see, you know, the woman in the relationship being the one that's sort of leading and championing, and being the one that is sort of covering him in that way, and I think it's so inspiring to see two people decide to come to that point but—and really do what's best for each other—and again, it speaks to what we're doing on this show in particular because it's very different from what we've seen before.

[. . .]

MARY CHIEFFO: Women power!​

LOL . . .

Hey, "new" person who makes their first and only post to troll. Thanks for the article. I'm going to repost it in the other thread about women in Discovery without the well poisoning one-word commentary and the disingenuous mini-modding followup from some of the usual suspects, and close this garbage fire of a thread before it gets more out of hand. In the future, if you plan to stick around, don't sabotage the thread from the first post and actually add some worthwhile commentary of your own.