Leslye Headland Declares People Opposed To Wokeness Are Not Star Wars Fans

By John F. Trent

 

Star Wars: The Acolyte showrunner and the former assistant to convicted felon Harvey Weinstein Leslye Headland has declared that people who oppose wokeness in Star Wars are not fans of the franchise.

Headland’s comments came in an interview with The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes, who maligns Star Wars fans as misogynists for criticizing the woke DEI casting of the show.

His example? A single YouTube comment that questions, “Why are there so many women, girls and minority characters increasingly dominating the ranks of Jedi?” Ironically, George Lucas made similar comments when asked if he was going to bring more women into the future of Star Wars in an interview with Starlog in February 1988.

Lucas was asked, “Are you going to bring more women in for future Star Wars films?” He responded, “Well, what of Princess Leia? When you’re making a war film, how are you going to put women in it? Think of other war films, think of The Longest Day, those films. Well, it’s your galaxy; I have to go with the rest of the world. And still make it believable. I’m not how many women will be in the rest of the films; that the kind of thing that plots dictate. What would Star Wars have been like if Han Solo had been a woman?

Nevertheless, Brooks uses this single question to declare this is “a version of the same misogyny and racism that greeted Rey, the female Jedi (played by Daisy Ridley) who made her debut in The Force Awakens in 2015, and that drove Kelly Marie Tran off social media when she appeared in The Last Jedi (2017).”

Kelly Marie Tran explained why she left social media in an op-ed for The New York Times. The op-ed makes absolutely no mention that her decision had anything to do with Star Wars fans. In fact, the only mention of Star Wars is at the end of the op-ed where she declares, “I am the first woman of color to have a leading role in a Star Wars movie.”

Daisy Ridley has also rejected the narrative posited by Barnes. In January of this year during an appearance on the Today show, Ridley was asked by one of the show’s hosts, “I just have to ask because there are some of the, I’d say extreme Star Wars fans who have made this a conversation on the internet about how they don’t want a female director, which seems bizarre because episodes of The Mandalorian were directed by females, Kathleen Kennedy has been overseeing all of this. So what is your take?”

She responded, ““I think my take is things get blown out of proportion and the interactions I’ve ever had with people have been nothing but wonderful and supportive. And honestly the day we announced I was coming back at celebration last year, you cannot imagine the joy and good will in that room.”

She added, “So I’ve only ever been embraced. And I think we’re going to make a great film and people will love it…

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