‘Agent Carter’: How Hayley Atwell Is Bringing A Feminist Icon To The Small Screen MTV:&n

‘Agent Carter’: How Hayley Atwell Is Bringing A Feminist Icon To The Small Screen MTV: It sounds like you have a fair amount of creative control over what happens with Peggy Carter… What’s it like being on both sides?Atwell: It’s a dream. It makes it more of a collaboration rather than me just being employed as an actress, standing in place and reading my lines. Together with the producers and the writers, I can help to create and shape who she is. That means I’m incredibly proud of her, and it means I have a little more say in the direction I think she should be going in, and [what] I think audiences really want.And also to be a great role model for women, for young girls too.MTV: That’s certainly one of the big themes for the series, the interplay between men and women in that era. How do you think it relates to what’s going on now?Atwell: We’ve come a long way. We’ve come a lot further than Peggy in 1946, but we’ve still got a long way to go. In terms of equality in the workplace, equal pay for women, we’re still struggling in the Western world. We’re still struggling for women, not to mention globally. With the tremendous insight we’ve had over the past few years, the actual brutal suffering of women all over the world, there’s an actual need for women’s education, and women’s rights.Those things that make Peggy relatable give her entertainment value, but also makes her have a little bit more depth. MTV: Before I let you go, who would win in a fight –- Peggy Carter, or Agent Melinda May from “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.”?Atwell: [Laughs] Oh my goodness. That’s a fight I want to see. I think they would be so amazed at each other’s level of skill that they would just go, “You know what girl? High five. Awesome.” And then we’d go out for cocktails.“Read the full piece hereFeminism and sisterhood with Hayley Atwell! -- source link

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