Catherine Hardwicke learned a cruel lesson on The place of women in Hollywood After the success of Twilight. The director revealed to Guardian That the studio had offered her a “mini cupcake” to congratulate her on the unexpected cardboard of the vampiric film, which had brought in $ 69 million during her first operating weekend in the United States in November 2008.
An “overwhelming reality” which made her understand that she would never be treated like a male director. “I entered a room with all these gifts. Everyone congratulated the studio, and they gave me a box. I opened it, and it was a mini cupcake ”, told Catherine Hardwicke. While a male director with such success would have received “a car, a contract for three films, or the chance to do virtually everything he wanted,” she explains, she was only entitled to a tape in the back and a miserable cake.
When ingratitude has no limits
And the icing on this cake was even more indigestible: the studio preferred to call someone else – in this case Chris Weitz – for the second part of the franchise, Twilight : New Moon. And as a consolation lot, Catherine Hardwicke was entrusted with the realization of Red ridea 2011 movie With Amanda Seyfried of which not many people remember, and for good reason; The studio had hardly bet on it.
“It was much more difficult, because the budget was lower than that we had on Twilight. And it was a very fantastic register, so we could not film any real place and we had to build all the sets. They did not give me a lot of freedom, ”deplored Catherine Hardwicke, illustrating, like many of her sisters, persistent inequalities in the film industry.
