Kennedy began her Hollywood career as an assistant and then secretary with terrible typing skills but great ideas about production. Steven Spielberg wisely promoted her, and she produced most of his films for the next three decades, while occasionally collaborating with the other big directors in town: Scorsese, Zemeckis, Eastwood. Known as a story-focused producer, Kennedy took charge of Lucasfilm in 2012, giving her the keys to one of Hollywood’s most important kingdoms, the Star Wars universe. If The Force Awakens breaks boxoffice records this Christmas, as expected, it will be thanks to Kennedy’s careful shepherding.
Jennifer Lawrence
She’s already the youngest person ever to be nominated for three Oscars, and the most popular actress on Earth. But this winter Jennifer Lawrence will also likely become the first billion-dollar action movie female lead, with the climax to The Hunger Games saga (Daisy Ridley should follow her in December with Star Wars: The Force Awakens). She’s also changing the rules for young stars in Hollywood, making a virtue of extreme self-deprecation and goofiness while claiming, “They want me to be likeable all the time, and I’m just not”. Her utter condemnation of those who stole and leaked nude photos of her, and her negotiation of a $20m payday following the Sony hack revelations that she’d previously earned less than her male stars, suggest that she’s formidable enough to make it to even greater heights.
Reese Witherspoon
She’s one of the bigger stars of the last 20 years, but Reese Witherspoon has recently taken a turn towards activism. In 2012, she asked all the major studios what they were developing for women. As she recalls, “literally one studio had a project for a woman over 30,” so Witherspoon began optioning and developing projects for herself and – more revolutionary – for others. The first results included Wild and Gone Girl, both Oscar nominees, and Witherspoon followed up with her “#AskHerMore” awards season push to pressure newspapers to ask actresses about something other than her dress. Maybe she’s more Legally Blonde than we ever realised.
Potential Films to look at:
- Star Wars VII - The Force Awakens
- The Hunger Games
- Gone Girl
All information found at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/what-to-watch/most-influential-powerful-women/
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