The 'Luther' and 'Mosquito Coast' creator says the character was initially 'a woman because that’s more frightening,' but ultimately agreed with the streamer's pushback: 'They were right.'
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– not unfairly,” he said. “The odd thing, though, is that, if one were to do the maths, there are many, many more male victims in Still, he admits that there is something more unsettling about the presentation of violence against women — though he declines to pinpoint exactly where that comes from. Instead, when the reporter pointed to ongoing headlines around disproportionate violence against women, Cross responded that “there was very, very little conscious reaction to current events.
He did, however, acknowledge the difference in audiences’ responses to the gender of a victim ultimately plays into how much a story is able to drum up fear and pushed him to initially make the movie’s first victim a woman. “For reasons I fear to interrogate too deeply, the female victims resonate and scare more deeply,” he explained. “So, there was a defiant part of me in the first draft of this, which was, ‘Oh fuck it — the victim is going to be a woman because that’s more frightening.
Despite past criticisms, Cross said it would be the streamer’s pause about the decision that ultimately gave him pause — and convinced him to change the character from a woman to a man. “That’s the one moment where Netflix said, ‘Do you want to think about this a bit?’ And I did say, ‘Well, it’ll be less scary.’ I worried that it might be,” he recalled. “But actually, they were right.”
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