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(#9) Kyle Pratt
The role was originally written as a father looking for his missing daughter on a plane. “We sort of took one shot with an actor, and then we had the idea that this is maybe [the wrong story] to do with a man - maybe we need to do this with a mother," director Robert Schwentke said. "It’s much more archaic; the bond between a mother and daughter is a different one than the father and the daughter. Thinking along the lines of how we can make this the most emotionally impactful movie possible, we started thinking about Jodie and, thank God, she was interested in doing it."
They did keep the original name of the male character, though.
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(#8) Zula
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Zula was a reluctant student of sorcery in the Conan comics. Of royal blood and the last of his kind, Grace Jones played a satisfying female version of the character. She held the screen with the imposing Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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(#11) Delacourt In 'Elysium,' Played By Jodie Foster
Foster had wanted to work with Neill Blomkamp since she saw District 9. As he was casting Elysium, he decided to make Defense Secretary Delacourt female. But once he made the decision to change the character’s gender, he didn’t know if Foster would do it. “I thought, ‘That would be f*cking awesome, but there’s just no way,'” he said. “But then, within, like, a day, I had a meeting with her and she said, ‘I want to play it.’ I was like, ‘Holy sh*t!’”
Foster’s Delacourt proves women can be just as elitist as men when it comes to sharing snooty orbiting space real estate.
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(#7) Murph
Originally Cooper’s child Murph was a boy, but Nolan decided to make a change: "Maybe because my eldest child is a girl, I decided to change Murph into a girl. I found that came very naturally to me, writing that relationship between a father and a daughter."
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(#14) Lenny
On the way to production, the character of network president Lenny changed to female. Weaver insisted that nothing change about her character, including the obsession about whether women’s breasts are real.
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(#6) Starbuck
When Ronald D. Moore resurrected Battlestar Galactica, he wanted to avoid any comparison of Starbuck to Han Solo. "Making Starbuck a woman was a way of avoiding what I felt would be 'rogue pilot with a heart of gold' cliche,” Moore said. He also wanted to update Kara Thrace and bring her into the modern world, explaining, “the whole notion of women in the military is a relatively new idea.”
Starbuck was still a highly sexual, hard-drinking fighter pilot with blond hair.
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When we think of “Women in speculative fiction, ” we often think of the roles once called “scream queens, ” actresses who appear in the second act of the next day and escape alien invaders from Earth or scuffling with aliens on an alien ship. You’ll find one or two regulars on the list below, but our intent is not to stir up familiar faces from sci-Fi genres but to honor the actors who have created some of the most distinctive and iconic roles.
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