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The two met when Callie was waitressing at a club in Nashville and the two became good friends. Callie was working as a production coordinator for uninspired, objectifying music videos in LA when she penned the script.

As a solo female writer in Hollywood, prospects for the movie were slim. But the industry eventually lauded her efforts with the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in Callie wondered whether the macho director, who was known for Blade Runner and Alien , could bring her vision to life. In the film, the American actors played two women whose characters' journey challenged traditional notions of femininity. Now Hollywood royalty, the pair attended a special screening to mark the film's 30th anniversary on Friday.

At the event in Los Angeles, Davis and Sarandon considered the film's impact. We're still waiting. It really did not happen. It seems like every five years or so, there's another movie starring women that's a huge hit and people say, 'Well now certainly everything is going to change,' and it really hasn't.

The film did change the lives of Davis, 65, and Sarandon, 74, though. Directed by Ridley Scott, the film was a critical and commercial success, winning Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards, where it received six nominations. Add to Bookshelf. Add to Cart. Subscribe Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House. We are experiencing technical difficulties.

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But I remember having to clarify that. The film that swept the board at the Oscars that year was The Silence of the Lambs , another film in which a female lead confronts male violence. Put that way, it seems like the early s was shaping up to be a boom time for female creatives in Hollywood.

But never underestimate the power of a backlash. They have no way out. Davis has been fighting for better roles for women in mainstream cinema ever since she played Thelma. A film about a feminist awakening, which gave women lead roles with firepower, desire and complex inner lives.