"Salt was developed with a male actor in mind, specifically Tom Cruise, who was attached to play C.I.A. operative Edwin Salt. After Cruise...took a pass, the script found its way to [Angelina] Jolie. Writing for a man, then swapping gender, is, as it turns out, the best way to create an utterly liberated hero, a character with none of the tropes that writers, even if they don't mean to, fall back on when creating a role for a woman."
Super interesting. If I were a screenwriter, I would try this as a tactic to make my characters nuanced and unexpected.
I'll definitely need to see this movie.
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