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    Kate Mara Learned Importance of Speaking Up After Horrible Experience Filming 'Fantastic Four'

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    While she does not regret doing the Josh Trank-directed superhero film, the actress wife of Jamie Bell comes clean about feeling she was not valued on the set because she is a woman.

    Nov 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Kate Mara has opened up about her awful experience shooting 2015 film flop “Fantastic Four”, revealing she felt the shoot would have been more fun if she was a guy.
    Director Josh Trank’s superhero film was panned by critics and struggled at the box office, and now Kate admits she felt like she wasn’t valued on the set.
    “I had a horrible experience on ‘Fantastic Four’ and I’ve never talked about it before,” she says in a new Television Academy interview. “Do I wish I had responded differently to certain things? Yes, definitely.”
    “The fact of the matter is that my two horrendous experiences with directors were male directors. Have I not gotten along with a female director? Absolutely. And was it not the greatest work experience? Sure. But there was never a time that I felt, ‘This is happening because I’m a woman’.”

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    “With the male directors, it 100 percent was only happening with me; it was a power dynamic thing. And on both of my bad experiences, the movies were 95 percent men and I was the only woman in the movie.”
    Kate also tells Collider, “I think that the thing that I always go back to on that one is that I think I should have followed my instincts more. Like when my gut was telling me, ‘You probably shouldn’t let that slide, what that person just said’, or if you’re feeling a certain way about what an energy is like and how that is affecting your performance… You’re being paid to do a certain thing and if something is in the way of that, you have the right to speak up and say, ‘I’m actually not able to do what I am here to do because of X, Y and Z’.”
    “I think that speaking up is something that I think that we all probably learn it over and over again, to follow your instincts and if you’re feeling a certain thing that is uneasy or whatever, there’s a reason for it. I regret not having stood up for myself. I regret that for sure.”
    But Mara insists she still doesn’t regret making “Fantastic Four”, because she met her future husband – Jamie Bell – on the set.
    “I married one of my co-stars, so I don’t regret doing that movie at all,” she adds.

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      Kate Mara Cautions 'A Teacher' Would Not Be a Super-Easy Watch

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      When speaking about the new series about a high-school teacher having an affair with her student, the Claire Wilson depicter explains why it is important to explore the difficult subject matter.

      Nov 12, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Kate Mara hopes her new show “A Teacher” makes viewers “uncomfortable.”
      The new FX on Hulu series sees the 37-year-old actress play Claire Wilson, a married English teacher who grooms and manipulates one of her high school students.
      “Love, Simon” actor Nick Robinson, 25, stars opposite Mara as the teen victim, Eric Walker, and she tells The Wrap the programme was designed to explore the difficult subject matter from a new angle.
      “Some people are definitely going to feel uncomfortable watching the show. It wasn’t something that we made thinking that it would be a super-easy watch,” she says. “Comfortable is not the word we were going for.”

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      “I don’t think you normally see the story told from this perspective or this point of view. It was one of the reasons why I was excited to tell it,” adds Mara. “I think it’s because it isn’t something that people necessarily want to talk about. The fact that it’s a female doing the abuse and being the groomer and all of these things I think is also something that is rarely discussed.”
      She goes on to insist it’s “important” the show explores the taboo narrative from the viewpoint of the teacher and student, to highlight the “silly” stereotype of it being “cool” for a boy to have that illegal relationship with a teacher.
      “I think it is a unique thing to explore it, and it was something that we wanted to be very clear about from the beginning, that we were not saying that it was right, that we were always saying this was wrong,” muses the “House of Cards” actress.
      “It’s not a story that we were looking to tell to make people feel cozy,” she notes of “A Teacher”, which is adapted from Hannah Fidell’s 2013 film of the same name. “It’s an important story to tell in order to begin the conversation about how common this type of sexual assault has become. So that was more of the goal.”

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