Don’t call Zooey Deschanel a “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” any longer.
The New Girl alum discussed how she feels about being connected with the popular culture term, very first created in 2007 by AV Club author Nathan Rabin, which usually explains a wacky, rather unpopular and appealing female character who offers a male lead character a much deeper significance to his life.
“I don’t feel it’s accurate,” Deschanel informed the Guardian in an interview released July21 “I’m not a girl. I’m a woman. It doesn’t hurt my feelings, but it’s a way of making a woman one-dimensional and I’m not one-dimensional.”
When asked if she is getting less functions as a manic pixie dream woman, and if favorable modifications such as the #MeToo motion has actually moved Hollywood far from female tropes, the 42- year-old reacted, “I think the tendency is still to make women one-dimensional, so you have to add dimension, if you can. The more screen time a female character gets, the more space there is to show complexities, but there has been a shift, so I’m optimistic.”
