Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lawrence, Tessa
Thompson and More Stars Land Covers for Elle's 2017 Women in Hollywood
Carly Rae Jepsen's
"Call Me Maybe"
These
women are showing Hollywood who's boss.
On
Monday, Elle released
the cover stars of its annual Women in Hollywood issue. For 2017, Jennifer Lawrence, Margot Robbie, Laura Dern, Tessa
Thompson, Jessica
Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Riley Keough and Kathleen
Kennedy earned strong individual covers, but spoke in unison on themes
about emboldening fellow women in the industry, expanding the scope of female
characters on TV and in film and taking action to move the needle in their own
careers.
"I never thought I'd
want to be a producer. I'd always wanted to direct and write, but I got to a
point as an actress where I felt like I was everyone's puppet," Robbie
told the magazine. "I thought, Why don't I get a say in the art I'm
making?"
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In
addition to the I, Tonya star's perspective, 92-year-old
industry icon Tyson spoke on the scope of beauty in her career while
28-year-old Keough discussed her experience with nudity on set.
Here are this year's
cover stars in their own words:
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TESSA THOMPSON
The Thor:
Ragnarok actress is all for breaking down the walls that keep
characters boxed in. "I think our ideas about what a young black
person or a young Mexican person or a young white person should be like weren't
as expansive then as they are now," she told Elle. "It
made me think I had to fit into a box. The one-dimensional girlfriend or
the sassy black friend—those weren't going to work for me."
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JENNIFER LAWRENCE:
This Oscar-winning star puts worrying to rest after she's done
in front of the camera. "The only time I find myself worrying about the
result is when I'm filming, because I'm working all day, and then I come home
and my brain's just like, What should we panic about?" she explained
to Elle. "After I've finished the process, though, it's
done for me. I've done my work, and I've gotten what I need to get out of
it—I've fulfilled myself. What happens next doesn't really matter."
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JESSICA
CHASTAIN
The Oscar nominee has portrayed a wide range of female
characters in her career thus far, and now, she's working to bring those kinds
of diverse opportunities to her colleagues by way of her production company,
Freckle Films. "For me, it's for finding and creating opportunities
for women and minority groups that might not have an outlet, whether it be as a
writer or an actor or a director," she told the magazine. "It's
important to me to create these stepping stones.
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CICELY
TYSON
The TV icon may be a beauty, but that isn't what she credits for
her long-lasting screen success. "At the very beginning of my career,
I had a teacher whose name was Vinnette Carroll; she directed a number of
Broadway shows. She kept saying to me, 'You know the problem with beautiful
women? They tend to rely on their beauty.' And I said, How wrong she is! I
never think of myself as being beautiful. I thought, What are you talking
about?" she recalled to the magazine. "I work so hard. And I did. But
I learned from her how important it is to learn your craft. When all else
fails, you will land on that, and that alone."
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RILEY
KEOUGH
The Girlfriend Experience star has stripped
down for her role on the Starz series, but as she told the magazine, it wasn't
all that hard. "I'd like to make the story more interesting and say
it was a really difficult thing for me to do…but I don't
find nudity difficult. America feels very…Oh my God, boobs! But I wasn't
squeamish," she told Elle.
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KATHLEEN KENNEDY
The acclaimed movie
producer—who has credits ranging from the Jurassic Park franchise
to Star Wars: The Last Jedi—is happy to send a message to women in
Hollywood whether she's behind the lens or in front of it. "I don't
like to step in front of the camera, but if I can be a role model for women to
recognize they can make it in film, I'm happy to do that whenever I can."
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LAURA DERN
The Big Little
Lies star is seeing a shift in her roles—one she welcomes with open arms. "In
my twenties, the characters I was asked to play were limited by, well, she's
just a girl—she doesn't mean it or she doesn't know who she is," she
told Elle. "So I'm starting to play women who just don't
know how to do it—they're not girls, but they haven't figured it out, still.
That's so relatable! I'm having the time of my life."
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MARGOT ROBBIE
In the four years since
she became a breakout star in The Wolf of Wall Street, the actress
has taken the reins on the business side of Hollywood with producer credits on
upcoming films like I, Tonya and Gotham City Sirens. "I
never thought I'd want to be a producer," she told Elle. "I'd
always wanted to direct and write, but I got to a point as an actress where I
felt like I was everyone's puppet. I thought, Why don't I get a say in the art
I'm making?"
As
Laura Dern wrote on social media, "Honored to be part of this tribe of
inspiring women. Thank you Elle!"
The issue hits newsstands
on October 17.
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