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THE ENVELOPE LOS ANGELES TIMES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019
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OAH HAWLEY
is not inter-
ested in making
things easy for
you. His razor-
sharp adapt-
ation of the
Coen brothers’ “Fargo” for TV
and three mind-bending seasons
of “Legion” have been meaty,
thoughtful explorations of mental
illness and the nature of evil.
Now, in his debut feature film,
“Lucy in the Sky,” he’s homed in
on a brilliant astronaut who loses
her moorings back home. Hawley
sat with The Envelope at New
York’s SoHo House to talk about
“Lucy,” the male gaze — and astartlingly personal essay the
usually private writer-director
had shared on Medium just a few
days earlier.There’s a lot going on in
“Lucy,” but the thing that
rocks her world is when her
boss says she’s “too emo-
tional” to go back up in space.
That’s going to spark some
discussions.
It’s interesting. She’s not the
only one struggling with the
experience of being in space, but
she’s the only one who gets
dinged for it. We don’t normally
have movies in which that kind of
institutional bias plays a role inTHE CONTENDERSEyeing the
male gaze
Noah Hawley, the
writer-director
behind ‘Lucy in the
Sky,’ was raised to
respect women and to
amplify what they say.
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