Catherine Hardwicke is getting candid in regards to the distinction in how female and male administrators are handled in Hollywood.
Throughout a latest interview with The Guardian, the Twilight filmmaker recalled the reward she obtained from the movie’s producers, Summit Leisure, following the Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson-led film’s shock triumph on the field workplace. Whereas Summit hoped it will gross no less than $30 million throughout its run, Twilight went on to earn $408.4 million worldwide.
“I walked right into a room with all these presents, and everyone was congratulating the studio, they usually gave me a field,” Hardwicke recalled. “I opened it up, and it was a mini cupcake.”
Nevertheless, she mentioned male administrators is likely to be gifted “a automotive, or a three-picture deal, or [getting] to do mainly no matter you need” following a profitable film.
Hardwicke admitted that she realized the laborious truths behind filmmaking fairly shortly in her profession. “No, folks aren’t going to rent extra girls administrators. They’re not going to provide the subsequent job and allow you to do one thing nice,” she mentioned. “It was an earth-shattering actuality instantly.”
The Crimson Driving Hood filmmaker solely directed the 2008 installment within the Twilight saga, with male administrators taking on the reins for the remaining movies, together with Chris Weitz helming New Moon, David Slade directing Eclipse and Invoice Condon overseeing Breaking Daybreak Half 1 and Half 2.
Hardwicke beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2023, whereas wanting again on Twilight on its fifteenth anniversary, that she selected to solely direct the primary installment as a result of she “had essentially the most inspiration and imaginative and prescient for the primary guide. Not a lot, the opposite ones.”
She added that she felt proud to seize “a love that’s like a drug” that’s “only a head rush that makes you’re feeling ecstatic” within the film that’s nonetheless beloved and watched by followers immediately.