JESSICA JONES Takes Girl Power to the Next Level by hiring All Women Directors for Season 2 Episodes
In a very progressive and awesome move, Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has announced that all thirteen episodes of Netflix’s second season of the Jessica Jones series will be directed by a female director.
Rosenberg made the announcement during a “Diversifying Entertainment” panel at a conference at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She already had the excited approval of Marvel for hiring more female directors for the show, but when someone suggested only female directors for the season, Melissa was absolutely for it.
She didn’t give details about the story arc for the second season of Jessica Jones, but only that she look on various perspectives for coming up with the story arcs.
“When I interview a writer, I’m less interested in what you’ve been doing professionally than I am in where you’re from, what your parents do, what’s your life experience, what are you bringing to the table personally?” Rosenberg said. “I don’t want a bunch of people who look and sound [like me] and have the experiences I have.”
Rosenberg, who also penned the “Twilight” movies, in addition to her experience writing for other TV and film franchises, told her audience that persistence was one of the key attributes that aspiring creatives should bring to Hollywood, whatever their background, gender, or culture.
“I think the only reason I’m sitting here is because of tenacity. It’s a tough business. You really have to be able to take a hit,” noted Rosenberg. “I’ve gotten fired so many times, I can’t even count now.”
“That’s the nature of the business, it’s really hard,” she added. Rosenberg said that “delusional optimism” had allowed her to survive. On the bad days, “you have to be able to pick yourself up and say that tomorrow is going to be better than today.”
Who else is looking forward to seeing what kind of episodes we’ll get to see from the female directors? We are!
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