(#8) Zula
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Zula was a reluctant student of sorcery in the Conan comics. Of royal blood and the last of his kind, Grace Jones played a satisfying female version of the character. She held the screen with the imposing Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(#16) Jennifer Goines In The '12 Monkeys' Series, Played By Emily Hampshire
The Brad Pitt character in the 1995 film became female for the TV series, because producers didn't want to put that kind of pressure on an actor. Jeffrey became Jennifer, but the interpretation is Hampshire’s. She said about her performance: "It's the same character, but I'm not doing an impression of his performance - it's totally new.”
They did give her character a replica of Pitt’s pullover - Comic-Con fans dug it.
(#5) Karsi In 'Game Of Thrones,' Played By Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
She only appeared in one episode in Season 5, but Karsi left an impression with viewers. In “Hardhome,” Sorensen’s clan chief and Wilding elder is tough and ready to kick White Walker butt. Miguel Sapochnik, who directed the episode, said that Karsi was originally written as a man.
They wanted to show another dimension to the Wildling plight as the dark forces closed in on the north. When the warrior and mother faces off with White Walker children, the end result is powerful.
(#6) Starbuck
When Ronald D. Moore resurrected Battlestar Galactica, he wanted to avoid any comparison of Starbuck to Han Solo. "Making Starbuck a woman was a way of avoiding what I felt would be 'rogue pilot with a heart of gold' cliche,” Moore said. He also wanted to update Kara Thrace and bring her into the modern world, explaining, “the whole notion of women in the military is a relatively new idea.”
Starbuck was still a highly sexual, hard-drinking fighter pilot with blond hair.
(#7) Murph
Originally Cooper’s child Murph was a boy, but Nolan decided to make a change: "Maybe because my eldest child is a girl, I decided to change Murph into a girl. I found that came very naturally to me, writing that relationship between a father and a daughter."
(#4) Evelyn Salt
Edwin Salt became Evelyn Salt, though the role was created for Tom Cruise. Cruise passed and Jolie became the CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy. Once Jolie got the part, she had to fight to keep the character from turning into a stereotype.
Director Phillip Noyce caused a stink when he said he didn’t want the male characters to be “castrated” by a female hero. Jolie said: “When they write something on purpose for a woman, it's always about being a woman - using your femininity, all these kind of female obvious things. So we said let's just keep all the things about it that are tough, and it's about being what she is, it's about the journey. And if anything, we have to make it darker and we have to make it meaner than the boys."
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When we think of “Women in speculative fiction, ” we often think of the roles once called “scream queens, ” actresses who appear in the second act of the next day and escape alien invaders from Earth or scuffling with aliens on an alien ship. You’ll find one or two regulars on the list below, but our intent is not to stir up familiar faces from sci-Fi genres but to honor the actors who have created some of the most distinctive and iconic roles.
The random generator tool collates 17 entries, recording 17 iconic roles that should have been played by men, but was instead played by women. As Ellen Ripley, M, Paula, Evelyn Salt, Starbuck and others, but they were very successful and impressed the audience.
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