Forrest Gump’s Robin Wright hits back at critics who called Jenny ‘anti-feminist’

Robin Wright has hit back at critics who branded her Forrest Gump character Jenny as “anti-feminist”, describing her relationship with the film’s title character as “the sweetest love story.”

Jenny’s arc within the film, which takes her from childhood sexual abuse through drug use to an untimely death, has been widely criticised in the 30 years since the movie came out. The Independent’s Louis Chilton included it in a recent list of the “most problematic films ever made” thanks to “the film’s puritanical slut-shaming towards Robin Wright’s Jenny.”