While you’d think that there’d be more equity between male and female directors after more than a century of moviemaking as an industry, the field is still rather male-dominated. Sure, there’s been a push in the right direction, with more female directors behind game-changing movies like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie or Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, but it’s still sort of a phenomenon when it does happen. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke recalled her experience on the 2008 hit, and why it didn’t give her hope for the future of Hollywood banking on women filmmakers.
Between casting Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in their iconic roles and finding a vision to thoughtfully adapt Stephenie Meyer’s books, director Catherine Hardwicke helped make 2008’s Twilight the box office hit that it became. However, her experience making the movie led her to discover the following about the world of Hollywood:
