The Economist asks: Stockard Channing

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: The Economist asks: Stockard Channing
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:19:03
• Published: 2017-08-17 15:46

Women are underrepresented on the big screen. Last year, less than a third of speaking characters in the highest-grossing films were female - a trend that hasn't changed in over a decade. Stockard Channing - best known for her role as Rizzo in the 1978 hit “Grease” and Abigail Bartlett in “The West Wing” - speaks to Anne McElvoy about how a new generation of creative women are fighting back by "kicking butt"

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