When you watch the full season six of House of Cards, you keep wondering to yourself why no one gave Robin Wright a bigger role in any series before. The sixth season has received mixed reviews but Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood is a contender for Emmys, Golden Globes and the lot when the award season arrives because she is delightful. She’s mastered the art of deadpan and she proves it this season more than ever. The final season, including the final episode which Wright directed, has received mixed to bad reviews. But her Lady Macbeth-like is a performance of a lifetime. And with no Kevin Spacey, who was dropped from the series after multiple sexual misconduct allegations, the mantle to carry on the show fell on Wright’s shoulders. Her directing has also opened up her vision for the future.
Appearing on the cover of Variety and talking about Time’s Up movement, she said: “The conversation has certainly opened up, that we need to start speaking differently about boundaries. And it has shifted the energy in every workplace and just in society.”
She added: “I really have been on this path of talking about, or wanting to focus on this new generation, the little boys and the little girls. Let’s start there. Because we all — women, men — we’ve all just gone through life going, ‘That’s just the way things are.’ I’m guilty of it, too: ‘Yeah, that’s just the way it is,’ if you felt someone cross a line with you. We need to change that tape. It’s not going to be that way anymore. And when you teach the little ones the difference between right and wrong and they grow up with that, that’s going to be a whole new world.”
