Jenny Curran: Last News

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robin Wright joined her “Forrest Gump” co-star Tom Hanks for a recent interview with The New York Times while promoting their latest collaboration, Robert Zemeckis’ “Here,” and she pushed back against claims that her “Gump” character, Jenny Curran, is “kind of an anti-feminist role.” Jenny is the love of Forrest’s life in the movie, but her freewheeling lifestyle keeps him at a distance. She embraces social liberation, does drugs and more. Then she dies of an AIDS-related illness, which some viewers have claimed is anti-feminist punishment for her lifestyle.

New York Times Friday alongside her “Forrest Gump” co-star, Tom Hanks, to promote their new film “Here,” and Wright was asked if she thinks her character in the 1994 classic, Jenny Curran, was “kind of an anti-feminist role.”“No! It’s not about that,” Wright rebutted. “People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as a reference, but she was kind of selfish.”In “Forrest Gump,” Wright’s Jenny is a victim of child sexual abuse and lives a life of freedom that involves drug use and sex work, as well as an on-and-off decades-long relationship with Hanks’ title character.

Forrest Gump, the iconic film directed by Robert Zemeckis, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and fans can now watch it for free.

Forrest Gump hit our screens and instantly became a Hollywood classic.It went down in history as one of Tom Hanks’ best performances, and won six Oscars, including Best Picture (beating out Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction), Best Director, and Best Actor.On a budget of $55 million, it grossed nearly $680 million at the box office, becoming a bona fide hit.Many lines from the film have been firmly cemented in popular culture forever (“life is like a box of chocolates” anyone?).“Run Forrest, Run” is another famous one – who could forget little Jenny Curran yelling this to Forrest as he broke free of his leg braces to escape a pack of bullies?With her big blue eyes and wavy blonde hair, little Hanna Hall, who was just 10 at the time of filming, won hearts around the world in her powerful role as childhood Jenny.Now 29 years later, fan are losing their minds at seeing her all grown up.Speaking to House Of Horrors about how she landed the gig, Hall explained that it was very unexpected.“It was very random. Nina Axelrod, my manager, was tired of LA and moved out to Colorado to teach classes,” the now nearly 40-year-old said.“She had a relationship with an agency that she would get represented by and she had an open casting call in the newspaper when I was seven years old.“My mother didn’t want to take me.