Robin Wright addresses backlash to her ‘anti-feminist’ character in ‘Forrest Gump’

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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.

Jenny eventually dies of a terminal illness after having a child with Forrest. “I don’t think it’s a punishment that she gets AIDS,” said Wright. “She was so promiscuous — that was the selfishness that she did to Forrest.

He was in love with her from Day 1. And she was just flighty and running and doing coke and hooking up with a Black Panther.”“And then she gets sick and says, ‘This is your child.