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pushes the boundaries of female representations in popular entertainment. The characters are complicated, raunchy and at times self-defeating, but never apologetic., Poehler moved into the director's chair for the first time. "To be in control and start and finish a project from beginning to end," she says, "that's what turns me on right now." That she was directing her friends in a semi-autobiographical sendup made the process far less intimidating.
"I've had the incredible good fortune of being around supportive, interesting women who are not looking to take each other down," she says. "And I am a very competitive person. But it's never in response or reaction to somebody else's successes or failures. And the few times I've stepped into that world, on other projects, it's very, where I've laid down my shield very fast. It's like, 'Oh no, that's not how I operate. I don't work that way.
One of her biggest challenges, Poehler tells me, is defining her own feminism in the #MeToo era. When she was producing, she admits that, at times, her instinct was to abrogate some of the actresses' overt sexuality. Her parents remain the defining positive influence in her life. She credits her dad with giving her street smarts.
"They have to understand their privilege in the world. They cannot just live in a bubble because truly the world depends on it. We are handing them a world that's on fire — the oceans are rising, the animals are dying — and saying, 'Good luck, kid!'" "To me, Twitter is like trying to have a nice dinner with your friends in the middle of an insane asylum. It's like, 'Right this way, there's a lovely dinner with all your friends, and you just have to walk through an asylum for the criminally insane. Maybe everybody will be asleep and you'll be able to have interesting conversations with like-minded people, but you may also get poop thrown on you.'"Poehler.
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