It’s also a double standard: all the best male characters are unkempt or flawed in some capacity. “A woman does the same thing and people are actually offended,” she said. “They’re offended that I don’t preen myself—even though it would be completely inappropriate for the character. . . . Don’t you go to the movies to see real people with real flaws and watch them try to get better? Without the mess you’ve got nothing.”31
