The Actress Trope | How We See Women 

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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” - Hedy Lamarr, an absolute queen

"...and Keanu Reeves-like eternal youth" 😂😂😂 that was a hilarious way to wrap it up.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” - Miss Piggy

The "Tortured Artist" would be a good trope.

"I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'' Sandra Bullock

Please do the justified cheating trope! Where cheating on perfectly decent partners is seen as ok and justified and even romanticized just because they're not the one the protagonist is attracted to or just because they're not interesting or smart enough, etc. A good example would be the notebook! Edit: they could also cover the cases where cheating is seen as justified. Where the protagonist cheats but its considered ok because their partner is mentally, physically abusive or cheated on them first! E.g. titanic

Awesome! You should do a “Drug Addict Trope” so many examples: Jesse from Breaking Bad, Klaus from The Umbrella Academy, Nicky from Orange is the New Black and it goes on

An ‘actress’ is ‘crazy’? As if no actor in the history of the world wasn’t messed up.

“A symbol of obedience.” Yeouch. I’m so glad that there are more women in the profession who are willing to speak up, not only in acting, but in producing, directing, writing, and they’re allowed to make mistakes.

Pls make a video on childfree women and their portrayal in the media. Especially compared to mothers

“The Actress trope” is really damaging to young girls who dream of being in the big screen, or on Broadway. It takes dreams that these kids have, and it frames them in a negative light. One of my biggest dreams is to be on Broadway, and I feel like I can’t tell anyone because I don’t want to appear vain, stupid, or shallow. I often lie about my dreams, and I don’t tell many people about them because they immediately stereotype me into this role that I never wanted to play. I am very intelligent, and it feels like when I tell people I want to be an actress on Broadway, their expectations of what I can do go down by 90%, and they just see me as this dumb, shallow, and self absorbed girl. I talked to my parents about this, and they have been super supportive about my dreams, and they often tell me about many actresses that went to Ivy Leagues and are smart to make me feel better. The truth is, acting requires a lot of intelligence. You can’t just be pretty. You have to study the source material, build your character, and then constantly put yourself in that character shoes and feel their emotions. It’s honestly like constantly studying books for English class, and then essays on character development. But it’s super rewarding in the end. All I am saying is that acting is hard work, and it can be less than glamorous at times, but if you really love it, it’s worth it. I’m not trying to discourage dreams of acting, I’m just saying that it’s hard work.

I missed Sharpay Evans here, she is the actress committed to the role but the role was stolen by some naive newcomer that isn't invested in it

meryl streep is a perfect counterexample of a woman who held on to fame even with age. Why? cuz she's an amazing actress.

I would love to see a video about Eastern Europeans/people from former soviet bloc countries. Their representations are always so reductive and often offensive (the men are hairy and bumbling, the women are mail-order brides, everyone is humorless) and I think it's tied to western anti-communist propaganda. Love your work!

Can you please do the 'disabled girl woman trope'? It seems that they are seen as a combination of waste of anyone's time, a saint and or stupid. It's frustrating as being a person with a disability is not just the usual wheelchair or the acceptable she's blind everything else works. There's so much more.

I think I have a problem. These video are so addictive 😫

Would you consider doing an episode on how teachers are portrayed? I am in education and I've noticed a lot oof people have a skewed view of the profession, largely because of film and tv

I always feel bad because actors work way harder than they ever get credit for.

Please cover the "Derailing Love Interest" trope, where the Romantic False Lead suddenly becomes nasty, as a means to shoehorn the main couple together. Bonus points if they were previously nice beforehand.

I met and worked with many starting out actresses and actors and I realized that the actresses were way more aware and woke of the industry while the actors were the naive ones. Also, so many actresses have children and a great career.

Can you do the mama bear trope? i think is interesting because how it is something that can be describe as femenine and masculine at the same time

“Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close up.” Iconic. Simply Iconic.

I saw "The actress" and Emma Stone and i inmediately thought of that SNL skit where Emma plays an actress that gets too much into her role: the wife whose husband cheats on ,in a gay porn

would love to see a trope video on the "tortured artist", especially "the writer"!

I love the conversation between Sussannah and Debra by the end of the video. A great way to see the compromise that The Take have with the topic they touch in every video

It’s disturbing to see in Mainstream Hindi Cinema how the Hindi Film Actress has been ‘othered’ by assuming she’s dumb and that’s what a lot of people think of them. But if you learn about them, they’re interesting, intelligent and fun people.

"That woman...is a woman!!" ☠️😅

I don’t even like being called an actress, an actor is an actor, it’s gender neutral! It’s funny how teens and 20’s are the ideal of a female screen actress but on stage it’s 30’s. Good luck finding a stage role with a decent amount of lines if you are under 30! Or longer if you look young. 🤪 It’s so awful because at 25 I’m running out of time to start screen acting but having to play literal children on stage. Like 11-15 year olds. There’s no winning!! It feels like I’ll go straight from playing kids to playing grannies sometimes. I just want to engage in the art-form I love so much, that’s it.

I love this new personal commentary section at the end! I would love a whole episode of this type of commentary. But please keep adding it to the end as well!

One of my favorite movies about actresses is Stage Door (1937) with Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Katherine Hepburn. I love how it captures the competitive nature in the industry, talented ingenues getting overlooked in favor of women who aren't talented but have the connections. It's a sad film, but a very good one.

Honestly, I'm tired of this trope, I don't want to see actresses playing actresses having a hard time becoming actresses. And I'm an actress! I want to see them playing other people outside of their own job.

Your video made me cry. I act all the time in my job. I'm a nurse. You put a wall up between yourself and too much real emotion because all of would probably kill you. But at the same time, you have to be there for your patients and your real emotion in your work is what makes you help them. To remember who you are there for and to help you learn. But at the same time...your body and your age...even though it is making you a better nurse because your intuition gets better and your knowledge base increases and actually connects with it...your body starts failing. Especially if you have children and your shifts are all over the place. You have to be kind but assertive. Jaded enough to look after yourself but still kind when you need to be....and then imagine working and relying on a bunch of people with these same problems. Not trying to be woe is me...I am very lucky and thus is the profession I chose....but your video helped.

‘Sunset Boulevard’ was just genius.

As a woman in her late 30s, I feel this so hard. I really feel like I've got an expiration date, now somewhere in my past, that limits my opportunities in life in so many ways - and like, no matter what I do, my looks always have and always will define me.

Just want to continue voicing my support for the post-video discussion. I'm really loving this new addition and hope it continues!

Can you do The Ingenue as a trope? I see Bridget Jones as a deconstructed Ingenue and Bombshell (face and personality of former, body and sensuality of latter). Also the Wallflower with a focus on WFs of color, the "All Grown Up and Beautiful" trope, Asian Women in media, and the slow burn of curvy bodies and representation in Hollywood

Hey! I would love to see a video about the "Sensitive male artist working on one last piece of art to change the world" Trope. It's surprisingly common, especially in musicals with men writing *the song*

I think that a big part of the fear at aging of real life actresses has a lot to do with the industry itself. It's so hard to find a good piece of media with complex well rounded senior women's. I mean, according to Hollywood women over 50 are etiher crapy hollow villains or crapy nurturing mother figures. I'd be terrified too.

Posted 20 seconds ago. Never been this early, I think. Cannot wait to see what your guys take is on this trope

Please do a video analyzing various film tests and their pros & cons (like the Bechdel Test, the DuVernay Test, and the Mako Mori Test)

Can you do an analysis of toxic friendships in trainspotting?

I'm disappointed you didn't have the names of the movies that you were showing scenes of this time. There's a lot of them in there I would love to watch. What's the one with Jessica Lange called?

I'm an actress and this video really hit home for me

I love the reviews you girls are doing at the end of every video 💗

Is it fair to say that Norma Jean Baker created Marilyn Monroe the "sexpot" (7:04) in the same manner that Marion Michael Morrison created John Wayne the "über-male" or Archie Leach created Cary Grant the "coolest guy in the room"?

Every day that I see there's a new video from you guys is like Christmas- carry on being awesome!

Please do the an analysis of the Bechdel test :O

I’m loving the Post-Credit Scenes.

To be honest, I've been curious to try acting myself. The idea of putting on a character to reveal their innards to the world. To push forward our perception and understanding of the human experience. I don't know if I'd be any good at it. But I'm curious. Thank you for creating this content. Seeing an examination of this idea from this perspective is so interesting to me. How film and mass media engage with our culture's depiction and understanding of femininity is such an in-depth and nuanced a thing, isn't it???

My favourites are Betty and Rita from Mulholland Drive, the dark side of showbiz and all the suspense about that film gets me goosebumps

I loved ‘Notting Hill’ as a Meta Film on Actresses. Julia Roberts is awesome!

I would love to see your take on the "Queer Parent" trope

Konkona Sen Sharma in ‘Luck By Chance’ is a great example of the deconstruction of ‘The Ingenue’/Blank Slate Category.

Can you guys analyse the" best friend of the protagonist, who's always at their house, mostly for food" trope. We also see a comedic effect in him/her being repeatedly kicked out. Examples include Hakeem from Moesha and Will's friend in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air I find it interesting why the shows rarely, if at all delve into the reason why, if that makes sense

The irony of the whole "actresses are insane" mentality meanwhile Tom Cruise is still being invested in by Hollywood.......

I would love you to explore the writer trope! Or maybe just people with an English related career and how they are written for film and tv.

I was super excited when I saw Sarah Goldberg as she was the best performance general of 2019 and then I became severely depressed knowing we still don’t have Barry Season 3

We need a video about female feuds in media, with Joan Fontaine VS Olivia de Havilland, Joan Crawford VS Bette Davis, Kathy Perry VS Taylor Swift, Kim Cattrall VS Sarah Jessica Parker, Shannen Doherty VS Alysa Milano, Mariah Carey VS Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears VS Christina Aguilera, and Victoria Justice VS Ariana Grande. There are a lot of topics that should be discussed when talking about female rivalry in media, such as feminism, patriarchy, fame, media outlets, female friendship, Smurfette principle, male friendship, and so on...

The movie perfect blue by Satoshi Kon explores this trope really well

I loved the conversation at the end! Although I think the scripted part is, of course, well-researched and very informative; I enjoy a little conversation that looks more organic 😁

Since y’all are doing character-career tropes as well, can we get a Tortured Artist or The Writer trope?

I love this channel. I recommend it to my film teacher.

I always say, "Oh look they aren't simply disembodied voices." Keep killing it! My MFA thanks you.

Please consider Teacher Trope next. It seems like you can only either be a saint or a devil.

Marriage and family often interfere with women's creativity due to commitment, unpaid workload, and social expectations of being a "good" housewife. That a lot of actresses, writers, eco-activists, managers, and other busy women weren't included mothers is fairly true in the arts and the media. Russian sculpturist Anna Golubkina said: "The art of tied hands does not like. You have to come to him with free hands ... Art is a feat, and here you have to forget everything, give everything".

Very glad I decided to use waterproof eyeliner today.

Hi Takedom 👋 we are here for another troupe, I love these things!

I’d love to see a video essay on Grey’s Anatomy! Like “A Masterclass in being Human”

I enjoyed the less-exaggerated voiceover in this video. Could you possibly have the other voiceovers be more like this one? Thank you 💖

I quite like the 2 min reflexions at the end, good idea. Keep up the good work, you're the best!

18:40 Punintended or not, I really appreciated that

This channel is so good!

I dig the end roundtable discussion! Nice to see your faces :) It would be even better w/good audio/lighting!

Yet there are actresses over 50 actresses who still have thriving careers, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Sissy Spacek, Ellen Burstyn, Sigourney Weaver, yet these ladies have actual talent to maintain a long career.

Loving the format with discussion at the ends!

It's hard out here to be an actress. You have to love it or you won't survive it. I say that from firsthand experience. You don't last or you'll need frequent space to survive such an out of your control career. It can hurt you bad to live life as others for others through other's eyes & visions. The business & bureaucracy alone can take you out some days. But when you love it... and you can see yourself blossom in that love... man, there's nothing like it... ❤️

@TheTake Is there a video about how men crossing dressing as women is "Silly Adventures Time!" And how women crossdressing as men is "time to get a serious education and war medal"?

I'd love to see a video on the Religious Zealot, most of which being women.

I’m happy that Mainstream Hindi Cinema has some brave women who do some amazing work well into their 40s and 50s.

It would be really nice if you put link to the IMDB page of the movies you mention

It would be interesting to see the "Method Actor Who Goes Too Far" Trope

Can you please either add the title of the movie snippets when you show them or provide that info in the video description? Quite often I don't know what the snippet is from and don't recognize the actor so I can't look it up on imdb. Thank you. Love your videos.

13:50 "The Comeback" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love this show

Please do a Slavic trope in movies, unfortunately they are always shown as Russian speaking mafia crooks, killers, war deserters and in that vein. They keep mixing people from different Slavic countries and the stereotype of the countries and what they look like is really devastating.

Please make the Twins trope!! 🙌❤️✨

This is BRILLIANT. Thank you.

Love the mention of Sally from Barry! Can you please make a video on Barry ?

I loved the unscripted dialogue at the end!

I'm grateful as an actor (sometimes) that I've never been the engenue type. I usually tend to get engenue-supportive roles (best friend to the best friend or someone with their own arc altogether), or villain/antihero roles in a few cases. For my money they're much more interesting, and I'm so glad that my job isn't to just serve as some male fantasy. If I have a greater future in acting, being a character actor is probably it, and that suits me fine. That being said, I do feel bad for actresses who are judged primarily on their looks in the opposite sense, and are told that's all that they can be and are limited by the system as a result. They don't deserve to be judged only by their looks, just as much as I don't.

I can't believe I'm one of the first people to watch and enjoy this video.❤️✨

I LOOOOOOVE " THE TAKE"! INTERESTING FEMINIST-BASED SOCIOLOGICAL VIDEO ESSAYS ABOUT AMAZING MOVIES?! GIVE ME MOOOORE! so good, SO intelligent, AND introduces me to movies and shows i wouldn't normally know about. Thanks "the take"!

Please make a video about the “singer” trope and how movies and shows portray the dark side of the music industry.

Could you do about the cutting your hair as ending a cycle or going through something trope and how it’s actually a male gaze and not only about breaking stereotypes and empowering

you guys do such great work! thank you!

im on a the take binge... tastes good though :)

can you write a videoessay about the female writer trope? c: ty

another A+ video! love your channel the most. One thing i would’ve loved to see in this video is the possible intersection of race and actressness. This video featured and was focused on white women almost exclusively, and i think that’s fine, as long as you touch on it.

I can‘t believe they didn‘t mention Penny from Big Bang Theory in this video, not even once! 😂

i love the after convos!