An ode to Little Women's Jo March, a writer and bold rejector of gender roles, who has been encouraging girls to chase their dreams for more than a century
At first, Armstrong wasn’t convinced that Ryder would be right for the part of headstrong, tomboyish Jo; the actress had made her name in feminine roles that emphasized her ethereal beauty, in movies likeBut meeting Ryder changed the director’s mind. As Armstrong said in an interview, Ryder was “so smart, passionate, and funny”—so different from her aloof, mysterious movie persona.
As the credits rolled, the suits were singing a different tune. “They all cried,” Armstrong said. “That was my best audience screening ever: a room full of men in suits who cried for women.” When it was released,That’s in no small part thanks to Ryder’s Oscar-nominated interpretation of Jo—a young woman who’s simultaneously sweet and strange, fragile and tough, angry and joyous.
Hawke also did her homework before the shoot, researching the time period and the Transcendentalist movement that linked Alcott to other literary giants such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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