Zooey Deschanel refuses to be called a crazy dream girl. The term, now a dated stereotype in film and television, became a staple in the mid to late 2000s to describe quirky female characters whose main goal was to save their male counterpart or teach them the meaning of love and life.
Deschanel became the face of the geek’s dream girls thanks to her role opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “500 Days of Summer,” a metaphor she’s never seemed to be able to escape during her career. Although her character in the Fox comedy “New Girl” was more of an embodiment than the typical mad dream girl, Deschanel’s trademark quirkiness has always made her critics call her that way. Along with Deschanel in “500 Days of Summer,” famous examples of metaphor are Natalie Portman in “Garden State” and Kirsten Dunst in “Elizabethtown.”
“I don’t feel like it’s accurate,” Deschanel said when a fan asked her about the Mad Dream Girl poster (via Watchman). “I’m not a girl. I’m a woman. It doesn’t hurt my feelings, but it’s a way to make a woman one-dimensional and not one-dimensional.”
“I think the trend still makes women one-dimensional, so you have to add a dimension, if you can,” Deschanel added. “The more time a female character is seen on screen, the more space there is for the intricacies to emerge, but there has been a shift, so I’m optimistic.”
Deschanel recently returned to television to co-host “The Celebrity Dating Game”. The actor’s next role is starring in director Carlos Saldanha’s “Harold and the Purple Crayon” by Sony Pictures. The cast also includes Zachary Levi, Lil Ral Horie, and Ravi Patel.
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