Hayley Atwell: 'Cinderella' Isn't "About the Man Saving Her. It Is a Woman Saving Herself" — hollywoodreporter.com

Cinderella star Hayley Atwell says the live-action Disney adaptation veers away from the traditional telling of the story in which the handsome prince saves the girl from her life of suffering and persecution. In this adaptation, she saves herself.  In an interview with Radio Times, Atwell said Kenneth Branagh's remake had a "slightly different meaning. "Ken made it very clear that he didn't feel that Cinderella was about the man saving her. It is a woman saving herself through being courageous and kind … but she's stuck within the dynamics of the way society was run at the time." 

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