![]() ![]() "It's more a matter of looking at it from a female perspective," the Co-creator told CBR. Is Cursed a feminist King Arthur, then? Miller would prefer to let audiences make their own minds up. "With the character of Nimue, she's a wonderful vehicle for bringing the underlying magic of the legend to the surface, and really playing with it for all it's worth." "The role of women throughout the legend has always been bad and not paid proper attention," Frank Miller told CBR in a recent interview. ![]() Wheeler and Miller's Nimue, played by Katherine Langford, is similarly put into a leadership role when the Church's Red Paladins threaten to wipe the Fey - her race - from existence, dethroning Arthur as the central hero in the process. In fact, Cursed - whether intentionally or not - owes a huge debt to Bradley's novel, which transforms Morgaine into a freedom-fighting priestess who rallies the indigenous Celts against colonizing Christians to protect Paganism. RELATED: Cursed: Katherine Langford On Reinventing Nimue As A Modern, Fantasy Heroineīefore Cursed, the most significant overhaul of the legends came from Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, a radical feminist reimagining that added flesh to the bare-bones characterization of Morgaine (Morgan Le Fey). ![]()
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