Gina is understandably traumatized from how Bojack abused and strangled her, and she is justified in her discomfort around stunts etc.

However I noticed on my latest rewatch some possible B Plot / subtext on her journey - when she’s finally the star, she’s standoffish and rude to those around her (separate from trigger moments - while she’s in safe spaces), and she reminds everyone she gets to do that because she’s first on the call sheet. She’s the star and that’s her privilege as such.

I get the impression that Gina has internalized all the abuse she’s endured throughout the industry generally as her ‘rite of passage’, and now that she’s a star, she feels she is entitled to berate and bully those around her as she was herself throughout her own career. Which sucks.

  • jeffthedunkerOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    She pulls rank with the director because she doesn’t want to do any stunts which weren’t pre approved as it was a stunt which led to her being choked on set

    Yep, this is the part that spawned the thought. i wasn’t paying close enough attention that it was specific to the change in stunts.

    /u/vuxlort makes a good point. the “diva” persona can be her mechanism to defend herself without have to justify her true feelings - feelings which maybe impossible given that she had to downplay and ignore being strangled