In the new Netflix movie Moxie, Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” is used as a rallying cry for today’s tormented teen girls today, admonishing them to rise up against their high school oppressors and resist whatever bullshit society is already laying on them. It’s a perfect choice, and one that director Amy Poehler tells us came with Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna’s explicit blessing.
Poehler’s genuine love for Hanna is clear in the video above, which also finds the SNL vet expounding on the value of female rage, and Moxie stars Lauren Tsai and Hadley Robinson talking about their favorite “smash shit up” songs.
If you’re itching for more, in the video below, we catch up with two of Moxie’s other stars—Nico Hiraga and Alycia Pascual-Peña—to talk how the two learned to embrace feminism from a young age, as well as how they’re currently working for social justice.
Moxie is available to stream now on Netflix.
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Whoa, Lauren Tsai from Terrace House! Good for her.It’s got Tsai, Poehler, Bikini Kill,…I might have to watch this.
Cool cool (extremely cool) interview. Can’t wait to see this.
Just watched this last night. I liked it. It’s definitely rough around the edges and a lot of the character notes in the script are pretty rushed, but it feels really genuine and all the actors are really living in their roles. That point about female anger is spot on. The film does a great job of showing how powerful women, Black, Brown, and other marginalized people can be when they give themselves permission to express their rage.
Cute movie and definitely worth watching. However….… it’s yet another movie about female empowerment where the protagonist is ultimately yearning for male approval. Why not just leave the final bit at the end where she’s gazing at her love interest to make sure he’s OK with what she’s doing.