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Actress Wood in »Westworld«: Android on a campaign for revenge
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Her fight against sexual and psychological violence occasionally "overlaps" with the roles she plays, wrote the New York Times in 2018 about actress Evan Rachel Wood.
You can of course put it that way.
In the three seasons of the science fiction series Westworld, which started almost four years ago and can be seen in Germany on Sky among others, Wood embodies an android named Dolores, who is regularly and brutally abused by visitors to an amusement park.
Gradually, Dolores develops an awareness, then she goes on a spectacular campaign of revenge.
In »Kajillionaire«, her latest feature film directed by Miranda July, Wood portrays a grown young woman who was trained to be a thief by her loveless crook parents from an early age and who one day revolted angrily and cunningly.
Evan Rachel Wood, who now speaks openly about the alleged abuse by her ex-partner Marilyn Manson aka Brian Warner, is one of the greatest and most idiosyncratic actresses in the American film and series business.
Wood had her breakthrough as a teenager in 2003 in Catherine Hardwicke's youth drama "Thirteen" in the role of a good model student who suddenly finds herself in a swamp of sex and drugs.
She has since played with Michael Douglas (in "King of California", 2007), Mickey Rourke (in "The Wrestler", 2008) and Ryan Gosling (in "Ides of March", 2011).
She was seen in a spectacular video by the rock band Green Day ("When September Comes", 2006) and also in a film by Woody Allen ("Whatever Works", 2009).
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