To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Angie Dickinson’s groundbreaking primetime series “Police Woman,” the former police show star was joined last week by today’s leaders in the crime drama heroine genre.
“It has evolved. I had to do shower scenes all the time,” Dickinson said last week during the WE TV and Paley Center for Media panel, which sought to explore the evolution of the female in the niche TV market. “I felt exploited.”
And though Dickinson’s groundbreaking character was known for firing pistols, kicking in doors and busting the bad guys, she said the show worked meticulously to make sure the much-loved Pepper Anderson still appealed to a cross-section of American audiences.
“If we went too hard and made her too tough, people weren’t going to like that. I wasn’t Marilyn Monroe, but I was middle of the road and it worked,” she explained.
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“It has evolved. I had to do shower scenes all the time,” Dickinson said last week during the WE TV and Paley Center for Media panel, which sought to explore the evolution of the female in the niche TV market. “I felt exploited.”
And though Dickinson’s groundbreaking character was known for firing pistols, kicking in doors and busting the bad guys, she said the show worked meticulously to make sure the much-loved Pepper Anderson still appealed to a cross-section of American audiences.
“If we went too hard and made her too tough, people weren’t going to like that. I wasn’t Marilyn Monroe, but I was middle of the road and it worked,” she explained.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...police-woman-but-says-womens-roles-in-crimes/
