![]() “No one wants to read a book about difficult women,” she was told over and over when she initially pitched the manuscript to publishers back in 2005. Such questions have trailed Flynn for more than a decade. “There are a lot of celebrated, self-destructive male leads out there, but it’s going be very interesting to see a woman really wrestling with her demons like that.” ![]() ![]() “I can’t think of a more complicated female lead,” he says of the first drama he bought when his purview expanded in early 2016. And, per its programming president, Casey Bloys, for good reason. ![]() In fact, conversations about whether audiences were ready or willing to see a woman maim herself have been had more than once at the premium cable network. When Sharp Objects premieres July 8 on HBO, with Adams, 43, playing Camille, it enters a landscape in which such darkness traditionally has been reserved for male leads. ![]()
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