Tiffany Haddish is having one hell of a year. After her breakout role in last year’s Girls Trip, Haddish released a comedy special, wrote a book, hosted SNL, lined up a TV show from the creators of Bojack Horseman, a movie with Melissa McCarthy and Elizabeth Moss, and served as one half of the best presenter team from this year’s Oscars. Everything’s coming up Haddish!
It’s now been announced that she’s signed onto another project, and it’s one we’re super excited for: Haddish will be starring in the upcoming LEGO Movie 2. As is usually the case with blockbusters, any and all details about her role are being kept under wraps. But I don’t care. Let her play any role. Let her play all the roles! This is exciting news.
We were already looking forward to the sequel to The LEGO Movie. Like many others, I loved the first one, but was disappointed by the lack of decent female roles. For years, though, Lord and Miller have acknowledged the validity of those complaints and promised to do better with the sequel. The project has cycled through a number different writers and directors, but hopefully the finished product retains that commitment to exploring issues of representation.
Last year, executive producer Chris McKay said that this sequel will focus heavily on exploring gender bias and how it manifests in children’s toys. In depicting how the character of Finn, the boy from the live-action sequences of the first movie, interacts with his younger sister, the sequel will look at “What’s different and similar about gender, when a boy plays vs. how a girl plays? What kinds of stories are there?”
He went on to say, “I’m really excited about where the movie is gonna go because it’s about these things that are actual notions that people have that might even be unconscious biases, where people don’t even realize that that’s the way they’re looking at the world.”
A LEGO Movie starring Tiffany Haddish that focuses on issues of gender bias? It feels like a dream.
LEGO Movie 2 is currently scheduled for a February 2019 release.
(via Variety, image: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
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