Portia Doubleday On How ‘Mr. Robot’ Remains One Of The Most Feminist Shows On TV

BUSTLE – If you’ve ever added an unnecessary “sorry!” to soften a work email or gotten the third degree from your nosy aunt about putting career over starting a family, you know how it feels to be trapped in traditional expectations of womanhood. In USA’s hacker drama Mr. Robot, Portia Doubleday plays Angela Moss, someone who rejects those standards, becoming one of television’s most compelling characters in the process. But because she puts her own motivations first, the cool and collected Angela has been labeled by some with the dreaded, gendered b-word: b*tch. Because she’s a woman living in the world, Doubleday is bitterly aware of the double standard.
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