SIGOURNEY WEAVER REPLACES MALE TV EXECUTIVE

Sigourney Weaver was hired to replace a male actor playing a television executive in The TV Set.

Sigourney Weaver stars in The TV Set as Lenny, the female television executive overflowing with male testosterone who oversees the filming of writer David Duchovny’s The Wexler Chronicles for pilot season.

Even though the part was originally written for a man, Sigourney asked writer director Jake Kasdan not to change a word.

“There was a wonderful actor, male actor who had to drop out and we had the same agent so the agent said, ‘what about Sigourney,’ and Jake sent me the script which I adored and I said I’d love to do this but please don’t change a word of it just because I’m a woman. Because I think having an executive who’s obsessed with whether women’s breasts are real or not is funnier if you’re a woman and probably have fake breasts.”

Sigourney’s character runs the network by the whims of her teenage daughter rating the male leads by their hotness factor. Sigourney says women are not exempt from behaving badly when it comes to objectifying men in the workplace.

“This whole idea with women’s lib that women might humanize the workplace and bring a different set of values to it turned out to be so wrong. I think in Hollywood as in other places women can objectify actors and performers more than men even. They have to be twice as ruthless and they have to be twice as steely, etc.”

Sigourney recently completed an HBO television project Gypsy and Me playing the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee after her burlesque days.