Alex Bailey
“I wish I could help every girl. But for now, I am enough.”
It’s a tale as old as time. In the first trailer for Lena Dunham’s new movie Catherine Called Birdy, Young Lady Catherine, aka Birdy (Bella Ramsey), is under the harsh scrutiny of her father Sir Rollo (Andrew Scott). She’s a woman—his daughter!—so she must follow his orders and wed the man of his choosing. Case closed.
But Birdy has another plan in mind. Though her father has a penchant for money, treating his poor daughter like a commodity to trade at the market, Birdy loves her freedom just as much. She refuses to get married, especially to some old creep who shows up at her doorstep! Any teenager in their right mind would reject some random dude. Gross.