Disney’s new “Star Wars” showrunner Leslye Headland has been raising eyebrows with her latest comments about her upcoming female-centric, Sith-focused series.
So, we took a deep dive into her past projects and the comments she’s made over the years to get an idea about the woman described as the “Queen of Raunch Comedy.”
Harvey Weinstein And The Seven Deadly Sins
Early in her career, Headland worked under disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as his assistant for one year during her time at Miramax.
In 2012, Headland said that Weinstein influenced her “raunchy female comedy” “Bachelorette,” which was first a play and later her debut film, The Hollywood Reporter reported. It was part of her Seven Deadly Sins play series, this one dealing with gluttony.
Next, she developed another part of her sins play series called “Assistance,” this one dealing with greed, THR noted. Later, she did “Cult of Love,” Stage Scene LA reported, where she takes aim at the sin of pride, “particularly that of self-proclaimed ‘Christians’ who would counsel praying away the gay, blame a couple’s miscarriage on their godlessness, and refuse antidepressants the better to keep on hearing voices straight from the Big Guy himself,” the…
