Tenet’s Elizabeth Debicki Responds To Criticisms About Her Character And Whether She’s A‘Victim’
The damsel in distress trope is all too common in movies. Used as a plot device, it features a woman kidnapped by a villain so that a hero (or heroes) who is often male can go rescue her. To a degree, Elizabeth Debicki agrees that her character is a “victim” to a degree, according to THR, but she also argues that her character becomes much more than that throughout the movie and eventually takes charge of her own life: