Director of the film, Olivia Wilde said in an interview
Terrifying. We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community. You know the incels?
They’re basically disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.
And they believe that society has now robbed them—that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place.
This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of their movement because he’s a former professor, he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.
Olivia Wilde’s family has some decent journalists in it. Her father is Andrew Cockburn and her uncle is Alexander Cockburn.
I hope the next film she directs is about how the CIA traffics drugs.
Pronounced coh-burn. Silly spelling, but they’ve written some great books about the American military and intelligence services.
