Sadly, Daphne on the other hand comes off as really
stereotyped damsel in distress and not in a good way.
Not exact matches
Newcomer Caren Pistorius also delights as a strong female presence
in the few scenes she shares, throwing the notion and preconceived
stereotypes of a
damsel in distress, to the wind.
She then moved into a slightly less demanding capacity playing a pseudo
damsel -
in -
distress in Guy Ritchie's throwback action - comedy The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Admittedly this role hewed much too close to
stereotype, though Vikander still made it work).
By inhabiting and almost overselling these cultural
stereotypes of women —
damsel in distress, dotty housewife, bombshell — Sherman effectively undermined the very cliches she set out to reproduce.