Director Denis Villeneuve told press that at one point he was pressured to rewrite Blunt’s role to be a male character- “The screenplay was written some years ago, and people were afraid that the lead part was a female character, and I know several times [Taylor Sheridan] had been asked to rewrite the role.
When I got involved, the script was as it is, and I embraced it, as did [producers] Black Label and Thunder Road. But the pressure came before, and these guys had the guts to keep it as it was.”
