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Kate Mara plays one of the leading roles in the new Fantastic Four reboot — a superhero called Susan Storm, no less — but somehow it’s her hair that has the world talking.
Back in June, the 32-year-old actress chopped her mid-length hair into a pixie cut. It looks great. We admired it. We moved on.
During a recent TV appearance promoting the movie, Mara said she was enjoying the convenience of short hair.
“I don’t have to wash it now. I don’t have to brush it. I love it,” she explained.
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Really, that should be the end of this story: “woman cuts hair because she is free to do what she wants with it”.
However, because society evidently refuses to accept that women don’t always choose to wear their hair long, the House of Cards star’s new look is stirring up all sorts of ~controversy~.
During a particularly excruciating interview this week, a US radio host called Stephen J Rickman decided to interrogate Mara — incessantly — about the catastrophic decision to lop off her precious lady hair. Because surely a woman wouldn’t choose to do something like that, would she?!
“You’re way, way hot,” he told her. “Why’d you cut the hair? Your hair was beautiful.” (Post continues after gallery.)
Other women who have dared to wear their hair short.
“I’m sorry. I know you don’t like it. I can tell,” Mara responded, before sarcastically quipping, “This is a great interview.” (I imagine at this very moment Mara was wishing she had Susan Storm’s powers of invisibility.)