Yeah, but what I find very contentious about those fairy tales is that they are all pivoted on perfection and transformation, meaning the princess needs to be an innocent – a perfect innocent, you know? And then it sort of embodies a male idea of the female role. And, you know, she needs to be pure and altruistic, and she doesn’t seem three-dimensional to me. She doesn’t seem complex. And we take care of it in the movie in many ways, including showing that she has her own sex life in a lonely way – or in alone away, but not lonely, you know? And we also give her a life that is not grand, but very fulfilling.

And we don’t transform the creature. We don’t transform it into a boring prince at the end of the movie so that they can be together forever. He stays in its carnal form – an animal. And he still has a very controversial diet of raw protein that includes cats, you know? And he doesn’t get civilized and eat a cat with a fork and a knife.

It still is what it is because to me, if we’re going to talk about love, we’re going to talk about understanding, not transformation