Skip to main contentWould you like watch a short film shot in Portland, starring Evan Rachel Wood and featuring appearances by Kim Gordon, Robin Lopez and Beth Ditto?
Of course you would. Or should I say, Evan Rachel Would?
That's the title of this collaboration between Southeast Portland clothing company Wildfang, creative agency Sockeye and director James Westby. The elevator pitch is basically, "A female-fronted remake of the Jim Carrey classic Yes Man." Inspired by Kim Gordon's new memoir, Girl In A Band, Wood embarks on a day of saying "yes" (or, rather, "Evan Rachel would") to whatever comes her way—be it partaking in a children's play, attending a mascot training camp with Blazers center (and noted mascot hater) Robin Lopez, or challenging Gossip singer Beth Ditto in a karaoke throwdown at the Alibi.
Why does this exist? Well, Wood has collaborated with Wildfang owners Emma McIlroy and Julia Parsley on an exclusive "Evan Rachel Would" T-shirt benefiting the Friends of the Children charity. It's a mostly enjoyable four minutes (mostly for the young girl in the production of Romeo and Juliet who tells her unenlightened male costar, "Romeo, conventional femininity is a choice, not a mandate"). I Wood watch again. Did I do that right?
WWeek 2015