they took her scenes away and gave them to another actress. I’d walk away too. I don’t get what you are reading at all. She didn’t lose a.role to Rodriguez. They changed the role they offered her. That is context not worth ignoring

Maybe I’ve read too far into her words in the Inverse article that it makes it seem like she had no problem marginalizing Rodriguez’s role, but that she mentions the fact that Rodriguez was hired at the time in her career when she had Oscar buzz surrounding her and that Jovovich’s own (general) buzz was years behind and then goes on to state that once she realized Rodriguez’s character had taken “all her big action scenes” she was angry/ready to walk until Anderson agreed to changes, it certainly doesn’t seem like it’s worth sympathizing over, whether or not she was reclaiming the role she was hired for.

The one thing the article does well is provide that slanted viewpoint. While it’s entirely possible (without obvious statements to the contrary) that Rodriguez didn’t care about the changes, it’s essentially the same situation. She was hired on and then her role was changed due to an angry co-star threatening to walk until the director personally heard them out.

Not following. She wasn’t making sure Rodriguez had the “small” role, she was making sure she had the role she already agreed to do. They changed the role on her when she wasn’t looking. Not sure how anyone could fault someone for trying to walk away from that. Nor feeling vulnerable when a franchise she put significant time and energy into (in spite of the final product quality) is cast aside and restarted so arbitrarily.

Being (understandably) upset is one thing, throwing a tantrum/threatening to walk until she ensured that Rodriguez came away with the “small” role compared to that of her own is another. When coupled with the news of her feeling burnt by Hollywood wanting to reboot the franchise so soon after she’d finished with it, it’s just hard to see her as a sympathetic figure.

If you got hired for a job, and then found out they demoted you to assistant between you agreeing to do it and your first day, you’d be upset as well.