You've intentionally missed the entire point.
You're naming films that either from decades-old franchises that were guaranteed to be massive hits OR from the director of Titanic.
Here's a hint, when you go through dozens of examples and you have an excuse for every single one, as in a plethora of separate and independent excuses, you have a pattern of excuses. One excuse is ok, but when all you have is excuses (ten years old ! franchise ! marvel ! titanic ! disney ! ), you're not looking at exceptions you're looking at a pattern of excuses, and thus you should re-think things.
The point is that for all the "women are under-represented in Hollywood" rhetoric, they occupy the lead role of nearly every original IP in the action genre, traditional a "masculine" genre.
Now you're manufacturing fantasy arguments.
Here's the reality, almost all movies are male-led
https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/index.html
That's all movies, including non-franchises, movies not directed by James Cameron, etc. It's overwhelmingly male-dominated.
Two of which, Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron are the highest-paid female actresses in the world and the latter was 10 million upfront for her role in the huntsman.
I thought we weren't allowed to quote old IPs or franchises guaranteed to be massive hits? lol.
My parents never had much money when us kids were young either and I've never, not f*****g ONCE in my life, been handed anything for being "white", but I'll be damned if I haven't been accused repeatedly of having some sort of special advantage over everyone not white. Well, I'm still waiting for something great to happen by virtue of being a straight, white male, David.
You've been handed a lot, you're just oblivious to it or in denial of it. You see your disadvantages but not your advantages.
• A black man would not have been able to hold the most powerful office in the world for two terms
Oh my god, out of dozens of recent G7 leaders, one of them was half-black .... racism is over !!!
The half-Black Obama -- and a lot of Black people I've met consider him white -- was a great
symbol for the US. You describe him as the most powerful man in the world but he was hardly a Richard Nixon, he implemented the agenda that the financial sector, the state department, etc wanted him to implement while giving nice speeches and looking good doing it. He virtually never deviated from the script or used his power for independent ideas. Yes he was half-Black, but he did not implement a half-Black agenda.
Now Obama can get paid $400,000 per speech. Can you tell why that is? Do you think it's because his speeches educate people? No, it's so that in the future, other presidents and politicians know that there's a financial reward waiting for them if they follow the script. Clinton became a millionaire too. Jimmy Carter did not.
Meanwhile, violence against Blacks went up in the USA. There are countless videos available of police spontaneously beating up Black people. George Zimmerman, who is not even a policeman, can randomly stalk and then shoot a black teen in the USA and then he becomes a celebrity. Whereas a white guy like you can smoke weed and nothing will happen to him, if a Black person is caught smoking weed it can mean decades in jail.
You know what is privilege, though? Getting paid just to be native along with "promised education", not having to die on a battlefield if you don't want to just because you have a vagina and complaining because there aren't quite as many millionaires with darker skin tones in Hollywood when fewer than 1% of white people, who are the majority in the countries that produce the most high-budget films, are Hollywood millionaires.
Being a native is a privilege? Do you expect anyone to believe that it'd be better to be a native than to be white in Canada?
Like you, I have also worked in Canada's natural resource sector. I was in mining engineering for a while, friends went into that or the oilpatch or into consultancy. It's a very racist environment full of racist people. I also know all about natives sometimes getting guaranteed jobs. There were often quotas for native workers, for example if mines were built on native land.
You see that and you think "it's better to be a native." Ummmm, no, if you're born in Canada, it's overall much better to be born white when you integrate over the big picture. On average white people have more money at birth, and better access to social services and broader culture, and are less impacted by racism.