From Charade to Mission: Impossible III, the wife who doesn’t know her husband is a spy has been a much used plot. But now it has a new twist
In The Spy Who Dumped Me, Audrey (Mila Kunis) gets ditched by text message. Egged on by her bestie, Morgan (Kate McKinnon), she is setting fire to her ex’s belongings when he shows up – only for him to be assassinated right in front of them. Yes, he was a spy. Saddled with the film’s MacGuffin, a flash drive, the two women flit between European capitals, dodging bullets, flirting with agents of both sexes and racking up an unexpectedly brutal body count for a comedy thriller.
Until recently, the role of the archetypal female in spy action thrillers was confined to providing the protagonist with a sexy one-night stand: wham, bam, thank you, ma’am, if she’s lucky. Or, if she isn’t, wham, bam and, oops, she has been drowned or shot or asphyxiated by gold paint or crude oil. If the women were wives or girlfriends, they got kidnapped or murdered, as if the heroes weren’t altruistic enough to save the world without a more personal motive to do the right thing.
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