Teyana Taylor is standing tall in the spotlight, defending her Golden Globe–winning performance in One Battle After Another. Critics say her character Perfidia is overly sexualized, but Taylor insists the role is strategic—a survival tool rather than exploitation. She pointed out that Perfidia handles a gun before anything else and only leans into sexuality when it furthers her revolutionary mission—especially as she grapples with postpartum depression and society’s expectations of Black women. Taylor hopes audiences see her not as a caricature, but as a complex badass whose sexuality is weaponized, not fetishized.