Daily Inspiration Quote by Izabella Scorupco

There is something disarmingly blunt in Scorupco framing “the fantasy to kill the beast” as “very much a men’s thing.” She’s not talking about literal violence so much as the cultural script that sells masculinity as heroic confrontation: a clean, cinematic story where danger is external, singular, and solvable with force. “Beast” is useful because it’s vague; it can be the villain, the threat, the chaos, the unknown. The fantasy isn’t just winning - it’s getting to narrate yourself as the one who ends it.

Coming from an actress best known for action-adjacent roles, the line reads like a backstage note about why certain plots keep reproducing themselves. Blockbusters have trained audiences to crave a particular kind of catharsis: the monster dies, order returns, the hero is confirmed. Scorupco’s gendered framing hints at who’s historically been granted that catharsis on screen and in life, and who’s been cast instead as the prize, the witness, or the moral compass.

The subtext is also a quiet critique of emotional outsourcing. If the “beast” is fear, shame, or vulnerability, killing it is a fantasy of bypassing interior work. You don’t have to sit with complexity if you can conquer it. The line lands because it exposes the appeal and the cost: a myth that flatters men, entertains everyone, and keeps real messiness safely off-camera.