No! It’s not about that,” Wright argues. “People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as a reference, but she was kind of selfish.” That’s a fair point: Jenny is not Voledmort because Forrest has no problem saying her name.

Robin Wright has hit back at critics who branded her Forrest Gump character Jenny as “anti-feminist”, describing her relationship with the film’s title character as “the sweetest love story.”

For years, Robin Wright's character Jenny from Forrest Gump has been branded as "anti-feminist" for her role as a woman who has had a history of child abuse which contributed to her drug use, sex work and eventually led to her death.