The #MeToo movement was “killed very quickly” in Hollywood, Cate Blanchett said during a speech Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.In a wide-ranging conversation, Blanchett lamented that the #MeToo wave has turned in Hollywood, as she spoke openly about gender equality.
Cate Blanchett talks about the #MeToo movement in Hollywood
“She was killed very quickly, which I think is interesting,” Blanchett said.
“There are a lot of people with platforms who are able to speak up with relative safety and say, ‘This happened to me,'” Blanchett said. “And the so-called average woman on the street, anyone on the street, says ‘MeToo.’ Why is that being stopped?”According to Variety, she added: “What [the movement] “A systemic layer of abuse has been exposed, not just in this industry but across all industries, and if you don’t identify a problem, you can’t solve the problem.”
Cate Blanchett talks about men controlling movie sets
In 2018, when she was jury president at Cannes, Blanchett participated in a red carpet protest. She and 81 other women appeared on the steps of the Palais des Festivals, symbolically representing the number of female directors selected for the Cannes competition lineup. During the same period, 1,866 male directors were selected.Noting that the power imbalance between men and women in the film industry persists to this day, she said: “I’m still on set and doing headcounts every day.
There are 10 women and 75 men every morning.“I love men, but what happens is the jokes become the same,” she said. “You just have to prepare a little bit, and I’m used to that, but it gets boring for everyone when you walk into a homogeneous workplace.”During the Women’s March, Cannes organizers were criticized for failing to do more to publicly acknowledge the #MeToo and Time’s Up initiatives. “Women are not a minority in the world, but the current state of the industry says otherwise,” Blanchett was quoted as saying.
