Cate Blanchett said the #MeToo movement “died very quickly” in Hollywood, speaking at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.In a wide-ranging interview, Blanchett lamented that #MeToo has turned the tide in Hollywood, where she has spoken out about gender equality.
Cate Blanchett on the #MeToo movement in Hollywood
“He died very quickly, which I think is interesting,” Blanchett said.“There are a lot of people who have platforms who are able to talk with relative safety and say this happened to me,” Blanchett said. “And the so-called common woman in the street, the person in the street, is saying Me too. Why is that closing?”According to Variety , he added, “What [the movement] It’s exposed a systemic layer of abuse, not just in this industry, but in every industry, and if you don’t identify a problem, you can’t fix the problem.”
Cate Blanchett on men dominating film sets
In 2018, as president of the Cannes jury, Blanchett took part 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. In the same period, 1,866 male directors have been elected.He pointed out that the imbalance of power between men and women in the film industry continues to this day, “I’m still on film sets and I do it every day. There are 10 women and there are 75 men every morning.”“I love men, but what happens is that the jokes become the same,” she said. “You have to squeeze something in, and I’m used to that, but it’s boring for everyone when you go into a homogenous workplace.”At the time of the Women’s March, Cannes organizers were being criticized for not doing more to publicly acknowledge the #MeToo and Time’s Up initiatives. “Women are not a minority in the world, however the current state of the industry suggests otherwise,” said Blanchett.
