"“Isn't that sad? We're talking about 'the time of Me Too.' It got killed very quickly, which I think is very interesting. All that it was trying to say was that there are a lot of people with platforms who are able to speak up with relative safety and say, 'This has happened to me.' And the so-called average woman on the street is saying, 'Me too.' Why does that get shut down?”"
"“What it revealed is a systemic layer of abuse. Not only in this industry, but in all industries. And if you don't identify a problem, you can't solve it. I'm still on film sets and I do the head count every day, and it is still ten women and 75 men. Every morning. And I love men! But what happens is the jokes become the same. You just have to brace yourself slightly. I'm used to that.”"
"“I feel like I'm in the beginning of Tár,” joked moderator Didier Allouch. Clad in a black jumpsuit and pink-rimmed aviators, Blanchett did, in a sort of Tár-like way, ask everyone to put their phones down and “be present” (this did not happen)."
"The actress was in town primarily to talk about the Displacement Film Fund, which she co-founded to support displaced filmmakers and is now in its second year."
Cate Blanchett appeared at Cannes to discuss the Displacement Film Fund, which supports displaced filmmakers and is in its second year. The conversation shifted to her career, including clips from Tár, Lord of the Rings, and Carol. She commented on her experience as jury president in 2018, when she supported the Me Too movement. She criticized the phrase “time of Me Too” and said it was shut down quickly despite revealing that many people with platforms could speak safely while others could not. She described the issue as systemic abuse across industries and said identifying problems is necessary to solve them. She reported ongoing on-set gender imbalance and normalized harassment through repeated jokes and the need to brace oneself.
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