"“It got killed very quickly, which I think is interesting,” Blanchett stated. She questioned why the movement's impact appeared to wane, contrasting those with platforms and the general public. “There are a lot of people with platforms who are able to speak up with relative safety and say this has happened to me,” she observed. “And the so-called average woman on the street, person on the street, is saying MeToo. Why does that get shut down?”"
"“I'm still on film sets and I do the headcount every day. There's 10 women and there's 75 men every morning,” she revealed. Blanchett added: “I love men, but what happens is the jokes become the same. You just have to brace yourself slightly, and I'm used to that, but it just gets boring for everybody when you walk into a homogeneous workplace.”"
"In 2018, as president of the Cannes jury, she led a red-carpet protest alongside more than 80 other women, including Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Amber Heard and Marion Cotillard, symbolically representing the number of female directors selected for the festival's competition lineup against 1,866 male directors over the same period."
Cate Blanchett said #MeToo was “killed very quickly” in Hollywood and questioned why its impact appeared to fade. She noted that people with platforms can speak up with relative safety, while ordinary women still say “MeToo” but face shutdown. She reported persistent gender imbalance on film sets, describing daily headcounts of 10 women and 75 men. She said jokes become repetitive in a homogeneous workplace, requiring women to brace themselves, and that the environment becomes boring for everyone. She also referenced earlier activism for gender parity, including a red-carpet protest at Cannes representing the number of female directors versus a much larger number of male directors.
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