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 Weinstein is due to stand trial in January on charges of rape
and predatory assault of two women. He denies any non-consensual
sex.
Reuters asked actors, directors and producers how much Hollywood
has changed since October 2017. Below are their replies, edited
for length and clarity.
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS
"I’d like to say that I feel like men might be beginning to
behave themselves a little bit better, and I say maybe. I’m not
saying they have definitively, but there is a new way of
communicating, or a slightly new awareness, an awareness shift
that’s happened. It’s in process. This job is not done. It will
never be done, but I think there’s a way of communicating that
has improved, hopefully."
PATRICIA ARQUETTE
"The #MeToo movement - my sister was one of the first people to
come out - and I think it's had a ripple effect all across the
world, beyond Hollywood. Luckily there is more representation of
women and women of color on television than there was before,
but it's still not really equal yet ... Activists and people
have been trying to get this work done for a long, long time,
but the more we have this conversation, the more we ask for it,
the more we talk about the need for it, the better. You have
movies like 'Wonder Woman' and 'Black Panther' busting box
office records and then suddenly, all of a sudden, the world is
like 'Oh, right, they could be successful.' The business is
sometimes the last one to learn."
BRAD PITT
"We seem to work as a pendulum. We swing too far one way, then
we find that sweet spot, and then we go too far back and we keep
on this swing. But what is going on, which is positive, is that
we're recalibrating our relationships, behaviors and workplace.
It's long overdue and needed, and it's a good thing."
MICHELLE WILLIAMS
"I've seen so many changes within my industry, but not just
within my industry ... I see it at my daughter's school. I see
it in my friends' places of employment. I see it really
everywhere, and it gives me great faith that the world that
these girls are growing up in is going to be different than the
one that you and I grew up in."
ANGELINA JOLIE
"I think we have very far to go. I think even in Hollywood there
should have been an independent inquiry... There's a lot of
focus about what they say women want and I would say it's not
what we want. It's what we'd like not to be done to us. Do not
limit us to have an education, do not harm us whether it be at
war or in our own homes, do not oppress us or try to control us,
do not limit our possibilities as human beings and just let us
be."
KRISTEN STEWART
"There's this solidarity that is providing women with a chance
to start finally telling their own stories and not being used as
sort of tools to tell their stories through other people ...
There are so many untapped resources and ways in which we can
inhabit our own stories and repossess our narrative. (It) is
fully doable right now and for the first time, like ever, so it
is an exciting time for women in film, like, enormously."
CARA DELEVINGNE
"I think the #MeToo movement has changed a lot, but like a lot
of hashtag movements, the problem is that when you do a hashtag
or something, people think it's fixed. But it's not. It hasn't
really changed anything, because it's still happening."
ELISABETH MOSS
"For me (on movie ‘The Kitchen,’) we had (director) Andrea (Berloff),
three female leads, we also had (the) first female (director of
photography), and it's almost one of those things now that's
become natural because these women are the best at what they do,
and that's why they were there and not because they're women ...
It's just becoming more normalized, which I think is the best
part of it."
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NICOLE KIDMAN
"Charlize (Theron), Margot (Robbie) and I just did a film -
‘Bombshell’ - which is about instigating change in terms of sexual
harassment ... We hope that constantly talking about it changes it
for the generations to come."
JULIANNE MOORE
"Because of Time's Up, (New York) Governor (Andrew) Cuomo has
adopted the Time's Up safety agenda, which is really, really
significant for every woman in New York state. New York is a much
less progressive state than California, so when Time's Up New York
got together we thought, 'What do we address here in our home
state?' And we've really been able to make changes (including)
extend the statute of limitations on assault."
MICHELLE PFEIFFER
"I think there's been such a seismic shift in awareness in just a
year. I think there's a long way to go but I do think quite a bit
has happened already. Already all the conversations I've had with
women, we just didn't have those conversations before."
MELISSA MCCARTHY
"I think we're at the beginning of a movement, and I think we have
to keep pushing. You can talk a good game, but you have to wait
until it changes, so we're not there yet. We will be. You've got to
root for it. I'm a hopeful person. I have two daughters; I have to
be. I'll fight. I'll fight until I can't fight anymore."
ELLE FANNING
"For me, being a young woman in the industry and hearing actresses
tell their story and being able to hear those voices and know that
it's OK to speak your truth on things and stand up for what's right
and say no - it's a great community that has really formed because
of this."
KIRSTIE ALLEY
"When we did 'Cheers,' ... if someone was in the bathroom, someone
would kick open the door and we would take pictures, but the intent
was in fun. And if the intent is to hold you hostage or not give you
a job without sexual favors, you know the difference. But I think
that the pendulum swung and now it needs to swing and balance out
because people are not all ill-intentioned."
JULIETTE BINOCHE
"I have been quite free, always, in my choices in life. I didn't
need #MeToo to do that, but I think #MeToo's movement was very
important for some people, for some women to speak out."
RUTH NEGGA
"You really shouldn't be able to get away with inequality anymore.
The thing is that you've got to keep vocal about it; you've got to
be vigilant. It's not something that can ever be really done and
dusted until there is equality and everybody's voice is heard."
RICHARD LINKLATER
"It's just good everybody's aware. I mean, out with the old, right?
The old status quo can't hold. There has to be these evolutionary
leaps in what is acceptable."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross, Alicia Powell, Sarah Mills, Jane Ross and
Lisa Richwine; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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