Sexism is still alive and well in Hollywood.
After all, when even thehighest-paid actress of 2014(and EW’sEntertainer of the Yearfor 2015!)
“It’s important that this battle is fought on all fronts,” theSelmadirector andBarbie doll inspirationsaid.
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Schumer summed it all up with characteristic bluntness when she hostedSaturday Night Livefor the first time in September.
she said inher opening monologue.
“And I’m like, ‘No.'”
She has also spoken out about the need for complex and dynamic women onscreen.
And her dream role?
“People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl,“she said in October.
“No, I want to be the villain.”
“It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry,” she said.
“And then it made me laugh.”
Spoken like a true gladiator.
“It means equal rights.
If you’re doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.”
Sorry to tell you.”
“Let’s not assume women don’t want in on [blockbuster] movies,” Meyers said.
“Women can direct dinosaurs.”
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“We are empowering each other.”
“It’s an intense sickness,“she told EW.
“Hollywood is disgustingly sexist,” Stewart said simply.
“It’s so offensive it’s crazy.”
“It’s such a weird question,” she said.
“Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are.”
“Surely not another girl can wield a gun,“she joked to Indiewire.
If only so many studio execs didn’t actually think that way.
“It’s simple ignorance,” she reiterated.
It’s what’s in it.”
“The thing I find so frustrating is calling women spoiled brats and bes.”
“It’s so pathetic.”
“Creativity is genderless.
As humans, we need to see ourselves.”
Rose McGowan
McGowan isn’t shy about calling out Hollywood’s bulls.
“I say: Forget that.
That doesn’t matter.
Change roles for women in life, and you will find the roles for women in drama.”
But quite frankly, she’s kind of over the whole debate at this point.
“Films with women at the center are not a public service project,” she said.
“They are a big-time, bottom line-enhancing, money-making commodity.”
“This is a movement to say we’re more than just our dresses.”
Jennifer Lawrence’sAmerican HustlecostarBradley Cooperexpressed his supportof her wage gap essay.
“There’s a double standard in the whole world,” he said.
It’s kind of obvious.”
“Alan Rickman, too, embraces the feminist label.
“And do I live in a world and certainly in a business that is incredibly unfair to women?
Yes, I do.”
