{"id":490067,"date":"2026-05-18T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:14:10","slug":"cate-blanchett-says-metoo-got-killed-very-quickly-in-hollywood-cate-blanchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490067\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett says #MeToo \u2018got killed very quickly\u2019 in Hollywood | Cate Blanchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cate Blanchett has lamented that the #MeToo movement \u201cgot killed very quickly\u201d in Hollywood, while speaking at the Cannes film festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging, staged conversation on Sunday, Blanchett lamented that the tide of #MeToo has been turned in Hollywood, where she has been outspoken about gender equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt got killed very quickly, which I think is interesting,\u201d said Blanchett.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere 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, person on the street, is saying me too. Why does that get shut down?\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, when she was president of the jury in Cannes, Blanchett took part in a red-carpet protest. She and 81 other women appeared on the steps of the Palais des Festivals<\/a>, representing the total number of female directors who had been selected for the Cannes competition lineup, compared with the 1,866 male directors who had been selected over the same period.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still on film sets and I do the headcount every day. There\u2019s 10 women and there\u2019s 75 men every morning,\u201d Blanchett said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love men, but what happens is the jokes become the same,\u201d she said. \u201cYou just have to brace yourself slightly, and I\u2019m used to that, but it just gets boring for everybody when you walk into a homogeneous workplace. I think it has an effect on the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The year Blanchett was president of the jury, Cannes was criticised for including only three films directed by women in its 21-film official selection lineup. Blanchett then defended the festival, saying that change was \u201cnot going to happen overnight\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

Julianne Moore also spoke at Cannes<\/a> on the weekend about gender disparity on film sets, saying she believe numbers had improved in the last decade.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Kering Women in Motion talk on Saturday, Moore recalled being one of two women on a set around 2016. \u201cI can remember being on a set not too long ago where the only women were me and the third AC [assistant camera],\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s when Hillary Clinton lost the election, and we were both devastated. And I said \u2018Look around the room. We\u2019re the only ones here.\u2019 I\u2019ve certainly seen more gender representation in crews. It was unusual, when I was coming up, to see women on a crew.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Blanchett revealed she will star in The Brutalist director Brady Corbet\u2019s next film<\/a>, an \u201cX-rated\u201d feature set in the 1970s, alongside Selena Gomez and Michael Fassbender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett has lamented that the #MeToo movement \u201cgot killed very quickly\u201d in Hollywood, while speaking at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-490067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116593640431370417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}