2024-05-15 16:24:00
Talking at Cannes, the actor mentioned that earlier than extra ladies received greenlight jobs in Hollywood, executives had struggled to see themselves in feminine roles
Wed 15 Could 2024 18.24 CEST
The merciless and unwelcoming trend journal editor on the icy coronary heart of 2006 comedy hit The Satan Wears Prada might not strike many viewers as Meryl Streep’s most relatable function.
However in a stage interview on the Cannes movie pageant the veteran movie actor revealed that her flip as Miranda Priestly, the boss from hell, was the primary function she performed that induced males to come back as much as her followingwards and say they knew precisely how she felt.
“It was multiple man that got here and mentioned, ‘I understand how you felt. I do know what it’s prefer to be the one to take the selections. And no person understands you,’” mentioned Streep, who obtained an honorary Palme d’Or on the world’s largest movie pageant on Tuesday evening.
An extended-time campaigner for equal pay within the movie trade, Streep mirrored that the persistent gender pay hole in Hollywood was “not all the time nearly cash”, however linked to male viewers’ and male movie executives’ issues seeing themselves mirrored in feminine roles.
Breakthrough function … Meryl Streep in The Satan Wears Prada. {Photograph}: Allstar
“Films are a projection of individuals’s goals, and even executives have goals,” Streep instructed a packed auditorium on the Théâtre Debussy. “They’re residing their fantasy. Earlier than there have been ladies in greenlight positions at studios, it was very arduous for males to see themselves in a feminine protagonist.”
Whereas Streep mentioned she discovered it simple to see herself in male lead characters, corresponding to these of Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in her private breakthrough movie The Deer Hunter, it was “the toughest factor” for a male to determine with a feminine lead actor.
The star of Sophie’s Alternative, Kramer vs Kramer and Mamma Mia! mentioned the state of affairs had modified significantly since extra feminine executives had been in high positions within the movie trade.
“There’s some progress,” she mentioned. “The largest stars on this planet are ladies proper now, though Tom Cruise might be method excessive.
“So many ladies are producing for themselves,” Streep, 74 ,added. “And I’m so in awe of those who’ve accomplished that.”
In 2015, Streep wrote to particular person members of the US Congress urging them to assist laws for equal pay. Drawing from information for movies between 1980 and 2015, economists on the College of Huddersfield in 2019 discovered that male Hollywood stars earned $1.1m extra per movie than their equally skilled feminine co-stars.
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