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Australian actor Cate Blanchett has lamented that the #MeToo movement “got killed very quickly” in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging, staged conversation at the Cannes Film Festival in southern France on Sunday (local time), Blanchett said the tide of #MeToo had turned in Hollywood, where she has been outspoken about gender equality.<\/p>\n

“It got killed very quickly, which I think is interesting,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There 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?”<\/p>\n

In Harvey Weinstein’s courtroom, #MeToo’s legacy was on trial<\/a><\/p>\n

Almost a decade after #MeToo began, disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s latest trial took place in a new climate. However, significance of the movement remains.<\/p>\n

In 2018, when the Oscar-winner was president of the jury in Cannes, Blanchett took part in a red-carpet protest.<\/p>\n

She and 81 other women appeared on the steps of the Palais des Festivals, representing the total number of female directors selected for the competition since its inception.<\/p>\n

Over the same period, 1,866 male directors had been selected.<\/p>\n

“I’m still on film sets and I do the headcount every day. There’s 10 women and there’s 75 men every morning,” Blanchett said.<\/p>\n

“I love men, but what happens is, the jokes become the same.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

The #MeToo movement was founded by activist Tarana Burke to support women and girls of colour experiencing sexual violence in the American South.<\/p>\n

It became a global movement in 2017 after actor Alyssa Milano used the phrase online following the first sexual assault allegations against former film producer Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

Nearly 100 women went on to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct spanning decades, allegations that helped trigger a broader reckoning across the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

Now, almost a decade later \u2014 and as jurors in Weinstein’s third New York rape trial<\/a> struggle to reach a unanimous verdict \u2014 the movement’s legacy has grown complicated.<\/p>\n

What was once hailed as a transformative cultural shift is now facing questions about how much lasting change Hollywood is willing to accept. But supporters of the movement say its significance remains.<\/p>\n

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