Speaking at a previous Cannes panel on gender equality , Salma Hayek was vocal on sexism in Hollywood. She said it won’t end until the film industry recognizes “how economically powerful women are”
Salma said that overall Hollywood is very ignorant when it comes to women and equality. “There’s only one thing that drives the power in the industry, and that’s money,” she said.
Can you believe that the only kind of film where women make more money than men is porn!! … they think the only value we bring to a movie is as an object.?!?!
Hayek argued that male actors get all the credit when a movie does well financially, noting that male leads often are granted the power to veto actresses set to appear alongside them.
Discussing her own experience, she said that she’s seen her characters’ lines get “dumbed down” so as not to upstage male actors.
“Hollywood undermines women’s intelligence”. “It’s been doing it forever”
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