As a new wave of denunciations of sexual violence shakes the world of cinema, actress Sigourney Weaver said Friday that the #MeToo movement has allowed women “to feel the right to say no”.
#MeToo has created “a big difference” for “women (…) in the way we feel the right to say no, to say stop”, she declared from Spain, during a conference press on the eve of the Goya ceremony, the equivalent of the French Caesars, which is held on Saturday in Valladolid (north-west), where she is to receive an honorary prize for her entire career.
“We knew that the #Me Too movement was not going to change things overnight” but “I am happy that this sector is talking more and more about all these cases” of sexual violence, indicated the actress of 74 years, welcoming the fact that “women are denouncing this situation, this abuse, ensuring that the industry is safer for other women”.
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A statement which comes as Spanish cinema is shaken by several cases of sexist and sexual violence.
In an investigation by the daily El Pais, three women accuse the filmmaker Carlos Vermut, a figure of independent cinema, of sexual violence.
Another director, Armando Ravelo, was accused by an artist of "inciting" her to have sex when she was just 14 years old.
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In France, actress Judith Godrèche has just filed a complaint against directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, denouncing sexual abuse that occurred when she was a minor.