Feminist protesters jumped barriers as stars walked the red carpet for the London premiere of the film Suffragette.
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During BFI’s live stream of the event (see the video below) the protesters’ chants including “We are suffragettes” could be heard as the actors walked the red carpet and the festival’s presenter conducted interviews over the PA system.
Security pulled them apart and escorted them away, as seen on the video below.
Sisters Uncut added: ‘Two women a week die at the hands of violent men, yet, the government continues to remove vital funding for domestic violence support.
‘We believe that all women facing domestic violence should be able to access support and safety, ‘ said Janelle Brown, from Sisters Uncut.
“I’m glad our film has done something”, star Helena Bonham Carter told Sky News, the Guardian reported.
“While I am very much an ally to women and girls in the work for equality on all levels, I think we’ve got to be mindful of dissing others while calling for our own freedoms”.
Suffragette arrives in theaters on October 23. The actress said that men and women usually have different tastes in movies, but it is mostly men who weigh in their thoughts.
Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan, follows East End laundry woman Maud Watts, who became an activist before World War I.
Written by The Iron Lady’s Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron, Suffragette tells the story of the British women’s suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century as Emmeline Pankhurst led a call for female rights to be recognised. We chatted to producers Faye Ward and Alison Own about the current sexism within the film critics industry after Meryl Streep’s comments about Rotten Tomatoes’ appalling statistic: of 928 critics, only 168 are women.
“It is infuriating because people accept it as received wisdom …”
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There has been criticism after the stars, along with Romola Garai, wore promotional T-shirts for the film saying “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave”. Not only did she personally write to all members of congress to demand that they revive the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), but she also launched her own screenwriters’ programme for women over 40, which she said will accept new talents every year.
