More than a hundred protesters jumped the barriers onto the red carpet on Wednesday during the London premiere of Focus Features” “Suffragette’, as green and purple smoke bombs filled the air.
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Sisters Uncut describes itself as a “feminist group taking direct action for domestic violence services”. Other protesters used the premiere to call for equality in the government, waving banners with the slogan “50/50 Parliament”.
But rather than being upset they had invaded her big night, star Carey said she was happy to see the spirit of Suffragette playing out.
“I think it’s marvelous”, the United Kingdom newspaperThe Telegraph quoted Helena Bonham Carter as saying about the demonstrators.
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.
While it has not yet been confirmed whether the protest was in response to the film itself, it appears that it may have at least in a few part been inspired by its message.
The highly lauded Meryl Streep is dealing with serious backlash for a recent photo shoot for Time Out London promoting her film, “Suffragette”. “We are an unbalanced society – women and men – and films like this inspire conversations about how we can correct that imbalance”.
Anne-Marie said: “If you’re going to make a film about women’s civil rights let there be women screaming for them on a red carpet”.
“It’s slow and steady”. You can try and get something changed.
Maud is a housewife who, in defying her husband, played by Ben Wishaw, risks “losing custody of her children in the struggle for universal suffrage”. “The word isn’t “disheartening”, it’s “infuriating””, she said, noting that there are just 168 women compared to 760 men who contribute to the ratings on critic website Rotten Tomatoes. It doesn’t matter what bits of flesh we have – we are all equal. Sometimes they like the same things, but their tastes diverge.
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The film, which will be released in Britain on October 12 and the USA on October 23, ends with a poignant list of the dates women earned voting rights across the world, including Finland in 1906, France in 1944, Switzerland in 1971 and Saudi Arabia in 2015.
