A protest broke out during the screening of “Suffragette” on the opening night of the BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square.
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Morgan, who wrote The Iron Lady in which Streep played Margaret Thatcher, said the film had been “hard” to get made because it was fronted by “an ensemble of women” who were “not being amusing or romantic”. The New York Film Critics Circle had 37 men and two women.
The Guardian said this reply disappointed campaigners against Hollywood sexism, especially after Streep’s “Suffragette” co-stars Carey Mulligan and Romola Garai said without hesitation that they were feminists.
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.
The cast of Suffragette praised the protesters for their actions – speaking to Sky News, Bonham Carter explained: “I’m glad our film has done something”. “For these women to do that tonight, I think that’s awesome”. “That’s exactly what it’s there for”, said the actress who, ironically, is the great granddaughter of former Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, a key target for the suffragettes at the time. I’m excited that in the London Film Festival there are 46 feature films directed by women [Streep claps her hands]. Suffragette star Helena Bonham Carter was shocked by the protesters yet remained calm as she continued signing fan autographs and posing for the cameras.
Maud at first is shocked but captivated by the broken windows, but soon realises she has the power to break free from her rapist boss, whose abuses she initially suffers in silence. She is scorned by her husband and neighbours, and is soon left without her son. Suffragettes, or members of women’s rights organization, helped secure the vote for women in the United Kingdom in 1918 following years of activism. “The story of women in the past and the present is vital and it represents our life”.
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‘We believe that all women facing domestic violence should be able to access support and safety, ‘ said Janelle Brown, from Sisters Uncut. “I submit to you that men and women are not the same, they like different things”, the award-winning actress told The Daily Beast. It is quite another to take a very dated thought (that is at best insensitive to the African diaspora and at worst a blatant and taunting use of white privilege) and emblazon it on a t-shirt in the 21 century. “I wasn’t taught anything about it and later read a few lines at the bottom of a history book”. “If men don’t look around the the board of governors table and feel something is wrong when half the people there are not women then we’re not going to make any progress”, she told BBC.
