Janelle Brown, a member of the organisation, told BBC London: “We came to the Suffragette premiere today because the struggle is definitely not over… We still live in a society that is sexist and that goes throughout history”.
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At the press conference she responded to the backlash with a passage from Suffragette, in which she plays the iconic British women’s rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst who fought for social change at the turn of the 20th century.
According to the British newspaper more than 100 activists were there to protest recent government cuts to domestic violence services. Mulligan is joined by an impressive cast – the likes of Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter – who act as pillars to the revolution, each of whom showed a dedication to their role evident in the quality of their acting. People have asked us would you protest now, would you throw a rock?
Morgan, who penned The Iron Lady and Shame, said: “Film does take time, however I think film that is fronted by not one but an ensemble of women – and they’re not being funny – is hard”. I would like to be as brave as that. I submit to you that men and women are not the same, but if the Tomato meter is slidded so completely to cater to one group of tastes then the box office reflects that.
“I went deep, deep, deep, deep, and I counted how many contributors there were – critics and bloggers and writers” she said, and what she found was alarming. “Hopefully the film will inspire anybody who feels an injustice has been done, to be bold enough to protest”. “It’s the perfect response to our film”.
She said in an interview with ELLE magazine: ‘I’ve always wanted to be a mother.
Promoting Suffragette, Meryl Streep spoke about her efforts for women’s equality, and about the need for more female movie critics.
The words were taken from a speech by Ms Pankhurst from 1913 demanding votes for women.
Critics of the shirt argue that its mention of slavery is minimizing and even ignoring the seriousness of chattel slavery that African slaves were forced to endure not long before the women’s suffrage movement began.
Time Out responded in a statement: “The original quote was intended to rouse women to stand up against oppression”.
“It should be a conversation but I would never want that to overshadow the intention of the film which was intended to empower people and not to hurt anyone”.
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Streep was speaking at the London Film Festival after a screening of Suffragette, her new film about the campaign of civil disobedience that helped secure women the right to vote after the First World War.
