Feminist protesters campaigning against domestic violence stormed the red carpet at the premiere of “Suffragette”, which tells the story of British women who fought for the right to vote in the early 20th century.
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“About a dozen women jumped over the barrier, laid down on the red carpet and linked arms and started shouting, “David Cameron take note, dead women can’t vote”.
“It’s about if you’ve got something that you feel passionately about and feel that there’s an injustice being done, to protest and to be heard”.
In an extended statement on their website, Sisters Uncut explained their opposition to government cuts: “Doors are being slammed on women fleeing violence”.
Time Out said that the message was clear for people “who read the piece”, claiming that out of at least a half a million readers from the United Kingdom, they’d received no complaints.
To gasps from the audience, Morgan said she had been dropped as a screenwriter from a film project only two or three years ago “because I was told I didn’t know how to flirt with the director”.
Protesting aside, the premiere went on as normal and the film will run as part of the BFI London Film Festival until October 18th.
“I’m glad our film has done something”.
“I think it’s marvellous”, said Bonham Carter.
Romola Garai responded in a relaxed way, saying: “I haven’t spoken to them or seen their demands but I’m happy to see the suffrage movement is alive and happening”.
Meryl Streep is taking movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes to task for a lack of female film critics. “That’s exactly what it’s there for.’ She added that the protest was the ‘perfect” response to the film.
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A few protestors, like Latifa pointed out that the film didnt represent women of colour, stating: Its timely because the cast of the film is entirely white and they are running with this slogan, Id rather be a rebel than a slave which implies passivity or acceptance of being a slave. “Our group is open to all women (trans, intersex and cis), all those who experience oppression as women (including non-binary and gender non-conforming people) and all those who identify as women for the goal of political organising”.
