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Jessica Chastain is being praised for 'speaking truth to power' about how women are represented in film
ALL HAIL JESSICA Chastain.
Just weeks after throwing shade at Johnny Depp, she’s back criticising the film industry over its portrayal of women.
The two-time Oscar nominee was one of nine jurors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. At a press conference on Sunday, the actress spoke out about what she described as the “disturbing” representation of women in film.
“This is the first time I’ve watched twenty films in ten days and I love movies,” she told journalists. “And the one thing I really took away from this experience is how the world views women from the female characters that I saw represented and it was quite disturbing to me to be honest.”
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Many women from television and film took to social media to praise Chastain for her remarks and thank her for speaking “truth to power”.
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This is far from the first time that Jessica Chastain has been outspoken on gender issues.
In 2015, the actress penned an essay from the set of The Zookeeper’s Wife about her experience of working with a female director and female-dominated cast and crew.
And just a few weeks ago, she told Channel 4 about how women can sometimes feel limited by societal expectations.
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What a woman, eh?
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