Overview
- Blanchett, speaking Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, said the #MeToo movement was cut short and warned that shutting the discussion stops solutions.
- She said the reckoning exposed a systemic layer of abuse across industries and argued that silencing it keeps the problem hidden.
- Describing current sets, she cited daily headcounts of about 10 women to 75 men and said homogenous crews dull the work and narrow viewpoints.
- She noted festival leaders pledged to improve representation and framed those commitments as a start rather than a fix given what she still sees on sets.
- She backed working with artists who have genuinely atoned and raised AI concerns by calling for consent-first rules, with one outlet reporting she said she co-founded RSL Media to build permission systems.