Cate Blanchett Opens Up About Mrs. America and How Feminism Has Changed
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“In the end, no matter whether the character only exists in a script form or they’re a real person, I think you have to look at what they do,” the Oscar winner says. “She did a lot of contradictory things. She said a lot of contradictory things. So you allow those contradictions to exist, smash them together and thrust it out to an audience.”“My function was not to judge her,” the actress adds.
“We tend to think of progress as linear and moving forward,” Sher says. “That is the cycle of how things change — is that we take a step forward and we take a step back, and it moves in cycles. If we understand the cycles, I think we can maybe anticipate them better.” Creator Dahvi Waller says while researching the 1970s to conceive the dialogue for the series, she was surprised at how similar conversations were back then to today.from today or am I reading a newspaper from the ’70s?” Waller says. “The conversations, they haven’t changed much in 50 years and I don’t know whether to be distressed — how distressed to be by them.”Blanchett, an avid feminist, says that she was oftentimes criticized for her left-leaning views while growing up.
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