Toronto: 'I Am Woman' star Tilda Cobham-Hervey talks TimesUp movement
"I feel like that Pandora's box has been opened now and we can't back away," the lead star of the Helen Reddy biopic said during a Toronto fest presser. — the Helen Reddy biopic that recalls the 1971 megahit anthem for the women’s liberation movement — lost little time Friday before the film's cast and creative addressed the Time's Up movement.
"I feel like that Pandora's box has been opened now and we can't back away," Tilda Cobham-Hervey, who plays the Australian singing legend in director Unjoo Moon's movie, told the Toronto media about Time's Up. "I find it a really exciting time to be a woman in this industry. Doors have opened and there's all these amazing women around me. It makes me feel excited," she added.bowed Thursday night in Toronto as part of the Special Presentations sidebar.
"Instead, here we are, and it's relevant for a different reason," Beebe said in reference to U.S. President Donald Trump now sitting in the White House.as a song that allowed the Australian singer to find 1970s music industry success and speak directly to women also embracing a fledgling feminist movement. "She wrote lyrics to a song that really reflected who she was at that time of her life, and what she was as a woman," Moon said.
"It feels like we're still having these conversations, that Helen would have to say this is not the music women want to listen to and it's time that men listen to what we want to listen to. That resonated -- the fights that we're still having and more broadly, seeing where we've moved and where we still have to go," Jensen said.
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