Red carpet turns black for # TimesUp
Los Angeles: Hollywood spoke with one voice at the Golden Globes on Sunday to declare war on the film industry’s culture of sexual harassment and abuse, as it kicked off its annual awards season on a rare serious note.
Crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri was the big winner of the night with four trophies, giving it momentum ahead of the allimportant Oscars in March. But the awards podium played second fiddle at times to the clarion call coming from numerous stars about the need to heal and move forward. “Speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have,” actress and media powerhouse Oprah Winfrey told the audience at the Beverly Hilton as she accepted a lifetime achievement award.
The industry’s elite turned the red carpet black for the Globes, eschewing bright colors in a fashionable repudiation of disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein and others ensnared in allegations of misconduct.
And fittingly, it was a big night for movies and TV shows telling women’s stories, such as Three Billboards and coming- of- age tale Lady Bird on the film side, and TV juggernauts The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies.
The overall message at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s champagnedrenched annual prize- giving was a call for continued change. “People are aware now of a power imbalance. It’s led to abuse in our industry... It’s everywhere,” Meryl Streep, who was nominated for her work in media drama The Post, said on the red carpet. Leading the pack by the end of the night was Three Billboards, Martin McDonagh’s searing film about a mother who battles local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder. It picked up trophies for best drama, screenplay, actress for
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McDormand. Los Angeles: Hollywood A- listers arrived on the red carpet dressed in black to support the Time’s Up initiative and # MeToo movement.
Almost all the female actors including big names like Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum, Catherine Zeta Jones, Margot Robbie, Alison Brie, Jessica Biel, Claire Foy, among others turned the Globes dark on the fashion front.
The ‘ Time’s Up’ initiative was launched by powerful Hollywood women such as Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington and others to fight sexual harassment in the industry following allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and numerous others in the show business.
Male peers pinned up lapels donning Time’s Up on their tuxedos.
Justin Timberlake, Hugh Jackman, and Strangers Things stars Gaten Matazarro, Finn Wolfhard, Daniel Kaluuya, Bradley Whitford, Ewan MacGregor, Jude Law, James Franco, William H Macy and host Seth Meyers were leading men taking part in it he movement by adding black- and- white pins their looks.
Streep, who is part of the initiative, and Michelle Williams arrived with gender and racial justice activists as their guests.
While Streep walked the red carpet hand- in- hand with justice activist Ai- jen Po, Williams arrived in an embellished off- the- shoulder look with ‘ Me Too’ founder Tarana Burke at her side.
“People the to are aware now of a power imbalance and it’s something that leads to abuse’. It led to abuse in our own industry and led to abuse in domestic work... In the military, in Congress... And we want to fix that. We feel emboldened to stand together in a thick black line,” Ms Streep said on the red carpet. Before the carpet, women from the film industry encouraged their peers to join the movement, via Instagram and Twitter announcements.