What women want is just for it to stop –Jodie Foster

PARA kay Jodie Foster, “unhealthy” ang male-dominated na set ng mga pelikulang ginagawa kaya hinihikayat niya ang gender balance sa lahat ng lugar ng trabaho.

Nagsimula ang career ng Academy Award-winning actress at director noong 1970s na iilang kababaihan lamang ang nagtatrabaho sa likod ng mga kamera, at namamasdan niya ang malaking pagkakaiba ngayon na mas marami na ang babae sa set.

“Maybe because I started making movies when there were no women, I saw how healthy it was when women came into the picture,” sabi niya sa USA Today. “When I’d go out on movie sets (before), it was like 175 guys in a small town. The second that they started normalising and bringing women into the picture, which also brought children into the picture, then all of a sudden it wasn’t so unhealthy and people were happier. It didn’t feel like they were in some boot camp somewhere.”

Gayunman, hindi nakatitiyak ang The Silence of the Lambs star kung paano makatutulong ang pagkakaroon ng mas maraming babaeng empleyado sa set para labanan ang mga isyu gaya ng sexual harassment.

Nagkomento pagdagsa ng sexual misconduct scandals sa Hollywood simula nang ibunyag ang diumano’y pagiging serial predator ng dating producer ng Miramax na si Harvey Weinstein sa artikulo ng New York Times nitong nakaraang Oktubre, namamasdan ni Jodie na: “There’s more women in executive positions (now) than you can imagine, so I don’t really think that changed anything (with harassment and misconduct issues). It didn’t even change women directors. There’s still just as few women directors as when there (were) four studio heads that were women. That didn’t change anything, so I’m not sure ( it will help).” Bagamat naniniwala ang 55-anyos na ang #MeToo sexual assault survivors’ movement ay magbubunga ng “some kind of truth and reconciliation” pagdating sa inappropriate behaviour sa industriya, hindi pa rin malinaw sa bituin kung paano nito mababago ang lugar ng trabaho sa hinaharap. “I’m looking forward to a new millennial woman that knows that she can say no,” sabi ni Jodie. “But honestly, I think what most women want is just for it to stop. They don’t really want to have a lawsuit, they don’t want to have to go on CBS This Morning (news show) 400 times. They’d actually just like it to stop and that’ll be the good part.”