There’s nobody who has had a career quite like Meryl Streep, and as the esteemed actress sat down for a Q&A on Wednesday at the 77th Cannes Film Festival after receiving an honorary Palme d’Or, she got candid about a frustrating trend she’s seen play out through her entire career: male studio executives failing to understand movies with female protagonists.
Taking a broader look at the state of the industry, as France currently goes through its own #MeToo reckoning, Streep considered how significantly the film industry changed once women gained greenlight authority at the studios.
“Before there were women in greenlight positions at studios, it was very hard for men to see themselves in a female protagonist.
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