Matt Damon had proven to be just one cautionary tale, they said. Some felt it would be a lose-lose either way. When every word men utter about Time’s Up and the #MeToo movement is pored over, parsed and often harshly criticized, silence is often the best option, but obviously not a fail-safe one, Hollywood insiders said, since that ended up drawing some criticism, too. Publicists and agents guiding male clients through this unusual awards season said it was highly likely that some of the men were terrified of making missteps on the world’s stage. Their answers shed light on the tricky territory that men find themselves in when they want to declare themselves allies in the fight against sexual harassment. It was a sentiment echoed by Graham Broadbent, a producer of “Three Billboards,” who wrote by email that it was “a night for listening and learning, and hopefully the beginning of much needed change and healing.”Īnd Guillermo del Toro, who collected best director for “The Shape of Water,” said by email that coming on the heels of the rousing speech by Oprah Winfrey - who urged men to listen too - he felt it was “important to acknowledge the woman power in my immediate circle of work/collaboration and how they made it possible to create the film.” McDonagh, the writer-director of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” said in an email, adding that it was important to show solidarity, too. “I do feel it’s time for men to shut up and listen,” Mr. “This was what this show was about,” Geena Davis, another Time’s Up organizer, said at a Globes after-party. She was one of hundreds of entertainment industry women who created Time’s Up, the initiative that aims to end sexual harassment across the country by, among other steps, establishing a legal fund and passing legislation. “It’s amazing, and I’m so proud,” Eva Longoria, who attended draped in black, said during a break in the ceremony.
Woman after woman took to the stage and made deeply personal vows to help bring gender balance to Hollywood and harassment to an end. Meryl Streep, Emma Watson, Amy Poehler and five other actresses held red-carpet interviews with the feminist activists who joined them as guests. But questions abounded about why men did not speak out onstage about the issue.Īttendees on and off the red carpet heeded the call to wear black in a show of support for sexual harassment victims.
LOS ANGELES - The powerful Hollywood women who set out to define an anti-sexual harassment agenda at the Golden Globes on Sunday, the first major awards ceremony of the #MeToo era, declared the evening a resounding success.
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