Cate Blanchett: 'We like looking sexy but it doesn't mean we want to f**k you'
The actor delivered a powerful message at the InStyle awards
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Your support makes all the difference.Taking to the stage at the InStyle Awards, Cate Blanchett used the platform to deliver a powerful message about sexual harassment.
“We all like looking sexy but it doesn’t mean we want to f**k you,” she told the audience. “No one says to Steve Bannon, ‘You look like a bag of trash. Do you want me to throw you out?’
“But the comments that get said about what women wear on the red carpet, I mean, if you troll through those trolls on the internet — just don’t.”
Wearing a red and black striped dress, the Thor: Ragnarok actor spoke about the style icons who have inspired her.
“For me, it’s always those women who have been utterly themselves without apology, whose physical presence and their aesthetic is really integrated in a non-self-conscious way into part of who they are,” she told the audience.
“Women who know how they look is not all of who they are, but just an extension of that. It’s about women who feel free to wear what they want, when they want and how they want to wear it.”
The comments come two weeks after allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein were made public.
Blanchett had previously condemned Weinstein in a statement, reading: “Any man in a position of power or authority who thinks it’s his prerogative to threaten, intimidate or sexually assault any woman he encounters or works alongside needs to be called to account.
”It is never easy for a woman to come forward in such situations and I wholeheartedly support those who have."
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