Emma Thompson is a feminist through and through, and she has been since she was a teenager. Now at 56, she’s talking candidly about feminism and ageism in Hollywood.
It absolutely baffles her when women say they’re not feminists, or that they’re somehow scared of the word.
In an interview with Vulture, she called herself a “card-carrying, radical feminist,” saying she has been “since I was 19.”
"Most women who I would want to listen to wouldn't have any problem at all with the word feminist,” she continued. “It's bizarre. Any woman who says they're not a feminist is basically saying that they don't believe in equal rights for women."
When it comes to ageism in Hollywood, which Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and many other female actresses have spoken out about before, she said it’s been that way for decades.
“I remember somebody saying to me that I was too old for Hugh Grant, who’s like a year younger than me, in Sense and Sensibility,” she recalled. “I said, ‘Do you want to go take a flying leap?’”
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