Australian actor Cate Blanchett, goodwill ambassador for the UN company for refugees, on Monday urged the movie trade to take a leap and embody their “incredible” tales.
“People who are displaced have a voice, they have a story,” mentioned the Oscar-winning actor at a chat on the Cannes Film Festival.
“Their stories are so incredible and inspiring.”
Blanchett, who has met refugees as a UNHCR envoy since 2016, mentioned 114 million individuals had been displaced around the globe by violence and battle.
“I’m always bewildered as to why more films don’t speak directly or obliquely to this,” she mentioned.
“The more we exclude these voices from our narratives, the more we’re othering them.”
“So I would love to say to people, when they are thinking about directors they might work with or stories that they might be interested in… just make a list of people who don’t look like you, who haven’t had experiences like you, and see what stories you might like to tell,” she mentioned.
“I think what happened with the old studio system is they started to tell the same stories made by the same people, the same crews, and it died.”
Blanchett, who can be a producer, mentioned there was nonetheless work forward.
“You can see it in meetings with streamers when you go to pitch a story and they go ‘Oh we loved it, we connected, we were so moved, but it’s not part of our mandate,'” she mentioned.
“And you go ‘Are you a dickhead? You’ve got no other story like this on your slate. Don’t you want a dynamic slate?'”
Blanchett is in Cannes for the premiere out of competitors of “Rumours”, through which the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get misplaced within the woods attempting to draft a press release.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
