Cameron Diaz laughed off misogyny in the film industry
nme.comRule Breakers podcast, Diaz explained that she took on roles in franchises including Shrek and Charlie’s Angels because they subverted “typical” narratives about women, although she admitted that in reality she didn’t do enough to speak up for herself and her female contemporaries.“I certainly didn’t do as much as could be done now, because of the awareness of everybody, #MeToo,” she said.“There were still parameters.
The 1990s, the early 00s – there was still heavy, heavy misogyny. The level of exploitation… it just laid on the entire industry.”Visage then said how the industry was so rife with sexism that she would usually laugh off it off.
Diaz agreed: “It was the normal thing to do to [laugh] and just be able to get through unscathed.“Be the one who participated enough to make everybody feel taken care of but not to be a victim in that position.
To know how to navigate the whole thing because it was happening all day, every day in every little feeling of layers of existence.
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