Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton are both backing the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to do away with gendered acting awards and give only a Best Actor honour. “I have always referred to myself as an actor,” Blanchett says in Venice where she is the Venice Film Festival jury president this year. “I am of the generation where the word ‘actress’ was used almost always in a pejorative sense.
So I claim the other space.” “I think a good performance is a good performance no matter the sexual orientation of who is making them,” Blanchett adds.
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