Zoe Saldaña Calls For “More Female CEOs,” But “Make Room” For Other Women Execs At The Table – Cannes
deadline.com“We need more female CEOs.” Such was the declaration today by Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Zoe Saldana at the Cannes Film Festival Kering Suite.
Saldana is winning high praise for her turn as Rita in Jacques Audiard’s Emila Perez. The actress plays an underpaid and underappreciated criminal attorney in Mexico who gets a rich opportunity in repping a cartel lord.
However, the kingpin demands to transition to a woman, Emila Perez. But that new identity, life gets complicated. “I think as women, we’re going got keep creating stories about us for us and forever, but we need more women sitting on boards, because they’re the gatekeepers.” But Saldana had more advice: “Once those women are there, don’t feel happy that you’re the only woman at the table…make room.” Specifically, minus three guys for more women.
And Saldana wasn’t being anti-guy, rather “bring a chair in, and bring another woman with you.” “Art survives because we need middle industries to propel us from point A to point B,” Saldana said, “You need a believer who is a shaker and maker.
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