12/6/2023 0 Comments Steven r mcqueen 2018I’m here hopefully for a little while and will do my work. And sometimes the world won’t agree with you and that’s fine. As an artist you have your path and that’s fine. Does that speak to you of a certain blindness? The Hollywood Foreign Press Association – wh ich runs the Golden Globes – completely ignored Widows in its nominations. Because the people with positions of influence do that. How anyone would think we could have that without everything on the table seems impossible – but we do so gladly. You have to take on all possibilities and then come to a conclusion, and that’s the only way we can have a logical debate. I went to CNN the other day, I looked around the desk: where were all the black people? If a scientist were trying to carry out a fair and logical experiment, they wouldn’t just use a part of the population. And that’s why we need good journalism rather than journalism that’s only for certain people. Truth will always prevail – if I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t be on the phone to you now. It’s about putting these debates into the mainstream and then being absolutely open and honest. Look, if I were brought up differently I would think differently. Is a lot of the conversation about progress hot air? I mean, how often, as a woman, did you project yourself on to heroes such as John Wayne or Sean Connery? That men struggle to even think about doing that is incredible. It’s one of those things that’s kind of obvious to me, maybe not to others.Ī friend of my wife said to her husband: “Let’s go see Widows.” And he said: ‘Oh, is it only women who are starring in it?” And she said: “It’s got Liam Neeson.” And he said: “Oh, OK, I’ll go then.” So we’re still fighting against nonsense. It depends if you’re sensitive enough to understand what other people go through, if you’re a male white critic. So long as you put one foot in front of the other, you’re good. Yes, of course! Wolves come in sheep’s clothing. Have you personally experienced more racism since Brexit?Įvery day, mate. The guy behind the till said: “It’s four digits in this country.” My daughter was with her at the time and said: “Granny, why didn’t you say anything?” She replied: “When they go low, we go high.” But the day before Brexit you wouldn’t have even thought about saying that. She had a new credit card with her and was struggling to remember the pin. The day after Brexit, my mother went to her favourite high-street shop. Nationalism absolutely has a part to play. I don’t know what has happened but we have taken two steps backwards. Do you think it’s harder for people to overcome stereotypes – as the women in the series and your film do – in Brexit Britain than in Thatcher’s Britain? You first watched Lynda La Plante’s ITV series Widows as a 13-year-old in 1983.
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