This Changes Everything connects the many gender-inequality dots corroding Hollywood-including problematic hiring practices, wage gaps, the representation of women on-screen, and the treatment of women offscreen. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that the man who got elected, his naked misogyny was out in the public and it didn’t seem to matter. That was the reason for #MeToo and then Time’s Up came out of that. They attacked the men around them that they could attack and they could bring down, because they couldn’t bring down the person who was elected to the highest office in the land.
Indians and colonized people feel powerless to the people in power, so they attack the people around them.” Referring to the #MeToo movement, he said, “That is what happened with women in Hollywood. There’s something called horizontal action, which is a term used in colonized societies like India. Speaking about Trump, Donahue said, “His election was really what did it. Then, with the help of actress Amber Tamblyn, the documentary pinpointed the moment when women in Hollywood stopped taking abuse. Director Kimberly Peirce recalled how, after directing Hilary Swank to an Oscar-winning performance in Boys Don’t Cry, her career stalled-and, when she was finally able to book jobs, her judgment was continually questioned by male crewmembers. Chloë Grace Moretz remembered how, as a teenage actress, she was told to wear a push-up bra and falsies at the insistence of male producers. Sharon Stone recalled a director who repeatedly asked her to sit on his lap. Henson, and more women in Hollywood spoke about the gender-related adversities and humiliations they’ve faced in the industry. In the first 80 minutes of the film, Meryl Streep, Sandra Oh, Jessica Chastain, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, Taraji P.
On Saturday afternoon at the Toronto Film Festival, the premiere of Tom Donahue’s documentary This Changes Everything-about the systemic abuse of women in Hollywood-ended with a wallop.
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