Marion Cotillard: Feminism is creating 'separation' in Hollywood

Marion Cotillard doesn't identify as a feminist. In fact, the Academy Award winner believes the very word is harming the film industry.

Hollywood's female actors, directors and writers report consistent sexism, ageism, sexual harassment and exclusion from jobs and accolades.

But in an interview with Porter Magazine, Cotillard, who appears as Lady Macbeth in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth film adaptation, argued that the vocal push to include more women in Hollywood creates an unnecessary separation of genders.

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"Filmmaking is not about gender," she said. "You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men. For me, it doesn't create equality; it creates separation. I mean I don't qualify myself as a feminist." Read more...

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