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Cameron Diaz says she usually handled “layers and layers of inappropriateness” from colleagues within the leisure business earlier than she stepped away from appearing in 2014.
The “Back in Action” star, 52, opened up concerning the lack of “safety” and “security” she felt earlier in her profession throughout an interview with Netflix’s “Skip Intro” podcast revealed Jan. 17.
“The level of security and safety you feel as a woman now on set is — I had never felt that before this film,” Diaz advised host Krista Smith.
“The industry is so different. I mean, I definitely have to say that the #MeToo movement changed everything. It’s palpable.”
The “Charlie’s Angels” actress added, “You walk onto the set and it is different.”
“It wasn’t just the higher-ups, you know what I mean? There was always just, like, that one guy, you know, on set that you were always going, ‘Oh God, here he comes again.’”
Diaz continued, “There was always layers and layers of inappropriateness” that girls needed to chuckle off and endure.
“Some people you have to be forceful with and put up the boundaries. Others, you can’t give them the time of day,” she recalled. “But it has changed. It’s not the same.”
Evaluating her expertise engaged on Netflix’s “Back in Action,” Diaz’s first film since 2014’s “Annie,” to different initiatives she’s been in, the actress stated the distinction was evening and day.
“I’ve never in my entire career had HR come in prior to a movie and talk about what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior and a hotline, which Netflix has, to call anonymously to report any issues that you might be feeling,” Diaz shared. “I was like, ‘Wow, that is amazing.’”
“#MeToo happened several years after I stopped making movies,” added Diaz, who started her profession as a mannequin earlier than touchdown her massive break reverse Jim Carrey within the 1994 film “The Mask.”
As Diaz put it, her era of girls developing in Hollywood had been “so conditioned to walking the tightrope.”
“And tightropes are dangerous,” she defined. “However once you get good at strolling the tightrope and you may, like, handle all of it, there may be some form of empowerment that you just really feel. But it surely’s a false sense of empowerment, as a result of what you’re actually doing is simply staving off the inevitable, which is at any second one thing may crush you that’s greater than you.
“That’s not safe. That’s not safety. That’s just you doing your best and pushing what we have as women, which is power in ourselves, to not be crushed as much as you can.”
She went on, “But here we are: We’re on a more level playing field than we’ve ever been on, and it feels different. And that’s a really important thing. That’s truly a powerful thing.”
“Back in Action” starring Diaz and Jamie Foxx is on the market to stream now on Netflix.
