Sigourney Weaver believes that women will change cinema

American actress Sigourney Weaverwhich he will pick up in Valladolid tomorrow International Goya Awardbelieves that these are the changes that cinematography should achieve equality between men and women will come from the hands of the women themselves, who are the ones who “will manage to do it”.

“I think I’ll see. And (in this change) we will have to give recognition to the women themselves, who are the ones who make it possible. to changeand if not, look at the history’Barbie‘, a different love story from an angle sex“, he said at the press conference.

Elegantly dressed in a salt-green suit jacket, with a striking lapel brooch and a white shirt, she opted for some shoes completely straight, despite the fact that he stood out in the photo shoot between the presidents of the Academy, Fernando Mendez Leiteand the mayor of the city, Jesús Julio Carner, with his height of 183 centimeters.

Weaver was friendly and relaxed and repeated on several occasions that she liked Spain very much. He only slightly changed his gesture when answering the questions of Fr sexual abuse.

He regretted that he learned from the journalist that it was a case of abuse by the director Spanish cinematography. “My heart and my solidarity are with these women, with those who dare to speak about these situations; reporting abuse helps all women feel safer.”

“We knew that #Me too I didn’t want to change things overnight (…) and this is a problem that occurs in all areas. But in these cases there is more and more light, a difference has been made.”

The actress did not shy away from any question, including her terrible opinion about policy from “the extreme right, and the right“, he specified. And she highlighted “women’s empowerment and the importance of not taking things for granted: how women feel or their power to say no.”

Persistence as a flag

She herself is a good example of that. persistencewhich marked his career because, in his youth, none of his film teachers believed in his talent. “But I didn’t give up,” he said.

“I’m very happy to be here, I didn’t give up despite that initial lack of motivation,” said Weaver, who never cared if the characters she was offered were big or small because the important thing for her is the good of history.

“I’m not snobI’m not an intellectual, I like to try everything, Science Fiction, comedy…” he said before pointing out that, for example, he will leave Spain early on Sunday morning because he continues filming “Avatar 3” on Monday.

In the few hours that he will be on Spanish soil, he will take over the International Goya for the 38th edition of these awards, recognition for which she feels “deeply honored” because she has a “great worship for the history of Spanish and Mexican cinema.”

The protagonist of ‘Alien’ expressed her opinion on several occasions during the press conference tendency for the cinematography of Spain and Mexico, for his own diversity and, above all, because it is not dominated, like Hollywood, by “sagas or money”.

That, he pointed out, unconventional and very personal cinemaa type of cinema “completely new and different for United States audiences”, with films that had a huge impact in their country.

That is why he is looking forward to tomorrow’s gala dinner, where he hopes to meet again with Penelope Cruzmeet the directors movies nominated this year, among which he mentioned ‘Creatura’, ‘20,000 species of bees’ or ‘Un amor’, and a conversation with Almodóvar and “Jota” Bayon, with whom he worked on ‘A monster goes to see me’ (2016) .

Almodóvar highlighted his film with women, all types of women, characters “complex and fascinating“, something is very important to her because she believes that “the audience has never been given enough credit”.

“Women want to see women on screens, for a long time there were only young men because women were not interesting” Hollywoodbut now there is “female characters with multiple facets and an appetite to see characters of all kinds.”

He also assured that he would like to work with a director from La Mancha, especially now that he is already filming in English. “My Spanish isn’t good enough,” he said with a smile, before adding that he would come up to him at the gala tomorrow night and ask, “What about mine?”