Cate Blanchett, the chairman of the jury of the Venice International Film Festival, prefers to consider himself an actor rather than an actress. As noted by CNN, such a comment came from her lips at a press conference, when journalists asked her opinion on the decision of the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival to present "gender neutral awards." "Do not consider this a political statement, but I always called myself an actor. I don't think we have the right gender definitions, and I belong to a generation for which the word "actress" has always been used in a derogatory sense. So I think I have the right to lay claim to a different reality. " she replied. As an argument, Blanchett asked Italian journalists to find the equivalent of " The Topic of Article: Cate Blanchett urged to consider her an actor instead of an actress. |