37 Celebs Who Really Tried To *Say Something* Politically, Only To Be Called Out For Missing The Point Entirely

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In a response, Portman agreed it was not "brave" of her to deterioration the dress, arsenic was reported. She said, "I anticipation that what was intended arsenic a elemental motion to [female directors] does not distract from their large achievements. It is existent I’ve lone made a fewer films with women. In my agelong career, I’ve lone gotten the accidental to enactment with pistillate directors a fewer times — I’ve made shorts, commercials, euphony videos, and features with Marya Cohen, Mira Nair, Rebecca Zlotowski, Anna Rose Holmer, Sofia Coppola, Shirin Neshat, and myself. Unfortunately, the unmade films I person tried to marque are a shade history.” She continued, "I person had the acquisition a fewer times of helping get pistillate directors hired connected projects which they were past forced retired of due to the fact that of the conditions they faced astatine work. ... So I privation to say, I person tried, and I volition support trying. While I person not yet been successful, I americium hopeful that we are stepping into a caller day.”