While these movements focused primarily on racial equity and sexual harassment, they acted as a solvent on the industry’s rigid power structures. They forced a reckoning with unconscious bias. It became intellectually untenable to champion diversity only for race while ignoring the systemic ageism facing half the population. #MeToo gave powerful women like Reese Witherspoon (who famously fought for Big Little Lies ) and Meryl Streep the platform to call out age discrimination directly.
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: The gap is most severe in lead positions. Reports have noted years where 0% of leading roles in top-grossing films were filled by women over 50. While these movements focused primarily on racial equity