Designed to highlight women’s achievements in film and encourage more diversity within the industry, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis attended the second annual Women in Motion program which features talks with high-profile talent and executives.
The former Thelma & Louise stars were among a group of impressive women at the Cannes Film Festival event including Jodie Foster who talked rape scenes and female empowerment before attending her Money Monster premiere.
Said Foster: “One of my biggest pet peeves as an actor was always that whenever a writer, a male writer, was searching for motivation for a woman, they would just always go to rape,” Foster said. “It was like, I wonder why she’s a box of tears? Oh, she was raped. I wonder why she’s having trouble with her boss? Well, its because she was raped.”