To communicate online. So im happy to be in my neighbourhood. Im still now hyper conscious of how great it is to be here. So, gloria, were sitting here, its 2023, almost 50 years after you founded the womens action alliance, which was a group that helped women fight sexism in the us. How do you feel about where the Feminist Movement is today . I feel proud of the amount of invention and rebellion and humourand. She chuckles. Community among us. At the same time, im living in a country where a female human being has never been president , when that could and should have happened long ago. So i feel proud of the movement but aware of how much it takes for a Movement Really to succeed, whether its the civil Rights Movement, the gay and lesbian and transgender movement, the womens movement, i mean, and all these movements are connected. When you want to measure progress, when it comes to womens rights, what are the key markers that you look for to say, ok, weve moved forward, not backward
If there was a young, attractive young man played the guy who shot himself at the end, i was always the old guy with gout. They used to call me captain velcro in drama school because i played all the small parts. So, i realised very early on that nobody would want me to be me because, in reality, i dont think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. Oh, my goodness. Youve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the Acting Profession. Is that something that youve found. Youve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to accept . No, ifound it very liberating to become somebody else, to become kind of. To. Not to lose myself, but to explore other personalities and other characters. But what youve also said is that you were, from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more the. And the phrase would be the character actor. Yes. And i was very comfortabl