“With every days revelation, I thought here is an opportunity for a powerful growth.
How do we use this moment to elevate what is happening instead of continually victimize ourselves?”
“Wearing black in solidarity is one step.

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What Times Up is doing with a legal defense fund is a major step.
“Finding the confidence in my work to bring this woman to life was challenging and terrifying.
She just burned the barn down and walked out.”

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“I had to find a way to make her human.
She was a woman who had suffered and it made her angry and resentful and a monster.”
I just make a run at stand in my truth all the time.

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If I come from a place of truth all the time, then thats all I can do.
I cant worry about trying to be Jackie Robinson or anybody else.
Pasek said the victory brought their year of success full-circle.

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“The first person we saw after we won was Emma Stone who was coming to present her award.
He also added that this award motivates them to keep forging ahead.
“There was a collective feeling that it wouldnt be business as usual.

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Because I think we have to be forever changed in this moment,” Witherspoon said.
When women are the architects of the story, the stories change and you see things differently.”
Backstage, he elaborated on howThe Shape of Water’sunique beauty-meets-beast love story fits into that ethos.

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“You approach each character with a different concern.
“I love writing these characters and each then tells you what they need.

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