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Hollywood star Jessica Chastain talks strikes, jury duty at Marrakech International Film Festival
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2/17/2025
The 20th edition of the Marrakech Film Festival was relatively subdued, but Oscar winning Jessica Chastain was on a roll
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Good evening, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News. I'm the entertainment editor.
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I'm on the red carpet of the Marrakesh, the 20th Marrakesh International Film Festival
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and we are expecting a galaxy of Hollywood stars such as Jessica Chastain,
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there's Alexander Skarsgård who are all part of the jury that's going to select the best film.
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Interestingly, Marrakesh is one of the few festivals where it gives the award,
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the Best Movie Award, to the first and the second film directors who make the second or the first film.
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So it's quite interesting and different that way.
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And it's also one of the few festivals which is accessible to the public,
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all the master classes are open to the public and it's got a bit of glitz and glamour as well.
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This year it's been slightly muted and I tell you why because there was an earthquake in September
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and the city is just sprinting back to normalcy and it's done very well
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and also because of the geopolitics that's around us.
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So therefore it's been very muted but we're expecting a lot of red carpet action as well.
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Very soon you're going to see Jessica Chastain speak about the Hollywood strikes,
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speak about her role as the president of the jury this year and lots more. Stay tuned.
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I'm glad that our leadership, the SAG leadership, has gotten to a deal that they think is fair and
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historic in its own right. We still are waiting to find out what the voters are going to choose,
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if they're going to ratify the contract. I've looked through it. I do think personally it
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is a good deal but of course I only have one vote and it's important to me what everyone
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else thinks as well and that's the beautiful thing about taking a vote is that everyone gets to have
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a say. I didn't choose to be so public about it. I think it just so happened because my film had an
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interim agreement because so many actors were nervous I think to speak out. I just ended up
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being one of the first and I think when you end up being one of the first in that case you really
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have a big spotlight on yourself. I did my homework. I spoke to the leadership at SAG
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and I asked them how can I best support this acting community because SAG is the most important
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community I've ever been a part of and I would never want to do anything against them
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and I only wanted to support them. So it was kind of like I became public by default.
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Like you wanted to have more women than men in your jury?
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Melita!
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Is it true and why were you saying that?
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Here's the thing. At one point we were talking about the jury and she said well,
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I didn't say it has to be more women than men but at one point she says well but then it'll be
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six and three and then I said well what's wrong with that and many times there's been six men and
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three women so what's the big I mean sometimes too there's been all men so what's the big deal
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of having six and three? I think it's kind of an incredible thing to do and it's I mean it
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really is historic that this is the jury that we have this year. I like to be part of anything that
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pushes the boundaries of what we thought was supposed to be or what the norm was. I like
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to kind of live in the future and I do see the future as a more equal community in terms of
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racial equality and gender equality and so forth so I'm very very happy. It wasn't a demand on my
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part but I was very happy to be the president of a jury that has six women in it.
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