According to Variety, actress Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join Carey Mulligan in Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette.
The film is based on true events and "revolves
around the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement: women who were forced
underground in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal
State."
Suffragette comes from the National Union of Women's
Suffrage founded by Millicent Fawcett. The peaceful movement argued that if parliament
created laws and if women were to obey those laws, then women should be allowed
to be part of the process of making said laws. Fawcett said that women were
already part of society, they held important jobs like men, they paid taxes
like men, then why wouldn’t they have the right to vote.
But despite these logical and rightful arguments Fawcett’s
progress was very slow, so in 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union was
founded. This new movement, who was better known as the Suffragettes wasn’t
afraid to use violence or to be on the other end of it to make their voices
heard.
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