During last month's BFI London Film Festival, Suffragette screenwriter Abi Morgan revealed that male actors were turning down roles in the film because they weren't happy with the size of the parts.
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Pretty outrageous, right? Cate Blanchett happens to think so, with the Carol star delivering a scathing verdict on the stars who weren't interested in taking second billing.
"I think there's a sense that for a man to support a woman, he's somehow being emasculated - which is ridiculous!" Blanchett told Digital Spy.
"I think women far more feel like they want to be part of something, and I think the way men get talked to by their representatives means that they miss out on a lot of great experiences.
"Who would not want to work with Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep? You'd have to be a moron."
Watch the video above to see Blanchett also discuss her namedrop in 22 Jump Street, turning down Tina Fey and why she wants to work with John Woo.
Blanchett's latest film Carol, a Todd Haynes drama about a married woman who embarks on an affair with a department-store clerk, opens in UK cinemas on November 27.
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