- Cate Blanchett accepted the style icon award at the 2017 InStyle Awards Monday Night.
- During her speech, she made a point about sexual harassment.
- She said the way a woman dresses isn't an invitation for unwelcome advances.
Cate Blanchett doesn't mince words.
The 48-year-old actress used her acceptance speech for her style icon award at the 2017 InStyle Awards Monday night to make a point about sexual harassment.
"We all like looking sexy, but it doesn’t mean we want to f--- you," she said. "No one says to [former White House chief strategist] Steve Bannon, 'You look like a bag of trash. Do you want me to throw you out?' But the comments that get said about what women wear on the red carpet? If you troll through those trolls on the Internet, just don't."
Her comments follow the continuous stream of allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein, as well as recent allegations against director James Toback.
The actress who currently stars in "Thor: Ragnarok," which hits theaters November 3, expressed her thoughts on women's freedom to dress in any way they choose.
"For me, the true icons of style, and I think there’s a bit of a theme emerging here tonight, it's that for me it's always those women who've been utterly themselves without apology," she said. "Women who know how they look, it's not all of who they are but just an extension of that, and it's about women who feel free to wear what they want when they want and how they want to wear it."
Watch part of her speech below:
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