The Magazine published an unpublished interview with the actress who was characterized by not mincing words.
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the death of Bette Davis, the Magazine has dusted off a lost interview of the legendary actress whose opinions made Hollywood uncomfortable as much as her enigmatic look was seductive.
In its Internet series "Blank on Blank", the American public channel recovered the conversation that Davis had with the journalist Shirley Eder in 1963, in which the diva of the big screen once again demonstrated that she did not mince words.
"I have always said what I have thought even though they tell you that in Hollywood one cannot do that," said the interpreter that she considered the hypocrisy in that industry "exhausting".
"I think you can be respected in Hollywood by telling the truth, like anywhere else, or I wouldn't have had a career," the actress said after she died of cancer on October 6, 1989, in France.
Davis collected 11 Oscar nominations for best actress and won two statuettes, for "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938).
She and she maintained litigation with the studios, as was the case with Warner Brothers, for whom she worked between 1932 and 1949, during which time she made 52 films.
She tried to break that contract, convinced that the company offered her roles that were not up to her standards and the case went to court, where she Davis saw how the judges turned their backs on her.
"Women are an essential part of cinema, but scriptwriters don't write about women. I think they are very perplexed about the situation of women," said the actress, who openly considered that intelligence was "a terrible obstacle" for women in business. and in private life.
"I think in business it's even worse because there is deep resentment from men. We all work for men, they are the ones in charge and I think they prefer women who don't have the ability can't think for themselves. One You can make more enemies for yourself as a woman with a brain, I think, among the opposite S-," she said with a laugh.
Davis saw the attitude of men in the 1960s as retrograde and she did not hesitate to affirm that men had to "change a lot" and understand that women had stopped being a mere companion in the background.
"I think millions of women are very happy to be themselves. They are so bored with this whole story of trying to be little when that reality isn't there anymore... The world is long over that," she explained.
Speaking to Eder, Davis did not hide her frustration with Hollywood's reluctance to take more risks because certain content was fashionable.
"There's always that old excuse here that now is not the time to make a movie like that," said the actress, who didn't think audiences knew what they wanted to see until it was put in front of them.
