Sally Hawkins, who recently earned a Golden Globe for her performance in Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky, has signed on to star in We Want Sex, a fact-based film being directed by Simon Curtis from a screenplay by Billy Ivory. The project, which has been in development for three years, is about the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination in their job performance evaluations. Their actions gave a huge boost to the women's rights movement in the country and helped bring about equal pay for women in the workplace. During the protest, the strike committee was invited to tea by Barbara Castle, employment secretary in then-prime minister Harold Wilson's Labour government. It was during that meeting that the strikers raised the issue of equal pay for the first time. Imelda Staunton is in negotiations to play Castle.
- 2/5/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
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