Carey Mulligan proud of red carpet protesters

The organisation says it is using “suffragette methods to declare that, as long as violence against women continues, the battle for women’s liberation has not yet been won”.

The film, which also had a female director and producers and a production crew that was nearly all women, is the first ever mainstream film about the British campaign for equal votes a century ago.

“We aren’t going to move, we’re the modern suffragettes and domestic violence cuts are demonstrating that little has changed for us 97 years later”, one protestor told The Independent.

In the BBC interview, Streep-who’s been nominated 19 times for Academy Awards and won three-throws her hands up, saying “of course!” when asked if she’s a feminist. Meryl counted all the writers with reviews on Rotten Tomatoes – “I went deep, deep, deep, deep”, she says – and found the numbers alarming.

Security guards attempted to forcibly remove the women from the event (which feels even more outrageous when you consider the film’s subject matter), and the official Suffragette movie Twitter account has casually left out any mention of the protest.

Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan will open the 2015 BFI London Film Festival, with the European premiere of their new film Suffragette. She also shared her observation that young women nowadays probably felt “alienated” from people in their lives through feminism. Emulating the same spirit as these depicted on the large screen, members of group Sisters Uncut disrupted the glitzy bash party in Leicester Sq. on Tues. night as they protested for gender equality.

For a recent photo shoot, Time Out London invited stars of the movie to wear T-shirts that read, “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave.” “We are an unbalanced society – women and men – and films like this inspire conversations about how we can correct that imbalance”.

Another protester, who did not give her full name, added: “The struggle for women’s liberation isn’t over”. That is exactly what the suffragettes were about.

Another person witnessing the chaos was quoted by The Mirror saying the women who jumped the barrier chanted, “David Cameron take note, dead women can’t vote”.