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		</div><p>Regina King has praised the #MeToo movement for helping women “find their voice”.</p>
<p>King won the best supporting actress Academy Award for her role in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, a film which features the struggles of a pregnant African American woman when her partner is falsely accused of rape.</p>
<p>Discussing sexual assault, King said all women have either “experienced a violation” first-hand or “lifted a sister up through that”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126655" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126655" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/5DED36F2-970C-46B3-B741-9036869157ED.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126655" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/5DED36F2-970C-46B3-B741-9036869157ED.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="403" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126655" class="wp-caption-text">Regina King praised the #MeToo movement following her Oscar win for If Beale Street Could Talk</figcaption></figure>
<p>King said women “hold each other up through a secret that shouldn’t be a secret” before praising the impact of #MeToo.</p>
<p>The movement rose to prominence in the wake of accusations of a culture of widespread sexual assault in Hollywood.</p>
<p>However King said #MeToo has advanced beyond sexual assault and has allowed women to “find their voice”.</p>
<p>Speaking backstage following her win, she said it is: “Creating opportunities for women to find their voice even beyond just being violated sexually, but being marginalised, being violated.</p>
<p>“When you have put in the work to be at the table and being denied a seat at the table, this movement has allowed us and has inspired us to say ‘no, I am supposed to have a seat at that table’. So that energy was going on throughout the production of this film.</p>
<p>“Barry supported that and lifted it up as well. And that’s the thing – when you have men and women working together, pretty amazing things happen.”</p>
<p>King won in a category also containing Amy Adams for Vice, Marina de Tavira for Roma and The Favourite pair Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.</p>
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