Regina King pledges to make all of her future producing projects 50 percent women

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published 7 January 2019

Regina King made a huge promise on Sunday night while accepting her Golden Globe award.

The If Beale Street Could Talk star received the statue for best supporting actress in a motion picture, and after thanking her family and friends, she shared that celebrities are fully aware that "our microphones are big and we are speaking for everyone. And I just want to say that I'm going to use my platform right now to say in the next two years, everything that I produce, I'm making a vow — it's going to be tough — to make sure that everything I produce is 50 percent women."

She didn't stop there, urging others to join her. "I just challenge anyone out there — anyone out there who is in a position of power, not just in our industry, in all industries — I challenge you to challenge yourselves and stand with us in solidarity and do the same," King said. The wind-up-your-speech music started to play while King was making her plea, but the wise conductor stopped and she was able to finish speaking without being drowned out. Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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