Earlier this week, I covered Kim Basinger’s recent Daily Beast interview, which she did to promote her new film, The 11th Hour. It’s a film about a woman (played by Basinger) who goes through a massive, terrible ordeal to try to buy a baby/become a mother. As Basinger does more interviews to promote the film, she’s asked a lot about motherhood, children, feminism and what women should do to claim their power. Her answers have been interesting. When speaking to the Daily Beast, she said: “If only women knew how powerful they were, they’d just say ‘no, no more babies,’ and then we’d run the world.” It was an interesting idea and I gave my (unpopular) take on it. Anyway, Basinger has a new interview with Elle and she’s really doubling-down on this whole idea of “women would rule the world if we gave up babies AND sex.” Hmmm.

Why her character wants a child: “I think that it was something deep, deep inside that had always been there. It’s a longing. And it’s also a rational thought. There are many women every day who struggle to have children, and she can speak very loudly to them. They can understand this story. But you also have to come from an irrational place to understand this movie. The director, as he has seen many more screenings than I have, says women really understand this. They understand being irrational. Men don’t. Or, many men don’t. Evolved men really understand the mind of a woman because it has no gender. It’s just a soul and they can see that. I am so happy that I could connect with women because I do love what women stand for. And I’m so determined that they can get what they’re due on this planet.”

Thinking about gender equality: “There’s a writer who is a Catholic nun and a great spokeswoman. I watched an interview with her where someone asked her, “What’s going to change the world?” She said, “Nothing. Nothing is going to change the world until women are accepted the way they need to be accepted. You’re leaving out one half of the gifts, one half of the intelligence.” We are one half of this planet and yet women all over the world are second class citizens. There are many women abused in so many countries. To be a woman today is quite a place to sit.

How Hollywood treats mothers & motherhood: “The truth is, [for the longest time, no one would] buy me as a mother! Obviously you go through phases. And then I got offered every single mother role after that. They’d say, “Get her, she can play the mother.’ Because people don’t think outside the box very often. They’re just not thinking beyond. There are always these roles of the mother, whether it’s the young mother, the middle-aged mother, or the grandmother. Women are important, and they have to be in the movies. So, what are you going to do? All we have to do is all hold our hands and stand up and say “No.” We can stop having babies, we can stop having sex, everything. And then women will rule the world.

[From Elle]

I thought her previous idea of hitting pause on baby-making for the cause of equality was an interesting (albeit impossible) idea. But as soon as she starts talking about giving up sex for the cause of equality? Yeah, that’s REALLY impossible. Think of a world where every woman became celibate and only concentrated on equality and power. Well, first of all, it wouldn’t work, because there would always be the Tom Hardys of the world, capable of talking their way into any woman’s drawers and thus, the grand experiment would be over. But beyond that… it feels like men would riot in the street. They would panic. They would FREAK.

PS… HOLY CRAP she’s had some work done. These are some recent photos of Kim from a few weeks ago.

Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.