Arquette is part of some of the most iconic moments in the film making. She has worked with some of the greatest film directors of our times, including Scorsese, Tarantino and Cronenberg, among others. Nevertheless, lately she’s been in the spotlight for her activist facet. After rising her voice against the powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, she became one of the main faces of the #metoo movement. Furthermore, her political and social commitment continues. Recently, American actress Jane Fonda invited Arquette to her Fire Drill Fridays – an initiative inspired by Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg to create awareness on the climate crisis –, which winded up with both actresses arrested in Washington D.C.

Born in New York and raised in Chicago, the elder of the Arquette clan is not new to being politically and socially committed. Her mother was an activist in the 1960s and she has supported the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles co-funding a clinic and a violence intervention programme namely The Alexis Project https://alexisarquette.com/. In addition, she’s been involved in several activities helping young women in India who’d been working under slavery conditions together with Mira Sorvino, who also was one of the rising voices of the #metoo movement bringing the case to the United Nations. She doesn’t think the #metoo will fundamentally change Hollywood but it’s clutching at straws. With the opportunity to meet her during the Stockholm Achievement Award gala, we briefly caught up with Arquette and took some notes from her speech to celebrate this commitment.