Hollywood has been under fire lately with the ACLU's report on gender inequality coupled with Patricia Arquette's acceptance speech at the 2015 Oscars. Even Hollywood legend Meryl Streep has been vocal on the issue.

The heavy-hitters have been coming in droves to speak out against the issue of the pay-gap, as well as the bleak list of opportunities women have been getting for more advanced roles in the filmmaking process, such as directing or even producing the films. That includes Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, who are currently starring in the Netflix series "Grace and Frankie."

At Cannes this year, a Calvin Klein party had many women that have made a big impact in film as the guests of honor. Reuters got a few comments from the film festival's headlining women.

Rachel Weisz, Emily Blunt and Isabelle Huppert all spoke with Reuters and expressed the same sentiment: They wished the added attention to women in film would put an end to the discriminatory practice in the industry.

"It's very sad that such an event as tonight has to happen, but we do need to draw attention to women in film," Weisz told Reuters. "We're just very disproportionately represented in terms of directors and writers - people in charge of the story-telling. So we just need more films from women's point of view."

In the movie "Edge of Tomorrow," Emily Blunt played an action heroine who was proportionally matched with her co-star Tom Cruise.

"It's always a good thing to push people's minds that women can be tough and cool and lethal," Blunt told Reuters. "I do feel things are changing. Women are proving themselves time and time again to have an amazing tap of what works in cinema."

Isabelle Huppert also supported Blunt's opinion with the obvious need of female importance for their roles in film to keep expanding.

"I think women are already on a good path. It's good to anchor it, the movies to be better and better, to give better roles to women and to give better opportunities for women to direct movies and to write scripts," Huppert told Reuters.

According to New York Daily News, Blunt also expressed outrage toward the "no flats" policy the Cannes event enforced for the festival, sending away women from their premieres if they were not in high-heels.

"Everyone should wear flats, to be honest, at the best of times," Blunt said. "You kind of think that there's these new waves of equality."