A night devoted to celebrating the TV legacy of Barbra Streisand was not without her reflections on the #MeToo movement.
Kicking off the opening night of the annual PaleyFest at Hollywood's Dolby Theater on Friday, Streisand commented on how the fight for gender equality is currently at a fever pitch.
"We're in a strange time now in terms of men and women and the pendulum swinging this way and that way but it's going to have to come to the centre," she told Ryan Murphy, the veteran TV producer who conducted the Q&A with Streisand at PaleyFest.
Over the course of an evening heavy on misty, water-coloured memories of her days as both a performer and producer of TV going back to the 1960s, Streisand also revealed to Murphy that she herself was never the target of sexual harassment.
"I wasn't like those pretty girls with those nice little noses," she recalled. "Maybe that's why. I have no idea."
Streisand also revealed that she didn't perform on TV for many years until resurfacing on HBO in 1994 because of crippling stage fright. It was only after "a lot of work on myself" that she overcame her phobia, with some help from a "a little pill called Inderal. 10 milligrams."
Of the beta blocker medication she remarked, "When you have a pounding heart, you can't sing, it affects your vocal cords."
