Stars Wars star Felicity Jones railed against a “profound gender imbalance” in Hollywood in a recent interview with Marie Claire.
Jones, who landed her first on-screen role at the age of 12 and caught her Hollywood break in 2011 when she starred in the indie romance, Like Crazy, told the magazine that before the #MeToo movement, the gender imbalance on set was so profound, it felt “like walking onto a building site.”
Young actresses “could get easily pigeonholed,” Jones said, adding, “There would often be descriptions relating to appearance rather than character in scripts, but I have noticed people are more conscious of that.”
The Inferno star went on to say that she believes the entertainment industry feels more balanced now, adding that a rise in intimacy
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