Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.
What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.
I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.
I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'