I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.
There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.
The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.