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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.