I Do Have A Very Chill -

Any Movie You See, If Tom Cruise Is In An Action Movie Or Whatever It Is, The Avengers, There's Going To Be A Kick-ass Female Character. Usually One. And There's A Term For This, But I Don't Know What It Is. But Someone's Coined A Term Where There's One Female Character Who's Incredibly Tough And Strong And Just As Good As The Guys At Whatever It Is They’re Doing, And Usually Wearing Black, Skin-tight Clothes, And [she] Has No Personality Whatsoever, And Is Not Funny.

I Always Want A Challenge. My Whole Career Has Been Based On Trying To Avoid Female Characters That Don't Get To Do Anything. And It's Really Hard To Avoid Those.

I Would Say How Important It Is That We Stop Teaching Kids, From The Beginning, That Boys Are More Important Than Girls. It's The 21st Century, You Know, Let's Go Here. We Have To Show Kids That Boys And Girls Share The Sandbox Equally And Do Equally Interesting Things. We're Teaching Kids Something That We Have To Try To Get Rid Of Later On. Why Not Just Stop Filling Them With Unconscious Gender Bias?

[my Aunt] Took Me To My First Play, Too, Which Was Dinner Theater. I Don't Know If They Have That In England, But You Eat A Dinner While You Watch A Play. And She Ordered A Glass Of Wine. I Was Like, "oh My God. This Is, Like, The Most Sophisticated Thing I Have Ever Done."

Because I Had Some Roles That Resonated With Women, I Immediately Noticed That There Were Far More Male Characters Than Female Characters In What We're Showing Little Kids In The 21st Century, Which Was Stunning To Me. But I Couldn't Find Anybody Else Who Noticed.