Actress and activist realamberheard spoke openly about the limits put on women in Hollywood in an interview with her friend, TV host amandadecadenet.
“On the other side of the coin, you can be someone we find sexually attractive, and in that category, you can get a lot of splash, you can get a lot of play, you can get a lot of attention. You will work until maybe 30, 35, but it’s incredibly limiting because you can’t play anything else other than sexy. You are dependent. You are in a reactionary posture, and you are there to be a sexual bounce board to the male character you’re playing opposite," the actress continued.
Heard added that these roles are also typically limited to “white [women] between the ages of 18 to 30” as is. According to a 2017 study by the 74% of major female characters in the top 100 grossing films were white, 14% were Black, 6% were Latina, 4% were Asian, and 2% were of another race or ethnicity.“In the other category, you can be smart, witty, funny, kind, cruel, all these other number of things...but you’re a character,” Heard explained. “You are a best friend.”“For every role for me, there are three for my male counterparts, and that is coming from a leading lady position, an ingenue role,” she said.
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