The debate about women in Hollywood is one that isn't going away soon, with some people thinking that while women might have made some progress, the #MeToo campaign has highlighted widespread issues that aren't going away.
Claire Foy, who is appearing in The Girl in the Spider's Web, is keeping a positive attitude about how things are changing for the better.
Speaking to Digital Spy, the former star of The Crown said: "The industry has changed so much since I started, dear God.
"The fact that the snobbery about TV and films is gone, completely. The fact that there are parts for women. A lot of my work was TV because there just weren't parts for people like me.
"There weren't parts for normal women at all. You either had to be a supermodel or a real character actress, there was no room for anyone in between, really.
"It's changed hugely. In the past year, it's changed in the sense that I feel that the days of women being talked down to, even if they'd been working for 30 years in the industry, are gone and I hope eventually that is across all industries.
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"The fact that we should be allowed to have an opinion and a voice and be heard because we're half the human race, so we deserve it really."
The star also revealed to us that she had a "huge doubt" about taking on the role of Lisbeth Salander, although we think that she did a pretty fine job.
The Girl in the Spider's Web is out in US cinemas now, and opens in UK cinemas on November 21.
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