Daryl Hannah has criticised the film industry for being "male-dominated".
The Sense8 actress said she believes that Hollywood is exploitative because female stars are cast to be male fantasy figures in films.
She told The Guardian: "It’s a male-dominated industry. It’s just a bunch of guys saying: ‘Let’s make the girl younger, and sexy, and hot.’ So, yeah, of course it’s exploitative. And that’s unfortunate because it has the potential to be really transformative in expressing the human condition.”
The 54-year-old actress added that she was not always comfortable with the fame that came with her work, explaining: "I always loved the process, but I was very uncomfortable with the other aspects of the job - the publicity and all that stuff.
"And I didn’t anticipate that, because I was such a fan of 30s and 40s cinema: I thought it would all be so glamorous. ‘Oh, I’ll be getting out of a car and walking into Grauman’s Chinese theatre, won’t that be so wonderful?’
"I didn’t realise that, because I was a self-conscious, picked-on kid, when people were looking at me, I’d feel they were making fun of me."
