Hilary Swank is opening up about the challenges of being a young actress in a male-centric industry.
In a recent sit down with Women’s Heath, the “Million Dollar Baby” star said that when she first started acting, Hollywood “was more patriarchal than ever,” which made it difficult to fully embody her roles.
“Thankfully, it’s becoming more inclusive,” Swank said. “But when I started, it was more patriarchal than ever. And so I was playing roles that were written by men from what a female point of view is, and it wasn’t necessarily true.”
“It’s not that I don’t like being feminine,” she added. “I just don’t like being told how to be feminine.”
Swank, a two-time Oscar winner, earned her first Academy Award for her leading role in 1999’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” in which she played a transgender teen trying to…
