Screen star Freya Mavor claims the film industry is behind the times because women are not getting a look-in when it comes to directing major movies.
The Skins actress claims she has barely worked on any projects that haven’t had a man in charge.
Freya, 25, whose latest movie, The Keeper, launched this weekend, said: “I’d love to work with more female directors. Some of my favourites are women, people like Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold.
“But I’ve been working for ten years nearly and it is quite shocking how few directors I’ve worked with have been female.
“So it would be interesting as an actor to see more of a change within the industry in terms of a balance.”
Edinburgh-raised Freya made her breakthrough as delinquent Mini McGuinness in the E4 teen drama Skins.
She has also been the face of Scots clothing company Pringle and starred in the BBC historical drama The White Queen. She was also in the recent BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders.
In her new film, directed by Marcus Rosenmuller, she plays the English wife of Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war who went on to play in goal for Manchester City and famously won the FA Cup in 1956 with a broken neck.
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