Amy Huberman has opened up on gender roles in acting and how we must be conscious of it.
The Dubliner is one of the most well-known faces in the country having starred in the hit TV show The Clinic and now takes on the emotional role of Tara in RTE’s Striking Out.
Speaking about gender roles in the industry, Amy admitted that she’s “hopeful that the tide is turning.”
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The actress revealed that what annoys her about talking about female roles in films and TV is the backlash from people.
“What annoys me is the backlash, because people say, ‘We’ve heard you all talk about this before,’ but that’s not good enough. Nothing will change without conversation and debate,” she told Image magazine.
“When I was working on Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope, there was a female writer, female producers and a predominantly female cast.
“With Striking Out, it’s predominantly female producers, a female director.
“On the next job, there may be loads of men, but not by design, but because that’s a story they needed to tell.”
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Amy also admitted that she thinks we need to be careful not to forget about men in the acting world, that they can be given less rounded roles too.
“I’ve seen a difference in auditioning too, where the female parts are more rounded,” she explained.
“When I started, it was all about going in for the ‘girlfriend role,’ and that’s great, as long as you have a proper person to play, because the same can happen to men, but you should feel like you’re playing a human being, and it’s considered.
“When I was in the States recently, I saw a big poster for a female show and thought, that’s great, but immediately wondered if we were at the turning point, where in ten years time, we’ll be saying, ‘Remember when there was nothing for women and we were all talking about it?'”
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The mother-of-two also revealed that she thinks it’s bizarre that there is a culture created where women don’t have a voice.
“There’s also a joy in seeing how much men enjoy honest female portrayals as well.
“It’s bizarre to me that we’ve created a culture where we don’t have a voice; that doesn’t make sense when there are people who want to hear it and people who want to tell it.
“If the story is honest and credible, then people will have an appetite for it because they’ll relate to it,” she added.
