Looks like hanging out with Billie Jean King made a mark on Andrea Riseborough. The “Battle of the Sexes” actress is speaking out against sexism in her industry and taking a stand by launching a female-led production company.
“There’s a very narrow version of women in film, who are either chaste, pure, and irrepressibly good, or are hyper sexualized. (They’re) just very boring stereotypes of women,” the “Bloodline” alumna told Rogue Magazine, per KGMI.
Instead of passively waiting for the right role to come, Riseborough decided to take destiny into her own hands by starting her own company. “I was motivated by there not being any female producers or female storytellers, but also because I wanted to create work and set up an environment in which I can help them do that and support other women who work on what they want to see,” she explained.
It’s great to see another actress starting a company, and there are many female storytellers and producers out there who will be happy to work with her.
Riseborough played King’s lover and hairdresser in “Battle of the Sexes.” Emma Stone starred in the 2017 biopic of the trailblazing tennis star.
You can catch Riseborough in Christina Choe’s “Nancy” and “The Death of Stalin,” both in theaters now. The former centers on an unstable woman who becomes convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and the latter is a political satire that takes place in 1953 after Joseph Stalin’s death.
