What are the toughest challenges facing female actors in todays Hollywood?
Scarcities of great parts, because of the way films are written today. Generally, it’s the ensemble comedy with seven decent guy roles and one female role or the big-star male action star role with an ingénue female role tacked on. If you’re an established female actress, you really can’t take those roles, because it’s considered going backwards with your career. Mostly, the female roles are greatly underwritten in comparison to the roles offered to men. Talk about your first film – Amongst Friends. You served as associate producer and starred in that film. How did it come to fruition? I was working at Tribeca Productions and Rob Weiss, the director of the film, sent me the script and asked for my help on it. We sent it around to a few places and tried to raise some money for it. I ended up coming on board for the project and helped them cast it. I didn’t think I was going to star in the film because Rob wanted a cute, bubbly cheerleader type for the role of Laura, and he thought that
