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In 2012, Pitch Perfect, scripted by Kay Cannon, gave us Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick among an all-female posse and, with this year’s sequel, made over $300m worldwide. In 2011, Bridesmaids proved that gross-out comedies were as popular with female audiences as with men – and comediennes were delivering the laughs. Why? It has partly been a question of colonising and succeeding in new terrain. View image in fullscreen Sandra Bullock says she will only consider roles written for men. “But it’s not simply a question of film-makers forcing more diverse female roles on the public it’s that the public are more ready to accept it.” “We’ve seen a huge cultural shift,” says Alison Owen, producer of this year’s Suffragette. Meanwhile, over in comedy, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig will deliver a gender-reversed Ghostbusters remake, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as the leads, and Chris Hemsworth playing their secretary.

“I don’t want the male roles to change but I will go after a role if I think a woman can play it,” she said. The character was inspired by Bill Clinton’s consultant James Carville, and originally written for a man, but Bullock convinced the film’s producer, George Clooney, that it belonged to her. Sandra Bullock has said she will only consider roles written for men and in January, she will play political strategist Jane Bodine in Our Brand Is Crisis. In drug-war thriller Sicario, Emily Blunt won critical acclaim in her lead role as FBI agent Kate Macer, even though the makers admitted they’d come under pressure to rewrite the role for a man. A big 2015 Hollywood success story was Mad Max: Fury Road – the big-budget remake of Mel Gibson’s iconic franchise took $375m at the box office, but it was Charlize Theron’s Furiosa who took the plaudits.

The films are the latest evidence that, at last, the range of female roles in the cinema is significantly expanding.

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