Natalie Portman wants more female leads in movies

‘Black Swan’ star Natalie Portman is disappointed that there is a lack of movies in Hollywood that feature women in leading roles. "As a female audience member, it's difficult for me to watch (all) these movies where women don't exist.

There are so many movies where it's 20 men and no female character, or there's a female character that’s, like, the wife on the phone.”

“I'm not interested in watching it," she said. While she “understands” that it is a “legitimate” point of view, she said, “I'm glad to get insight into how straight white male minds work. It’s that that we’re not having other points of view.”

"It's hard because desire is the language of cinema. And because it's been so male-dominated, the story of cinema is male desire and a female object of desire,” she said.

"We don't have the expression of female desire. We become the object of desire, not the subject. Women have been made to feel guilty or bad for desiring food, or sex, or power," Portman said.