Tessa Thompson is sick of "dumb, male writer" using one particular to describe women in Hollywood scripts, and it's not what you'd think.
The star, who is set to play Valkyrie in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, told the LA Times: "There's one word I hate in all scripts in Hollywood at the moment in describing women, and that is the word 'badass.'"
"That word has just crept into every script that is pushed around this town now," she said.
"It's terrible, because it doesn't mean anything. It's a dumb male writer's way of saying, 'Ah, uh, she's like, she, uh, she's tough.' Then straight after that it's like, 'She's badass, but she's got a beauty about her. And she's sexy. Unconsciously sexy.'"
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