Her Star Wars character is hidden behind a suit of armour, but Gwendoline Christie says Captain Phasma is "a very progressive female character."
Christie plays Captain Phasma, a First Order officer and the first female villain in the Star Wars franchise. She wears head to toe silver armour that isn't sculpted to her female figure.
"We know very little about her at this stage, but what I think people are drawn to is that this is a very progressive female character," Christie told Entertainment Weekly.
"We see Captain Phasma, and we see the costume from head to toe, and we know that it is a woman. But we are used to, in our media, connecting to female characters via the way that they look, from the way they are made flesh," said Christie.
