I had a meeting a while back with a big group of women - actors and producers and writers - who are all ethnic minorities and we just aired what we thought was happening and why, and someone said that, as a black or mixed race actress, you feel like you're renting space instead of carving out a career. But I'm just going to get on with it.

I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

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