“Mission: Impossible-Fallout” star Rebecca Ferguson wants us to stop talking about “strong roles for women,” and see characters as people, not genders.

“It’s very hard to discuss what I want for women in film,” she explained. “What I think is important, for me, is I want to read a script and I don’t want to see the woman stand out as a woman or the man stand out as a man. I want to see story and I want the character I said before to have purpose.”

Ferguson reprises British spy Ilsa Faust in “Mission: Impossible-Fallout,” and she trained hard for the intense action scenes.
“I do the fighting by myself,” she said. “It’s hard work. It’s intense. There’s a lot to learn. It’s literally like learning different recipes because when you learn a fighting sequence, you don’t learn it from A to B, done. You actually learn small moves and then a couple days before they put everything together and then you better know it.”

And if you thought her action scenes in the movie were intense, Ferguson will remind everyone being a badass is genderless. Here’s hoping this breakthrough in badassery sparks a trend for everyone in the film industry.

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