I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because it's just part of our culture. I've never experienced explicit, overt, confrontational sexism personally.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I just think that if we stopped playing on the superficial level and concentrated on women in real crises throughout the world, it would be a better thing if we all stood together about the important stuff and stopped getting distracted by superficial things.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.