“It’s not necessarily that any of [the scripts] were bad or something like that,” she said.

“I just felt like a lot of the roles that I was reading, specifically female roles, were just like, I could have played them all as the same person and it wouldn’t have mattered, if that makes sense.“

The best way to describe it is just, like, they’d usually serve the purpose of helping the male character get to where they need to go, do what they need to do.

They don’t really have an arc of their own. And they usually feel very one-dimensional in the sense that there’s not a lot of layers to them, meaning they all seem very kind of like the same person over and over and over again.

It would have been great and it would have been fine, but I wouldn’t have grown at all.”

Zendaya picked up a nomination for best actress from the Critics Choice Awards for her performance and the film taps into moods felt everywhere during the global pandemic, as isolation has forced us all into often long bouts of introspection and even revelation.