Actress Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about the 2015 leak of her nude photos – and she says it’s time for her to “take something back”.

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in an interview for the Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence described the leak as “violating on a sexual level” – and that it had even prevented her from taking on “sexy or sexual” roles.

“I haven’t done anything sexy or sexual…since 2014, when I got my pictures hacked,” she said. “I just thought ‘I’ll never do that again, I’ll never share that part of myself ever since it got shared against my will’. And then when I said yes to Red Sparrow, I felt like I was taking something back.”

“I would much prefer my whole house to have been invaded,” she continued. “That’s what’s so scary about electronic [things]. I have such fear with my phone and my computer and electronics. It’s taking somebody’s intellectual property but also my body. It was violating on a sexual level.”

The interview also touched on abuse: “I don’t know a woman who hasn’t been touched by some sort of abuse”. But Lawrence also describes her “excitement” by “the change that’s going to come from [#MeToo].”

“The rule book is being rewritten right now,” she said. “Men need more social awareness. But this comes down to equality, and until all women in every job are paid equally for the same amount of work, how are we ever going to be thought of as equals? As long as there is one group of humans that is overruling another one, there’s going to be abuse, [and] why would we be thought of as equals?”

“My political passion has almost turned into an obsession. I mean, I don’t think you ever do feel settled, [but] as soon as you feel settled with your home and your personal life, you’re looking at the world and going, “How in the hell do I fix this? What do we do?”

Jennifer Lawrence says she's "taking something back" after nude photo leak