She’s one of the most in-demand actresses on the planet, starring in nine major movies in the last two years alone.

But like Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon before her, Alicia Vikander has also set up her own film production company – and tells Stylist.co.uk that her ambition is to create more female-driven movies.

Vikander announced the launch of her production company, Vikarious, in May. Speaking to Stylist.co.uk while promoting her new film Jason Bourne, in which she plays a CIA operative, Vikander said that the lack of realistic female characters in Hollywood movies is “definitely something that I want to bring awareness to”.

The Oscar-winner says she once made five films in a row in which her character didn't have a single conversation with another woman, and says that she believes a lack of women writers in Hollywood is partly behind the problem.

“We need female writers,” she tells Stylist.co.uk. “I would probably consider that myself, that women know women better.”

“It’s about equality”: Alicia Vikander on the need for more female filmmakers