She may embody a series of fiercely independent female characters on-screen, but Claire Foy is not a fan of the term “strong woman”.

The actor plays the Queen in Netflix series The Crown, along with Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming adaptation of Stieg Larsson classic The Girl in the Spider’s Web and Janet Armstrong, wife of Neil Armstrong, in a new biopic about the moon walker.

“I have absolutely no interest in portraying what other people think of as strong. It’s a way of making women more acceptable in a male world, and I am just not on board with that,” she tells the Sydney Morning Herald, in an interview this weekend.

“I don’t think women are crying out to see strong women; I think we know we are all strong but we’re just crying out to see women on screen at all!”

Why Claire Foy hates the term “strong woman”