Reese Witherspoon has long been firmly in the corner of women in Hollywood. Her latest project, in which she’s both starring and producing, is new HBO comedy-drama Big Little Lies – and she’s surrounded herself with powerful women in her quest to bring the show to the small screen.

But Witherspoon says that strong, majority-female teams are still a rarity in Hollywood. Speaking at the Television Critics’ Association press tour over the weekend, the 40-year-old actor spoke candidly about the film industry’s so-called ‘Smurfette Syndrome’ – a reference to the iconic cartoon with just one female character.

“For 25 years, I’ve been the only woman on set, so I had no other women to talk to,” she said, according to Vanity Fair. “They call it ‘Smurfette Syndrome’, because she’s got a hundred Smurfs around her and she’s the only girl.”

Reese Witherspoon opens up about Hollywood’s “Smurfette Syndrome”