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Jodie Foster has aired her frustration with ‘lazy’ male film writers who rely on rape as a plot device for female characters.

The director, who won an Oscar playing a rape survivor in The Accused (1998), was speaking at Variety and Kering’s Women In Motion event at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

“One of my biggest pet peeves as an actor was always that whenever a writer, a male writer, was searching for motivation for a woman, they would just always go to rape,” she said.

“It was like, I wonder why she’s a box of tears? Oh, she was raped. I wonder why she’s having trouble with her boss? Well, its because she was raped.

“For some reason men saw that as this incredible dramatic thing. Well, that’s easy, I can just pluck that one out of the sky and apply it to her.

“Because they were uninterested in any kind of complex merging with a female character.”