By Hassan Sanusi

She said: ‘I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately, and when I look around the room at the women who are in here and I think about the performances that I’ve watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy, sometimes not. Sometimes honourable, sometimes not.
‘And what I think is new is the wealth or roles for actual women in television and in film. That’s what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary, and it’s what’s turning me on.’

