Alicia Vikander thinks society's outlook on women has "really progressed"

She told Yahoo! Movies: "I think that’s really about the times that we’re in and that society has changed. To be honest with me, with Angelina Jolie’s films that meant a lot to me. I hadn’t really seen a lot of female action star leading a film like that up on the screen, sadly that was how rare it was for us growing up ... Nowadays, you don’t want one-dimensional female characters, you really want depth and you want to get to know them; you want to be on their journey. I also think that [if] you ask, both young women and men, what they find maybe, aspiring, cool, attractive, even sexy, you would get a very different answer nowadays, which is just cool because it shows we’ve really progressed."

Meanwhile, the 29-year-old actress previously revealed she wants to make sure her own movie projects involve more women.

She said: "I looked back and I did four films in a row, where I was a lead in all of them, but there wasn't a single scene where I was with another woman. Which is nuts, really. So I really want to make sure that I always have that in the back of my mind [when I am producing projects] ... I started making films in English seven years ago and I think even now there are a lot more options out there. People are talking more about it and people are more aware, and I think that is the way towards change."