George Clooney believes Hollywood has failed when it comes to who is making films and being put in front of the camera in recent years.
He is currently starring in the new Coen brothers film Hail Caesar, about the film industry during the 1950s.
While the decade is viewed as the twilight of a golden age of cinema, Clooney believes people often wrongly romanticise the past.
He said: "Yes it was easier if you were white and male, but probably not easier if you were black or a woman or had polio so there are an awful lot of things that have got much better....(in terms of diversity) we have periods of time when we're really good at it.
"The United States particularly has had great moments of civil rights movements and great moments in cinema as well.
"And we've had the last couple of years when we've really truly failed, not just about nominations but who is making films and who we're putting in front of the camera."
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Hail Caesar's stars include Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton and is based on the true story of a film industry fixer whose purpose was to protect the image of the studios and its stars.
It was a time when everything was controlled by the studio system. Real life, however, was more shocking than fiction, according to Swinton.
"They did not leave any stone unturned in terms of covering up the mess of human life.
"They were doing really nasty things, covering up drive-by shootings and getting women to have abortions, really scary stuff.
"The Coens have cleaned it up a little bit in this film.
"It was a tough time but it was completely controlled, like the fixer says to my character 'The audience doesn't want to know about all the human mess, they want to believe this guy is a good guy'."
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Tatum believes that although audiences want to see more of the "mess of human life" now, things are better for stars than before.
"I think we as actors probably have a lot more freedom to do things that we want to do but there are probably some beautiful things of anonymity and you didn't have to worry about the internet and everybody taking pictures of you."
Hail Caesar opens in the UK on 4 March.
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