New Delhi: Actor Shweta Tripathi, who finds showbiz "hero-driven", says writing good roles for women is the first step towards gender equality.
"Gender equality will happen when the roles are also equal. There is no point fighting for things when you don't have a standing as your co-actor," Shweta said.
"And we are very hero-driven society... Once that changes, we can expect gender equality and other changes. Pay should be decided based on the role in the project... It is getting better now," she added.
From Masaan, Haraamkhor, Zoo, 'Mirzapur' to Gone Kesh that dealt with alopecia – Shweta has stepped into a different zone with each project. She is getting lauded for essaying Dr Shreya in Amazon Prime Video's 'Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2' with conviction. The show exposes the dark underbelly of the medical world – be it black marketing of medicines or the inefficiency of the system as a whole.
Talking about her role in the series, she said: "I did a lot of workshops with doctors before we started shooting the project, and even during the shoot." One thing I did on my own was to speak to a girl who was Shreya's age. I tracked her day-to-day life – what she wore to the food she would eat because that helped me understand the world better."