The Women of 'Insurgent' Talk About the Franchise's Unprecedented Female Empowerment

As far as major movie franchises go, The Divergent Series has the most woman power of them all.  Not only is the story built around an irrepressibly strong heroine in Tris (Shailene Woodley) in a dystopian future ruled by iron-willed villainess Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the new second installment, Insurgent, introduces two more women in charge: diplomatic head of Amity Johanna (Octavia Spencer), and the rebellious Factionless leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts).

Name another major movie series where all of the people in positions of power are women. Go ahead, we’ll wait…

"Both the hero and the villain are played by girls, and that’s cool!" Winslet told Yahoo Movies. "That’s unusual, unique, and that’s cool." See what else Winslet and her co-stars had to say about the film’s unprecedented female empowerment in the video above.

Insurgent is now in theaters.