'Dark Phoenix's Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain Talk Importance of Strong Female Characters

The Queen in the North, Sophie Turner, is swapping out her Game of Thrones character for the even more powerful mutant Jean Grey in the new X-Men film, Dark Phoenix.

Dark Phoenix is the first movie in the X-Men franchise to have both its main protagonist and antagonist portrayed by women. Turner reprises her character Jean Grey who is manipulated by a shapeshifter played by Jessica Chastain. And the real-life power duo have some thoughts about the importance of strong female characters in movies and TV.

The co-stars talked to E! News on how there should be more leading ladies in the things we watch.

"Growing up, I didn't really feel like...I'd seen a superhero movie with a really strong female at the helm," Turner said. "Now, it's so great that young girls and young boys and your daughter can grow up and watch this movie and look at it and say, 'Oh wow, what a strong, well-rounded, accurate representation of a woman."

"Also, all women are strong and all women are incredible and powerful," Chastain added. "It'll be nice, when we get to the point too when we make these films, that we don't have to say, 'It's great to see a strong female character, well, it's just normal.'"

"Yeah," Turner agreed. "It's just a character."

Recently, Chastain has spoken out about her co-star's Thrones character, regarding her questionable words about being powerful. In the Season 8 episode "The Last of the Starks," Sansa explains to The Hound that if she didn't go through all that she did, she wouldn't have become the strong woman she was now. Her explanation was taken by many fans, including Chastain, to mean that Sansa needed to go through both physical and emotional abuse by men. Chastain argued that abuse was not a tool to make someone stronger.

You can see Turner and Chastain together when Dark Phoenix hits theaters June 7.