Fresh off her dual role in Predator: Badlands, Elle Fanning is advocating for genre movies to get more awards recognition.

“Just because it’s genre, I don’t think that people should be biased. I don’t agree with that: a film is a film!” Fanning, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, told THR.

“Even with Demi [Moore] last year with The Substance, that was so incredibly deserved for her to get acknowledged for that film. Everything Everywhere All at Once, that was so bold and new. So we are broadening it and I think that that’s important. Or I feel like we are pushing towards opening it up a little bit more.”

Fanning continued, “It’s important to cultivate creativity and young directors with their ideas, and to have that be noticed. There shouldn’t be a mathematical equation for what is the proper thing to do. I hope it continues to change.”

She added, “When I go into roles, I don’t look at it differently. I am playing two characters in Predator, and I saw it as a real acting challenge. Then you put on top of it the physical challenge, it’s almost harder. I’m strapped to him back to back. We’re in wires and harnesses — but then also you have to deliver the comedic timing, the rhythm.”

In theaters now, Fanning stars in Predator: Badlands alongside Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.

Set in the future on a remote planet, a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) directs from a script by Patrick Aison (Prey) and Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters, No One Will Save You).

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Fanning quickly finds her stride as the surprising moral compass, but also impresses with her complete opposite turn as Tessa.”