The 18-year-old actress - who stars as the courageous Cassie Sullivan in upcoming sci-fi film The 5th Wave - told Digital Spy exclusively: "Hollywood really needs to address diversity in Hollywood.
"We're all so focused on getting more women in film that we're not even talking about the racial issue of getting more diversity in film. It's a much bigger issue because it's just not happening. It's just not a reality."
Commenting on the progression of gender equality in the industry, the young star continued: "First and foremost it needs to be heavily tackled because we've already made so much lead way with women in film, it's now time to get more black women in film, Latino women, Asian women.
The Oscar nominations were criticised* for an almost total lack of black, female and LGBT names in this year's main categories - despite 2015 being a progressive year for black and female filmmakers .
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