Goldie Hawn has said that she thinks more women are "allowed" to be funny on screen these days. The Oscar winner, who is soon to be on screen playing Amy Schumer's mother in Snatched told The Sunday Times that she was pleased times had changed.

"A funny woman is not sexy to most men," she said, replying to a question asking if it was true that attractive women weren't allowed to get the biggest laughs. "But not any more. That is changing."

Hawn paid tribute to Schumer for changing the way that women are able to be laughed at.

"We keep inching along, two steps forward, one step back," she said. "Young men today are very different, but some of the old dogs still have that lack of regard for a women who has power."

And the 71-year-old, who is the daughter of a Jewish mother and Presbyterian father, revealed that she never thought of herself as pretty while growing up.

"Neither of us felt we had that pretty thing," she revealed, while talking of herself and Schumer. "We both grew up doubting ourselves."