She has played numerous characters from the villainous, Fish Mooney on Fox's Batman origins TV series "Gotham" to an empowering erotic club owner in "Magic Mike XXL," Jada Pinkett Smith is no stranger to taking on strong female characters on screen. Smith, 43-years-old, told Reuters how she helped create her role in "XXL" as the film's feminist force, and whether her husband, actor Will Smith, will see the film as it comes out in theaters this week.

In the interview, she was asked about how the movie re-invents the ideal of male strippers, she said, "Somebody brought up a really good point that usually male strippers would be dressed up as police officers, firemen, so (male entertainment) has this very authoritative feel, instead of getting to understand what are those desires and fantasies that women want to explore with their imagination? So you would hope that maybe strip clubs would get more on that page." She also talks about her collaboration with Magic Mike director Greg Jacobs and screenwriter Reid Carolin in developing her character. Smith said that it was a beautiful exchange of ideas back and forth between her, Jacobs, and Carolin.

Jada revealed that she used to adopt the role of the sensible one in the relationship and sit back and watch Will mess around. But having starred with Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello and the rest of the Magic Mike XXL cast as the stripper troupe's new manager, she has changed her attitude.

Jada explained: "It really taught me how to be more playful with my husband. But after Magic Mike, Jada said she's "learned to enjoy that playfulness in him much more and participate in it versus, like, tolerate it". Jada revealed at first she tried to fall back and not get in the way of the antics of the male-dominated cast. A friend had told her that women don't know how to share space, that they dominate space, and she took it to heart.