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'I've never had to fight:' Carey Mulligan looks striking in high-fashion shoot for ELLE... as she admits she isn't sure if she could have been a feminist activist

Published: 19:58 EST, 30 September 2015 | Updated: 06:43 EST, 1 October 2015

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She's about to hit screens in Suffragete, alongside Meryl Streep, who plays legendary feminist activist Emmeline Pankhurst.

And in a new interview - accompanied by a striking high-fashion photoshoot - in ELLE UK magazine, Carey Mulligan has aired her views about feminism.

For somebody portraying a suffragete in the period drama biopic, the 30-year-old has admitted that she's not sure if she would have been one back in the day, because she doesn't know the hardships the woman of that time really felt.

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Sharing her views: Carey Mulligan looked gorgeous in a fashion-forward shoot in ELLE UK magazine, as she also discussed her feelings about feminism and the suffragetes

'You'd like to think that you would [but] you're a product of your time,' she confessed.

'I can express my opinion, but I've never had to fight, to stand up for anything. And the notion of walking into a gallery with a knife and destroying a piece of art, that seems unbelievably terrifying to me.

'And that's just one, tame example of what they did.'

The star, who is hotly-tipped for next year's awards season in her role as Maud Watts in the movie, also complained about the use of a term she hates, defining female characters as 'strong'.

Quirky look: The 30-year-old's slim figure was dwarfed by oversized garments in the directional editorial, which features in ELLE's annual feminism issue

'You don't say to men: 'You played another really strong man.' The idea that women are inherently weak – and we've identified the few strong ones to tell stories about – is mad,' she told the magazine, as part of their annual feminism issue.

'A lot of the stuff I read is playing so-and-so's wife, so-and-so's girlfriend. That's not where the story is: I want to play him.'

She went on, frankly adding: 'Someone asked me yesterday, 'Do you think it would be a better world if it were run by women?' And the answer is no, I think it would be a better world if it were run equally – we're still so far from that.'

Carey's character Maud in Suffragete - which also stars Helena Bonham Carter - is a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the UK's growing suffragette movement led by Pankhurst.

Big role: Carey stars as Maud in Suffragette, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the UK's growing suffragette movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst

Hollywood heavyweights: Helena Bonham Carter (left) and Meryl Streep (right) also appear in the hotly-anticipated movie, as Edith Ellyn and Emmeline Pankhurst respectively

Maud becomes a foot soldier for the cause alongside women from all walks of life, who are eventually forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives.

Talented trio Carey, Meryl and Helena lead the charge as leaders and foot soldiers of the women's right to vote fight in the late 19th and early 20th century.

One of the most prominent figures in the suffrage movement, Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, a militant organisation dedicated to 'deeds not words.'

Along with her open and honest interview, Carey posed in a series of photos wearing high-end and very fashion forward clothing, including an oversized coat and wide-legged trousers in one particularly stylised image.

'I've never had to fight': The British actress was open about her views on feminism, admitted that she hasn't had to endure the hardships of the suffragetes in the late 19th and early 20th century

Insecurities: The star also confessed to feeling 'embarrassed' over criticism when she was cast as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby

Meanwhile, Academy Award-nominee Carey also opened up about her private life, which she shares with husband Marcus Mumford of folk rock group Mumford & Sons, adding that she's excited for them to become parents in the future.

'I've always wanted to be a mother. I love what I do, but I'm excited for this next phase of my life,' she divulged.

The star, who has won critical acclaim for her roles in movies such as Drive, An Education and Shame, and who is also set to appear in the big-screen version of Far From The Madding Crowd, also revealed her vulnerable side.

She was faced with a barrage of criticism a few years ago when taking on the role of literary icon Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.

And it was something that really got to her, as she admitted: 'Playing Daisy was the first time I felt physically intimidated by a role, I remember reading horrendous sh** [online] when I got cast, people saying, "She's not pretty enough to play Daisy."

'I felt so embarrassed. I thought, "They're right, I shouldn't do it" – all those mad insecurities that you have.'

The full interview appears in the November issue of ELLE, which goes on sale October 1.