United Kingdom, Feb. 17 -- Olivia Colman thinks "people are too nervous" about gender and sexuality.

The 52-year-old actress appears in Sophie Hyde's new queer drama Jimpa - which explores ideas of queerness and parenthood between members of the LGBTQ+ community across generations - and she hopes the film can make the topic more "mainstream" and accepted.

She told Variety: "There's an awful lot of mistrust and hatred about things that there is no need to be hateful about.

"I love the fact that this film is about learning how to listen to each other without throwing the toys out the crib.

"I don't understand how you can get so upset about it when someone is different. It would be great if films about queer stories were mainstream.

"It...