Thandiwe Newton Apologizes To Darker-Skinned Women For Taking “Their Roles, Their Men”

Thandiwe Newton is getting candid.

The actress is opening up about the backlash, privilege, and guilt she has experienced as a fair-skinned Black actress in the film industry.

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In an interview with The Associated Press, she discussed the impact of prejudice within her film ‘God’s Country’ and opened up about the prejudice she has received.

“I now realize that my internalized prejudice was stopping me from feeling like I could play this role when it’s precisely that prejudice that I’ve received. It doesn’t matter that it’s from African American women more than anyone else. I received prejudice. Anyone who’s received oppression and prejudice feels this character.”

“I’ve wanted so desperately to apologize every day to darker-skinned actresses. To say, ‘I’m sorry that I’m the one chosen.’ My Mama looks like you.”

“It’s been very painful to have women who look like my mom feel like I’m not representing them. That I’m taking from them. Taking their men, taking their work, taking their truth.”

Thandiwe Newton plays a woman confronting white hunters in the Sundance film “God’s Country.” She says she’s struggled with a different type of prejudice in the U.S. as a light-skinned Black British actor. pic.twitter.com/mAccJ9rA5s

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) February 2, 2022

Newton is billed in the movie with the traditional Zulu name Thandiwe as opposed to the Hollywood-friendly “Thandie.”

She also recently revealed to Indiewire, that ‘God’s Country’ that this role defines who she wants to be as an actress and that it is finally a role that is meaningful.

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