Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.
From Ruth Negga
I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.
We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.
People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.
I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.
The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.
I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.
We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.
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