'Nothing is destroying this glorious thing that I've grown out of my head that my mother gave to me,' missnemmanuel said.
Absolutely, yes. I think that has happened a lot. But to be honest, I, at a very young age, realized that the industry only wants [Black women] to play certain roles. And some of them, I just outright refuse to go up for. A lot of the time, those characters I was being asked to audition for were very negative in stereotype—usually a young, Black, mixed girl who is in a state of victimhood, addiction, or violence.
Many Black actresses complain that they have to wear wigs, or get their own stylist on set to do their hair.
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